Remaking the Chinese Leviathan

Dali L. Yang is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is also the author of Calamity and Reform in China (Stanford University Press, 1996).

"This book gives readers an optimistic view of political development and the state's capacity to adapt to and steer new challenges in China, and what this implies for future development in China. It substantially furthers our understanding of the changes and transformations developing within the Chinese bureaucracy."—The China Journal "Readers will profit from the fine-grained analysis in this significant, carefully researched monograph."—CHOICE "In what is the most comprehensive review of Chinese bureaucratic reform in any language to date, Yang details a blizzard of laws and regulations that have been adopted since the mid-1990s . . . "—World Policy Journal "Dali Yangs new book is a stimulating work that challenges many of the received views on governance and politics in China. . . . It is a major contribution to the study of the Chinese political system."—Pacific Affairs "Yangs volume provides the most detailed and comprehensive account of the Chinese states transition from an incoherent mix of rival corrupt agencies held loosely together by the CCP to an increasingly integrated central state apparatus. Remaking the Chinese Leviathan moves the China field forward by engaging in a multidimensional analysis of Chinas state-building efforts over the past decade....In summary, Yangs volume is both informative and challenging."—Governance "...Yang Dali has produced a pioneering overview of the changing parameters of the central state as it shoulders the new and important functions of regulating a fledgling market..."—China Review International

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Figures and Tables000 A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Names, and Measures000 Map of the PeopleAes Republic of China000 Abbreviations000 @toc2:1Economic Transition and the Problem of Governance in China000 2Market Transition and the Remaking of the Administrative State000 Appendix: The Composition of the State Council, 1992 and 2003000 3Institutional Development and the Quest for Fiscal Prowess and Market Order000 4The Smuggling Crisis and the Leveling of the Economic Playing Field000 5Administrative Rationalization and the Reorientation of Government Behavior000 6Market Incentives and the Disciplining of Government Discretion000 7Institutional Reforms and the Struggle against Corruption000 8Institutions of Horizontal Accountability and Good Governance: Legislative Oversight and Government Audit000 9Conclusions @toc4:Abbreviations for Journals, Newspapers, and Other Sources Notes Bibliography Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: