Duckett, J. (2001) Bureaucrats in business, Chinese-style: the lessons of market reform and state entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China. World Development, 29(1), pp. 23-37. (doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00083-8)
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Abstract
In the 1990s, parts of the state bureaucracy in China have been setting up new profit-seeking, risk-taking businesses. Some of these businesses are entrepreneurial rather than rent-seeking, and are an unplanned and unanticipated development in China's market-oriented economic reforms. What are the lessons of this phenomenon for the developing world? State entrepreneurialism may create problems such as reduced government control over departmental finance, loss of state assets, and uneven provision of services. It is nevertheless an innovative solution to the politically difficult problem of bureaucratic restructuring, and confounds the development orthodoxy, fostered by neoliberalism, that states will resist market reform. It also demonstrates that to understand fully the politics of market reform we must research the activities of subcentral state bureaucrats as well as central leaders and policymakers.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Duckett, Professor Jane |
| Authors: | Duckett, J. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics |
| Journal Name: | World Development |
| ISSN: | 0305-750X |
| ISSN (Online): | 1873-5991 |
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