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Policy Implementation in the People's Republic of China: Authoritative Decisions versus Individual Interests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Melanie Manion
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Policymakers in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are situated at the top of what is essentially, despite reforms, a communist system—with an ideology that is the point of reference for what is admissible action, a communist party that monopolizes political power, an economy that remains in large part centrally planned, and a coercive apparatus that effectively penetrates urban society. Top leaders in Beijing have available to implement their policies several massive bureaucracies in which relations of authority are clearly delineated.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 2: 50th Year of Publication 1941–1991 , May 1991 , pp. 253 - 279
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991

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