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The Architecture of Control: a Chinese Strategy for e-Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2005

RANDOLPH KLUVER
RANDOLPH KLUVER
Affiliation:
Communication Research Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Abstract

The rapid development of the Peoples' Republic of China has put increasing strains on an overwhelmed administrative and bureaucratic structure that was already hobbled by persistent inefficiency and corruption. In addition to anti-corruption and professionalization campaigns, the government has devised a system of e-governance with the goal of adding stability and order to a chaotic governing process. This includes re-establishing the control of the governing authorities, including improving the quality of surveillance and data gathering and hence policy-making; the elimination of corruption; and ultimately, the re-legitimation of the Communist Party of China. This paper discusses the critical administrative and political problems facing the government, demonstrates ways in which e-government has been designed to meet these, and discusses the problems presented by a reliance on e-government in a developing country.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Public Policy , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 75 - 97
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author is grateful to Richard Heeks and Richard Rose for their valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this paper and to Li Hongmei and Chen Yang for their assistance in much of this research.