The institutional evolution of administrative reforms in China and Russia: reciprocal exchange of experience
Keywords:
Western management models, New Public Management, Good Governance, administrative reforms, institutional evolutionAbstract
The article is devoted to the main stages of administrative reforms in China and Russia. Each of the stages is considered in terms of borrowing Western management models, namely New Public Management and Good Governance. In the course of research into institutional evolution of Russian and Chinese administrative reforms, we investigate the elements of the above-named models and the strategies used by the political leaders for their adaptation to the public administration systems. The possibilities for reciprocal exchange of experience between China and Russia are definedDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2015-4-192-218References
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