01324pab a2200157 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Yasheng Huang Managing Chinese bureaucrats : an institutional economic perspective 2002 p.61-79. Mar Conventional analysis of government typically focuses on `politics', that is, interests, conflicts or personalities. But governing a country is not only a task of successfully governing its people but also an administrative task of managing subordinate officials. This is a very relevant issue in a country such as China, with a massive bureaucracy. The top `managers' of the country - some 30 national leaders - make policies but also manage a large number of bureaucratic personnel. As in business organizations, control problems occur when subordinates have different interests from those of the organization and when the behavior of subordinates is imperfectly monitored. Control mechanisms are designed to minimize such problems by either alligning interests or improving information. This article uses this framework to explain a wide variety of administrative phenomena in Chinese government organizations. - Reproduced. Civil service Political Studies 52675 52675 52675 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 50, Issue no: 1 AR53105 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR