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100			_aChan, Hon S.
245			_aFour challenges to accountability in contemporary public administration: lessons from the United States and China
260			_c2010
300			_ap.11-33.
362			_aSupplement
520			_aUsing the Romzek-Dubnick typology of accountability, the authors analyze challenges that reinvention and new public management reforms in the United States and China present with regard to maintaining legal controls, protecting non-mission-based administrative objectives, pursuing public values, and sustaining hierarchical authority. The authors show that reforms - especially outsourcing and results orientation - have very different consequences in the dissimilar U.S. and Chinese legal and political settings. The analysis contributes to those Public administrative theories holding that when it comes to reform, law and politics matter, and that even when administrative problems are similar across nations, their solutions may differ. - Reproduced.
650			_aAdministrative reform - United States
650			_aAccountability - United States
650			_aPublic administration - United States
650			_aAdministrative reform - China
650			_aAccountability - China
650			_aPublic administration - China
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aRosenbloom, David H.
773			_aAdministration and Society
908			_aN
909			_a86641
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