Public Administration and Administrative Reform in China for the 21st Century

This paper investigates the existing problems (blind areas and flaws) of the most recent four rounds of administrative reform in China. Next, the paper examines the understanding of administrative reform under the conventional State-center paradigm and associated crises. An alternative outlet for Chinese administrative reform from the perspective of paradigm transformation is also proposed. In the concluding section, we discuss the implications of the above analysis for the reconstruction of public administration theory in China under the specific Chinese context.