This article evaluates Cuban economic performance in 2004–2005, contrasting it with 2003 and 1989 (prior to the crisis); in addition, it compares 2004 targets with actual performance and examines targets and prospects for 2005. The analysis of economic performance includes macroeconomic, physical output and external sector indicators; social performance is the subject of another paper in this v...

Abstract This study contributes to the research on central–local relations in China by examining local dynamics and defiance. Drawing case of a provincial government's defiance against central policy – Heilongjiang province's 2016 ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs) this shows that despite unprecedented recentralization push recent years, still exists persists. In addition, finds governme...

In recent decades, the emerging post-New Public Management (post-NPM) reform wave has introduced a variety of coordinative organizational forms, among them super-ministries and networks. this study Leading Groups (LGs), form network that characterizes China’s public sector reforms, an instrumental-structural cultural-value perspective are used to analyze post-NPM features LG model, paying speci...

Despite claims of a paradigmatic shift toward the increased role networks and partnerships as form governance—driven enabled by digital technologies—the relation “Networked Governance” with pre-existing paradigms “Traditional Weberian Public Administration” “New Management” remains relatively unexplored. This research aims at collecting systematic evidence on dominant in digitalization reforms ...

This study aims to explain the challenges in decentralization of television broadcasting Indonesia, specifically, role political transformation over last 20 years. Three provinces, i.e., Bali, South Sulawesi, and Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, were selected represent various operation characteristics Indonesian provinces. Focusing on private broadcasting, case examines challenge policies Indonesia...

The article contains analysis of political transformations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) 1997-2021 aiming to identify its process’ features within framework «one country, two systems» model. A brief description Kong’s life events preceding decades is given, which reflects key tendencies socio-political development under British colonial rule. It stated that establishing n...