Decision Making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders Book

	About the Editors and Contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Core Issues in Understanding the Decision Process
1	The Nature of Chinese Authoritarianism	3
2	The Evolution of the Central Secretariat and Its Authority	15
3	"Documentary Politics": Hypotheses, Process, and Case Studies	24
4	Organizational Hierarchy and the Cadre Management System	39
5	Bulwark of the Planned Economy: The Structure and Role of the State Planning Commission	51
6	The United Front Work System and the Nonparty Elite	66
7	Open and Closed Media: External and Internal Newspapers in the Propaganda System	76
8	Mechanisms of Foreign Policy-Making and Implementation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs	91
9	Decision-Making and Implementation of Policy toward Hong Kong	101
10	The Structure of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Two Decisions to Abolish Its Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought Institute	111
11	Political Work in the Military from the Viewpoint of the Beijing Garrison Command	118
12	The Decision Process Behind the 1986-1989 Political Reforms	133
13	Separating the Party from the Government	153
	Appendix: Evolution of the Chinese Communist Party Core Group System	163
14	Establishing a Public Service System	169
15	Political Reform in Beijing City	176
16	A Long Way toward a Free Press: The Case of the World Economic Herald	183
17	Decision and Miscarriage: Radical Price Reform in the Summer of 1988	189
18	Politics inside the Ring Road: On Sources and Comparisons	207
19	The Structure of Authority and Decision-Making: A Theoretical Framework	233
	Index	247