The Selective Centralization: The Vertical Management Reform of Central-local Relations in China

摘要：

The vertical management reform is a kind of selective centralization in the movement of decentralization reform after 1979 in China. Its primary aim is to restrain the local protectionism emerging in the decentralization movement. The vertical management could be divided into total vertical management model and limited vertical management model, or the supervising model and the implementing model. The practices of vertical management nowadays face four important challenges, i.e., the hollow local governments, the obscure criteria of selective centralization, interest conflicts and the absence of supervision. This paper suggests three approaches to promote the vertical management reform further: (1) defining the functions assumed by the central government and local governments clearly; (2) constructing the coordinating and collaborating mechanisms between the vertical management system and local governments; (3) strengthening the institutional infrastructure of vertical management, especially the supervising mechanism and dispute arbitration mechanism.

关键词： Vertical management Central-local relations Selective centralization Decentralization

作者: WUShuai

作者单位: College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310027

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)

会议地点: 澳大利亚堪培拉

会议语种:英文

页码: 28-33

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）