How to Navigate the Bureaucracy in China
How to Navigate the Bureaucracy in China
To many, the Chinese bureaucracy seems daunting, even impossible to navigate. In this lecture, Andrew Mertha provides a roadmap to help understand the internal logic of China's bureaucratic apparatus, focusing on administrative rank, degree of centralization/decentralization and the art of "following the money".
Andrew Mertha is associate professor of government, specializing in Chinese and Cambodian politics, particularly on political institutions, the policy process, and the exercise of power. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a core faculty member in the Cornell East Asia Program and the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. He has written three books, The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China (Cornell University Press, 2005), China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell University Press, 2008), and Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2014).
Time and place
Friday 15 November 2013, 14:00-15:30
Copenhagen Business School
Kilen - Kilevej 14
2000 Frederiksberg
Room Ks71
This lecture is organized by Asia Research Centre, CBS. Please sign up at arc.int@cbs.dk