TY - JOUR
T1 - Local State Adhocracy
T2 - Infrastructural Power and Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China
AU - Chen, Feng
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the General Research Funds (No.12645816), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. I am grateful to the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, and to Zhuang Wenjia, Chen Yongxin, and Wu Ziqi for their kind assistance to my fieldwork in Guangdong.
PY - 2020/3/3
Y1 - 2020/3/3
N2 - Previous studies on state’s infrastructural power assume that the state is composed of formal bureaucratic and coercive institutions. This study explores a new format of infrastructural power, termed the “local state adhocracy,” by using China’s stability maintenance apparatuses as a case. Configured through the state’s reordering of institutional and social resources but operating in rather flexible and impromptus manners, the local state adhocracy is rooted in the CCP’s political tradition of deploying informal and expedient organizations for policy implementation in a less institutionalized context. It generates new capability of the state but also weakens the rule of law and institutionalization.
AB - Previous studies on state’s infrastructural power assume that the state is composed of formal bureaucratic and coercive institutions. This study explores a new format of infrastructural power, termed the “local state adhocracy,” by using China’s stability maintenance apparatuses as a case. Configured through the state’s reordering of institutional and social resources but operating in rather flexible and impromptus manners, the local state adhocracy is rooted in the CCP’s political tradition of deploying informal and expedient organizations for policy implementation in a less institutionalized context. It generates new capability of the state but also weakens the rule of law and institutionalization.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066880959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10758216.2019.1605829
DO - 10.1080/10758216.2019.1605829
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066880959
SN - 1075-8216
VL - 67
SP - 180
EP - 192
JO - Problems of Post-Communism
JF - Problems of Post-Communism
IS - 2
ER -