英文摘要 |
A special decentralization of governance reform was implemented in Mainland China at the end of the 1970s. This reform gave local government more decision power in the matters of economic, but politics still maintains the vertical management system. The present study intends to discuss the effect of relationship between central and local government on the provision of public service, as in the case of compulsory education in rural areas. The empirical finding suggests that only when the central government gets the information of imbalance between supply and demand of public service, then the problem can be solved by the political process from top to bottom, However, the unified policies made by the central government are often not suitable to local governments with different economic and social conditions. This paradoxical situation needs the central government to persistently adjust policies, thus participation of the society in the decision making regarding public service provision is a very important in the development process of China's political economy. |