Reforming China`s Government : Fixing the Worst Government in the World

About the Book :

When Mao Zedong came to power in 1949, he created what was arguably "the worst government in the world" - vicious, misguided, and unbelievably wasteful and destructive. After Mao's death in 1976 his successors began national recovery and government reform. The theology of Communist command/control was abandoned, replaced by a highly successful ... See Moremarket based economy. This book describes the strategies for economic development, government reform, revitalization of the People's Liberation Army, and the rising tide of urban expansion. But it also documents deliberate and continuing government neglect of education, health care, massive environmental problems and the serious plight of farmers, villages and urban slums.

About Author :

Charles F. Bingman had a thirty-year career as a U. S. Federal government manager and executive. He taught public management for twenty-five years at the George Washington University and the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center. He has done consulting assignments with various organizations in China, Japan, the Russian Federation, Botswana, the Palestinian Authority, Kazakhstan, and ten other countries. He has published Japanese Government Leadership and Management and his most recent book Why Governments Go Wrong was published in 2006.