Politics of Financing Education in China

Informationen zum Autor Dr Tingjin Lin is Jiangsu Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Dean of Institute of Urban Development Studies, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. He also serves as an adjunct research fellow at the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, USA. His research focuses on public management and administration in China, specializing in public finance and public services delivery in China, fiscal behaviours of Chinese local government, and local political elites in China. His articles have appeared in China: an International Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, and Chinese Society and Education. Klappentext Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. Zusammenfassung Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Developing Bureaucratic Framework 3. Personnel Rules and Education Equalization 4. 1994 Tax Reform and Provincial Fiscal Dependency 5. Personnel Rules, Fiscal Dependency and Education Inequality 6. Conclusions

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Developing Bureaucratic Framework 3. Personnel Rules and Education Equalization 4. 1994 Tax Reform and Provincial Fiscal Dependency 5. Personnel Rules, Fiscal Dependency and Education Inequality 6. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: T Lin, T. Lin, Tingjin Lin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349435975
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43597-5
• No. of pages: 205
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Economic Policy, Asia, Politics & government, Public Policy, Political Economy, Politics and government, Education and state, Central / national / federal government policies, Education Policy, International Political Economy, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, International Political Economy’, conflict;education;tax reform