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‘If You Can't Budget, How Can You Govern?’—A study of China's state capacity
Author(s) -
Ma Jun
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.509
Subject(s) - underpinning , china , state (computer science) , business , economics , economic system , political science , computer science , law , engineering , civil engineering , algorithm
State capacity matters. Using China as a case study, this essay contends that the capacity to budget is a general underpinning of state capacity regardless of how it is defined. For a state like China to enhance its capacity to budget, it must first concentrate on the issue of institutionalizing the basic controlling systems. Until this has been achieved, a move towards a more advanced budgetary system is unlikely to be successful. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.