The Bureaucratic Reform Dynamics from the Historical Institutionalist Perspective: Combining Path Dependence with Bounded Rationality

• In Event: Bureaucracy in Authoritarian Systems

Brief Overview

I combine path dependence with bounded rationality to explain the institutional dynamics of the bureaucratic reforms. The Chinese public personnel reform at the central authorities in 1979-2019 exemplifies this idea.

Author

• Shuai Qin, Vrije Universiteit Brussel