Jamie Horsley Publishes Report on Good Governance in China
China continues to make headline news in the United States with its internal repression and external aggression. Yet, the Chinese Communist Party is simultaneously engaged in a long-term “reinventing government” project to build a more law-based, transparent, participatory, and accountable government, to enhance both its effectiveness and its legitimacy.
Ms. Horsley argues that, because many of China’s new governance institutions are adapted from American and Western practices, they provide a case study of how engagement with the country is helping to promote positive domestic developments. These open government developments also hold a promise that a more transparent, participatory, and law-based governance system at home will encourage China’s more open and rules-based collaboration with the United States and the international community.