This book aims to explain the gap between Western theories and the Chinese administration reform experiences.

Leizhen Zang is a Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of State Governance in Peking University. He was a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a Japan Foundation fellow and the JSPS international research fellow at the University of Tokyo. His research covers comparative politics, computational social science methods, and governance.

Yanyan Gao is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, China. His research interests involve public policy evaluation and the impacts of the infrastructures like High-Speed Rail and Natural Gas Pipeline Projects.