Introduction Part I: Analysing Public Management in China and in the West Chapter 1. From Public Administration to New Public Management: An intellectual journey Chapter 2. Comparing New Public Management in China and in the West: Some theoretical and methodological problems 2.1 Markets, free markets, market mechanisms, capitalism, and socialism 2.2 NPM, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and the Washington Consensus 2.3 Capitalism, Welfare States, and empirical typologies of public management in the West 2.4 Measuring the impact of NPM in China and in the West 2.5 What we will actually compare Part II: The rise of New Public Management in China and in the West Chapter 3. The foundations of the Western experiment: Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the Washington consensus 3.1 The New Public Management or the impossible new paradigm of public management 3.2 The New Public Management and the impossible typology of NPM variants 3.3 The New Public Management and the doing away of democratic values 3.4 The New Public management, or: when the citizen gives way to the customer 3.5 The New Public Management or the inescapable consequences of the globalization of the economy 3.6 The New Public Management or the art of marketing in public management 3.7 The New Public Management ideal-type 3.8 The technical difficulties of NPM Chapter 4. The foundation of Chinese New Public Management: Deng’s reforms, or the demise of planned economy and the introduction of market mechanisms 3.1 The Chinese NPM: the choice of market mechanisms 3.2 Restoring China as a world power 3.3 How Chinese think and define their strategies 3.4 Fundamentals of China’s strategy for implementing NPM: market mechanisms, economic development, freedom and its limits 3.5 The importance of Chinese characteristics and the reference to socialism 3.6 The opening up of the decision-making process Part III: The crisis of New Public Management in the West and in China Chapter 5. The Western experiment: some positive economic achievements, many societal problems 5.1 The economic perspective: a view from above, or the development of economic power 5.2 The social perspective: a view from below, or the development of inequalities Chapter 6. The Chinese experiment: many success stories, considerable disparities and environmental damages, but also an astonishing capacity for reversing past policies 6.1 The economic perspective: a view from above, or catching up with the West 6.2 The social perspective: a view from below, or the development of inequalities 6.3 The rebalancing of Chinese society Conclusion. Chinese way, Western way, the 2008-11 crisis and beyond