ABSTRACT
Civil service remuneration is vital to public governance around the world. This chapter explains the role and function of local bureaucracy in policy implementation in China. It reviews the models of policy analysis in China studies. The chapter argues that policies such as remuneration are secondary to economic policy due to the existing institutional environment of the Chinese bureaucracy, by adopting the selective implementation model to explain local inaction towards public sector remuneration. It provides an overview of the Chinese civil service remuneration policy launched in 2006. The chapter discusses the motivation of local leaders' inactions toward pay policy. Two sources of ideologies had an impact and imposed certain constraints on the Chinese bureaucracy: Confucianism and Marxism-Leninism. Parallel to the rationalization of personnel management, centralization characterized the Chinese bureaucracy in the early period of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese Communist Party asked cadres to digest classic works of Marxism-Leninism and a good deal of Party documents.
