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Conquering Resources: The Growth and Decline of the PLA's Science and Technology Commission for National Defense The Growth and Decline of the PLA's Science and Technology Commission for National Defense

By Benjamin C. Ostrov, Richard P. Suttmeier Copyright 1992
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    This case study seeks to explain how organizations grow and the limits to that growth when an organization engaged in policy implementation lacks the resources necessary to achieve policy goals. The discussion of the basis of conflict that emerges from this study is of lasting significance. For years, studies of this issue have pointed to various models of factionalism, stressing the informal character of the groups involved. In Professor Ostrov's study, however, conflict is shown to have a supra-Cultural Revolutionary institutional basis in this and other key units.

    The rural Midwest is undergoing fundamental changes with increased competition from foreign agriculture; employment shifts from higher-paying manufacturing to lower-paying service industries; the displacement of local small town business by large discount stores and shopping malls; overall population declines that threaten the viability of schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, along with an influx of minority groups that has led to strife in some communities. Using data from the 2000 Census, this collection examines the major demographic and employment trends in the rural Midwestern states with special attention to the issues that state and local policy makers must address in the near future. The contributors are well known experts in their fields, and in these original, previously unpublished materials they offer suggestions on how the Internet and other technological advances offer new opportunities for rural economies that local leaders can build on.

    Biography

    Benjamin C. Ostrov received his M.A. in International Relations and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He is now a Lecturer in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the United College, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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