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The size, cost, and accountability of the mainland administrative state — civil-service scale and fiscal burden, transparency of budgets and decisions, and the institutions tasked with fighting corruption. These dossiers ask what the administrative machine costs, who watches it, and what rules-based accountability would require in place of campaign-style discipline. Each dossier states its evidence grades and open questions; positions are attributed rather than adjudicated. Historical background on the fiscal roots of bureaucratic bloat is developed in "Never Again a Head Tax"; the campaign that reshaped today's anticorruption institutions is documented in "The 2012–2014 Launch of the Xi-Era Anti-Corruption Campaign."
Published dossiers