The evolution of policy experimentation in China
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Scholars credit policy experimentation with China’s economic reforms and authoritarian resilience. This article traces the evolution of experimentation through the prism of varying motivations, such as individual career incentives, improving governance, and symbolic and factional politics. Despite the benefits, there has been a notable reduction in experimentation under Xi Jinping, creating disincentives to innovate at the local level. Nevertheless, we do find remaining pockets of policy experimentation as a result of ineffective institutional incentives, influence of peer groups, and variations in the personalities of policymakers. However, it is unclear if this is robust enough for further economic or governance reforms.
Source: Journal of Asian Public Policy
Authors: Jessica C. Teets, Reza Hasmath
Institutions: Middlebury College, University of Alberta
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3000365555