2022
DOI: 10.1002/pad.1971
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Do visiting monks give better sermons? “Street‐level bureaucrats from higher‐up” in targeted poverty alleviation in China

Abstract: In those countries lacking democratic institutions and with weak professional bureaucracy and low governance capacity at the rural grassroots level, do different types of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) exist? If so, how do they work? To answer these questions, this article constructs an institution-practice framework to understand the different types of SLBs. Based on fieldwork in three Chinese counties concerning their implementation of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy, we found that the street-level … Show more

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“…Furthermore, they have not analyzed to what extent contextual factors concretely affect social services provision in a given area. The only works in this regard that combined the SLB framework with the more typical approach of urban and rural studies have mostly investigated specific rural contexts in which the characteristics of rurality tend to be exacerbated; reference is made here to all studies focusing on areas pertaining in the Global South or which still face major challenges to their socio-economic development in general (Kaler and Watkins, 2001; Gaede, 2016; Cai et al. , 2022; Lotta et al.…”
Section: Street-level Bureaucracy and The Role Of Different Territori...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Furthermore, they have not analyzed to what extent contextual factors concretely affect social services provision in a given area. The only works in this regard that combined the SLB framework with the more typical approach of urban and rural studies have mostly investigated specific rural contexts in which the characteristics of rurality tend to be exacerbated; reference is made here to all studies focusing on areas pertaining in the Global South or which still face major challenges to their socio-economic development in general (Kaler and Watkins, 2001; Gaede, 2016; Cai et al. , 2022; Lotta et al.…”
Section: Street-level Bureaucracy and The Role Of Different Territori...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, they have not analyzed to what extent contextual factors concretely affect social services provision in a given area. The only works in this regard that combined the SLB framework with the more typical approach of urban and rural studies have mostly investigated specific rural contexts in which the characteristics of rurality tend to be exacerbated; reference is made here to all studies focusing on areas pertaining in the Global South or which still face major challenges to their socioeconomic development in general (Kaler and Watkins, 2001;Gaede, 2016;Cai et al, 2022;Lotta et al, 2022;Mangla, 2022). The SLB literature focusing on Mediterranean European contexts and, in particular, on the Italian case, has applied the theory in large urban and metropolitan areas with particularly complex and structured service dynamics (Saruis, 2015;Rossi and Bertotti, 2019;Peris Cancio, 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Compared with developed regions, governments in poor regions have greater control over scarce resources. To obtain the resources necessary for enterprise development, poor entrepreneurs rely more on government relations for resource acquisition to survive and develop (Cai et al, 2022). Additionally, the institutional environment of poor areas frequently has many gaps (Sinkovics et al, 2014), and the relationship with government departments allows poor entrepreneurs to obtain government support to avoid unnecessary administrative interventions (Faye and Niehaus, 2012).…”
Section: Opportunity Co-creation and Entrepreneurial Performancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, decades of "blood transfusion poverty alleviation" have resulted in some poor communities lacking endogenous motivation to get rid of poverty and relatively weak development abilities. They also have a serious "ideology of waiting, relying, and needing" (Cai et al, 2022) and face various issues, such as a lack of confidence and enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and an incapacity to support subsequent production and development. It is, therefore, extremely difficult to promote the entrepreneurial behavior of the poor.…”
Section: The Role Of Entrepreneurial Action Between Opportunity Co-cr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Meanwhile, the central government employed the performance evaluation institution and cadre management system to motivate and discipline local officials to accomplish the policy goal. In addition, the upper-level government increased financial investment and dispatched high-level bureaucrats to assist villages in developing innovative strategies for poverty alleviation (Cai et al, 2022). In China's anti-poverty campaign, frontline bureaucrats engaged in policy entrepreneurship primarily in response to political pressure and incentives from the upper level.…”
Section: Village Officials As Slpes In China's Largest Anti-poverty C...mentioning
confidence: 99%