Effective Policy Implementation in China’s Local State

Ahlers, Anna L.; Schubert, Gunter

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“…China's infrastructure development played a significant role in overcoming the geographical obstacles to trade, notably, differences in infrastructure investment in communications, for example, roads, railways, waterways, and telephones (Ahlers & Schubert, ; Chakraborty & Kumar, ; Hameiri & Jones, ; Huang, ; Tsui et al., ). Infrastructure investment has had a statistically significant positive impact on growth in China (Sahoo, Dash & Nataraj, ).…”

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Hunger Reduction in China: An Analysis of Contextual Factors

Islam

2016

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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In recent times, China has significantly reduced hunger in its populace. The main objective of this paper was to analyze some of the contextual socioeconomic factors contributing to the reduction of hunger in China, using Qualitative Interpretative Meta-Synthesis (QIMS). The results revealed that China has followed a broad-based and multispectral approach to reduce hunger. Factors, such as poverty alleviation; social safety nets for disadvantaged villagers; agricultural development and land reforms; regional development and equity in development activities; infrastructural development; and political-economic reform and sustainable growth were influential in reducing hunger in China. Poverty is attributed as one of the principal contributors and is interlinked with many other dimensions. The findings of this paper are a useful guide to the Chinese government, policy-makers, international organizations, and development practitioners.

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Hunger Reduction in China: An Analysis of Contextual Factors

Islam

2016

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…Does the MFW programme tell us something about other "fevers" or other initiatives that have taken off, such as attracting investment or establishing production bases and agricultural cooperatives? 77 When "free money" is not involved, what factors generate "increases 73 For this term and these criteria, see Smith 2013, 1028Ahlers and Schubert 2015. 75 Smith 2010.…”

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Enthusiastic Policy Implementation and its Aftermath: The Sudden Expansion and Contraction of China's Microfinance for Women Programme

Deng

O’Brien

Chen³

2018

The China Quarterly

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Many China scholars have explored shirking by local officials and “effective implementation,” but fewer have examined polices that are implemented with great enthusiasm. The Microfinance for Women Programme fits in this last category. Especially in Sichuan, targets for lending were set by the province, exceeded, raised by cities and counties, and then exceeded again. The immediate reason that lending took off in 2012 was the relaxation of collateral requirements that shifted the risk of defaults away from local authorities. But the surge in lending also had deeper roots in the policy's vagueness, institutional incentives, bureaucratic pressure, and local fiscal and organizational interests. Although enthusiastic implementation occurred (and generated much-needed revenues for local governments), the history of the programme also shows that it can be halted, as was the case when instability loomed and the authorities reversed bureaucratic pressure by calling for local cost-sharing and introducing uncertainty over whether interest subsidies would continue.

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“…O'Brien and Li () considered Chinese rural cadres as street‐level bureaucrats who enjoy enormous discretion and usually turned the central policy towards their own ends. Ahlers and Schubert () argue that central policy design, institutional constraints and strategic agency of local implementers contributed to effective implementation with the interactions among administrative layer as in counties, townships and villages. Yet, what is the situation at higher levels – provinces and prefectures?…”

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Multi‐Level Policy Implementation: A Case Study on China's Administrative Approval Intermediaries’ Reforms

Zhang

Rosenbloom

2018

Aust J Public Adm

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Policy output and outcome shortfalls are often attributable to deficits in implementation. Drawing on data collected from multi-level governmental documents and in-depth interviews regarding the ongoing reforms of the use of 'administrative approval intermediaries' in China, we identified a genre of policy implementation in which the policy implementers themselves are targets of reform. These implementers swing between fulfilling tasks and deviation from formal requirements. By illustrating how the implementation gap in the reform widened as the implementation moved downstream and the exercise of centralized authority deteriorated, we found that the implementation deficits worsen as the targets' interests were increasingly undermined by the policy. This was largely due to an administrative design in which the objective was established at the top, implementation depended on change by the bottom and coordination was horizontal across the middle.

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Effective Policy Implementation in China’s Local State

Cited by 98 publications

References 39 publications

Hunger Reduction in China: An Analysis of Contextual Factors

Hunger Reduction in China: An Analysis of Contextual Factors

Enthusiastic Policy Implementation and its Aftermath: The Sudden Expansion and Contraction of China's Microfinance for Women Programme

Multi‐Level Policy Implementation: A Case Study on China's Administrative Approval Intermediaries’ Reforms

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