Interjurisdictional Competition and Intracity Fiscal Disparity across Chinese Prefectural Cities

Li, Huiping; Chen, Zheng

doi:10.1111/gove.12222

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“…We collected the agreement dates by means of a mainstream online media search engine. Inter-city competition is measured in reference to the average number of public services available through Alipay that are offered by other cities within the same province, since the cities primarily compete with their peers in the same province, both politically and economically (Li et al., 2017).…”

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Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities

Christensen

Zheng

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Governments have increased their collaboration with the private sector regarding public service delivery, and their propensities to do so are largely shaped by their own in-house capacities. In this article, we theorize and analyze whether governments with an extremely low or extremely high technological capacity are more likely to collaborate with third-party platforms in order to jointly provide digital services. We expect there to be a U-shaped relationship between the technological capacity of those governments and their public–private partnership choices. An empirical analysis of digital service delivery across 290 prefecture-level cities in China corroborates this hypothesis. These results deepen our understanding of the competing motivations that drive the public–private partnership process. Points for practitioners Public–private collaboration has been widely adopted to promote digital service delivery. This article confirms the U-shaped relationship between government technological capacity and public–private collaboration in digital service delivery at the city level. To encourage the collaboration, it is crucial to target governments with varying capacities, which seems to be easier in large cities with high administrative rank and that are overall technologically mature and in a competitive environment technologically.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities

Christensen

Zheng

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…For example, Arlotti and Aguilar‐Hendrickson () report evidence that decentralization and institutional fragmentation associated with “multilevel governance” in Southern Europe has yielded substantial territorial inequalities in long‐term care provision. Similarly, Li, Wang, and Zheng () examine local government decentralization in China, finding evidence that the resulting interjurisdictional competition yields higher intraurban fiscal disparities.…”

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Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Giordono¹,

Jones²,

Rothwell³

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This essay reviews the policy‐oriented literature on economic inequality in wealthy countries published from 2008 to 2018. We focus on this decade because it is a period bookended by both the beginnings of the Great Recession of 2008–2009 as well as the recovery. During this timeframe, attention to inequality by social policy scholars grew substantially, which we argue reflects an interest in both inequality trends as well as redistributive social policy. We observe in the literature sustained efforts to understand both the relationship between social policy and economic inequality, as well as determinants of changes to redistributive social policy. We also note substantial variation in research traditions, as well as opportunities to address substantive, methodological, and theoretical gaps. Our review summarizes the approaches and findings from the literature and discusses the implications of the findings for the study of economic inequality within the academic field of public policy.

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“…Moreover, severe mismatches between fiscal capacity and expenditure responsibilities on the part of local governments have been widely observed in China [ 54 , 55 ]. Because of the limited financial resources allocated from above, local governments must resort to generating additional revenues from their local economies to maintain daily operations.…”

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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Environmental Governance in China: Evidence from the River Chief System (RCS)

Ouyang

Zhang

Wen

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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A common argument is that the comprehensive implementation of the river chief system (RCS) is a clear indication of the Chinese government’s strong commitment to overcoming the problem of water pollution. Scant attention, nonetheless, has been afforded to systematically examining the economic and social effects of this pioneering policy. Based on news reports and data from regions in which the RCS was piloted, this paper fills in a critical literature gap by unpacking the environmental, economic, and societal benefits accrued from this river-based management approach. Specifically, by employing a difference-in-differences (DID) method, this study shows that (1) overall, the adoption of the RCS has significantly reduced the discharge of sewage per unit of GDP and improved water quality to a considerable extent; (2) the RCS, functioning under China’s top-down bureaucratic structure, coupled with increasing encouragement of bottom-up oversight and citizen participation, has provided local governments with strong incentives to improve water quality in a timely manner in their respective jurisdictions through the introduction of a plethora of measures, ranging from increased investment in wastewater treatment to faithful enforcement of environmental regulations; (3) the positive changes anticipated as a result of the RCS cannot be materialized in regions that have difficulties sustaining economic growth or facilitating cross-boundary policy coordination; and (4) the long-term effectiveness of the RCS is based on its ability to compel local enterprises to innovate their modes of operation, ultimately leading to regional industrial upgrading. The paper concludes by discussing how these empirical findings can help policymakers devise feasible tactics for confronting the causes of China’s current environmental predicament in the context of improving the alignment of individual officials’ political aspirations with targeted environmental outcomes.

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Interjurisdictional Competition and Intracity Fiscal Disparity across Chinese Prefectural Cities

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities

Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities

Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Environmental Governance in China: Evidence from the River Chief System (RCS)

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