Uneven Policy Implementation in Rural China

Göbel, Christian

doi:10.1086/tcj.65.25790557

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“…A ‘competition under hierarchy’ or ‘experimentation‐based policy cycle’ has evolved in China with local experiments under the patronage of senior leaders at the central level. This system typically shows how ‘steering at a distance’ operates in Chinese social administration (Heilmann and Perry ; Gobel ) and is consistent with the notion of ‘social decentralization’ proposed by Shih ().…”

Section: The Construction Of Selective Welfare Pragmatism In Chinasupporting

confidence: 82%

The Productivist Construction of Selective Welfare Pragmatism in China

Mok¹,

Kühner²,

Huang

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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This article discusses whether Mainland China under the Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao leadership has developed a new welfare settlement, the emphasis of which is to shift away from a 'productivist' focus on education and healthcare investment towards a more 'protective' approach, characterized by investing into social protection and establishing a minimum living guarantee for both the urban and rural poor. In so doing, this article reviews the conceptual debate on Chinese social policy development and explores whether there is any evidence to substantiate a gradual decrease of fragmentation in social provision among the Chinese provinces. With regard to the former question, the article finds that the various social policy initiatives have yet to amount to a qualitative shift in the core foundation of the human capital-focused welfare production logic in China. With regard to the latter question, we argue that considerable fragmentation of social provision at the Chinese provincial level continues to hamper attempts to define a coherent Chinese social model. Indeed, we find considerable diversity in terms of the co-operative state-local interactions within China leading to varying trajectories of social decentralization. Unlike much of the current research in comparative social policy analysis, which continues to treat Mainland China as a single case, this article provides a strong account of a productivist construction of selective welfare pragmatism, which reproduces social policy gaps for different groups of the Chinese population, and suggests that determining multiple 'welfare types' within China might be the most fruitful path for future academic inquiry.

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Section: The Construction Of Selective Welfare Pragmatism In Chinasupporting

confidence: 82%

The Productivist Construction of Selective Welfare Pragmatism in China

Mok¹,

Kühner²,

Huang

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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“…The function of any target responsibility system is to ensure that central policies are carried out by local officials. This is achieved by linking the implementation of central policies to financial bonuses and career advancement of local cadres [63][64][65]. First created in 2007 [38], the Energy Conservation Target Responsibility System proved to be an effective enforcement mechanism when local government scrambled to deliver the targets with whatever means available to them in 2010.…”

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Energy conservation in China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan period: Continuation or paradigm shift?

Wang

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Solinger, 2005). This delicate balancing act reflects an undercurrent of state rescaling possibly unique to China: it is made possible by 1) the central government's experimental and gradualist approach to instituting new policies (Naughton, 1995;Göbel, 2011;Heilmann and Perry, 2011) and 2) the national system of reciprocal accountability that entails both central and local decisions to complement those of other levels (Shirk, 1993;Naughton, 2008;Xu, 2011).…”

Section: State Rescaling Path-dependency and Economic Restructuring mentioning

confidence: 99%