Description
This book takes a broad approach to studying China’s policy processes. It aims to shed new light on the characteristics of China’s political systems and to adapt theoretical frameworks of policy processes developed in Western democracies to China.
In 2021, Xi Jinping introduced the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy”. This new discourse calls for a deeper understanding of both traditional and new mechanisms and institutions functioning in China’s policy processes. Bringing together scholars with extensive fieldwork experience in mainland China and Taiwan, this edited volume investigates governance mechanisms and institutions of policy processes in China from different perspectives, such as mass line, Tiao–Kuai coordination, and People’s Congress. The book focuses not only on traditional topics such as agenda setting and policy change, but also on political-administrative relations, policy mix design, and delivering service contracts in communities. A comparative analysis of three social enterprises in Taiwan is provided as a case study of non-governmental actors’ (lack of) influence on policies in a context that is different from mainland China.
This book will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in policy processes in mainland China and Taiwan and in comparative theories about policy processes around the world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. From Tiao-window to Kuai-window: Strategies and Policy Entrepreneurship in Combating Counterfeit Cigarette Policy 3. Evaluating Performance of Government Contracted Social Service Implementation: An Analysis under the Lense of Collaborative Networks Theory 4. Could Politicization Improve Administrative Effectiveness?: Evidence from Party-led Reform of Social Conflict Resolution in X City of Hubei Province, China 5. A New Path to Empowering the Disabled: Work Integration Social Enterprises as a Social Governance Mechanism in Taipei 6. Mechanisms of Institutional Innovation and Diffusion in China: The Case of River-Chief Systems 7. Policy Evaluation and Policy Style Analysis of Ride-Hailing in China from the Perspective of Policy Instruments: The Introduction of a Two-Dimensional Framework 8. Refinement and Operationalization of the Multiple Streams Framework in China’s Context: The 2004 Amendment of the Infectious Diseases Law
