UID:
kobvindex_DGP1640828540
ISSN:
0156-7365
Content:
Decentralized policy experimentation (a process in which central policy-makers encourage local officials to try out new ways of problem-solving and then feed the local experiences back into national policy formulation) has been a pervasive feature in China’s economic transformation. The pervasiveness of ''proceeding from point to surface'' (youdian daomian) in making policy suggests an entrenched legitimacy of decentralized experimentation that goes far beyond the sporadic local experiments that were carried out, for example, in the paradigmatic Party-state of the Soviet Union.The Chinese ''point-to-surface'' technique gives room to local officials to develop models on their own, while ultimate control over confirming, revising, terminating or spreading model experiments rests with top-level decision-makers. Generally, policy generation through local experiment and model demonstration has helped to provide a productive link between central and local initiative in China’s economic rise. (China J/GIGA)
In:
The China journal, Chicago, Ill : University of Chicago Press, 1995, (2008), 59, Seite 1-30, 0156-7365
Language:
English
Author information:
Heilmann, Sebastian 1965-
