NDLI: Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise

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Author	Heilmann, Sebastian
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Policy experimentation is frequently highlighted as a potent means to facilitate institutional innovation, and avoid reformist leaps in the dark by injecting bottom-up initiative and local knowledge into the national policy process. Yet experimentation remains a surprisingly vague concept in the debate over variants of economic governance. This article contributes to the study of experiment-based policymaking by examining the distinctive tools, processes, and effects of experimental programs in major domains of China’s economic reform. China’s experience attests to the potency of experimentation in bringing about transformative change, even in a rigid authoritarian, bureaucratic environment, and regardless of strong political opposition. Large-scale experimentation stimulated policy learning and economic expansion effectively in those sectors in which political elites could benefit from supporting new types of private and transnational entrepreneurial activity. Conversely, experimental programs largely failed in generating an effective provision of social goods which would require a combination of active societal supervision and strict central government enforcement to make it work. Though the impact of reform experiments varies between policy domains, China’s experimentation-based policy process has been essential to redefining basic policy parameters. At the heart of this process, we find a pattern of central–local interaction in generating policy—“experimentation under hierarchy”—which constitutes a notable addition to the repertoires of governance that have been tried for achieving economic transformation.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	26
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393606
Journal	Studies in Comparative International Development
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	19366167
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-12-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Development

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