| ID | 142793 |
| Title Proper | Politics of innovation in China |
| Other Title Information | local officials as policy entrepreneurs |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Teets, Jessica C |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In this article, I address the puzzle of what motivates local officials in China to do something new—create a new policy, launch a pilot, adopt an experimental policy—especially when such innovation has uncertain outcomes. Despite the uncertainty and risk, we observe a great deal of policy innovation, both the creation and adoption of experiments, at the subnational level in China. In this article, I explore local policymakers' incentives regarding innovation to understand why they experiment with new policies under conditions of political risk and uncertainty. I utilize data from existing studies on policy innovation, including the Local Gov-ernance Innovation Awards (中國地方政府創新獎), to conduct this analysis. |
| `In' analytical Note | Issues and Studies Vol. 51, No.2; Jun 2015: p.79-110 |
| Journal Source | Issues and Studies 2015-06 51, 2 |
| Key Words | Experimentation ; Local Policy Innovation ; Cadre Incentives |