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Bringing the low-carbon agenda to China: a study in transnational policy diffusion / Hofem, Andreas; Heilmann, Sebastian

Heilmann, Sebastian	Journal Article
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2013.

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This study traces the transnational interactions that contributed to introducing the low-carbon economy agenda into Chinese policymaking. A microprocessual two-level analysis (outside-in as well as inside-access) is employed to analyse transnational and domestic exchanges. The study provides evidence that low-carbon agenda-setting - introduced by transnational actors, backed by foreign funding, promoted by policy entrepreneurs from domestic research institutes, propelled by top-level attention, but only gradually and cautiously adopted by the government bureaucracy - can be considered a case of effective transnational diffusion based on converging perceptions of novel policy challenges and options. Opinion leaders and policy-brokers from the government-linked scientific community functioned as effective access points to the Chinese government's policy agenda.

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China ; Environmental Policy ; Policy diffusion ; Agenda - Setting ; Low - Carbon Economy (LCE)

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ID: 081196

From local experiments to national policy: the origins of China's distinctive policy process / Heilmann, Sebastian

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2008.

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Economy ; Politics and Government ; China ; National Policy

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National planning and local technology zones: experimental governance in China's torch programme / Heilmann, Sebastian; Shih, Lea; Hofem, Andreas

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2013.

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Many studies raise doubts about the effectiveness of the institutions, programmes and instruments that shape the Chinese national innovation system. This article scrutinizes central-local interactions in the national Torch Programme that has governed a large group of high-technology zones since 1988. The Torch Programme's procedural practices challenge widely shared assumptions about the dirigiste character of Chinese innovation policy. It combines centralized definition of programme objectives with extensive local implementation experiments. As three case studies demonstrate, bottom-up policy innovations are effectively fed back into national programme adjustments and into horizontal policy diffusion. The array of organizational patterns and promotional instruments that emerges from competitive "experimentation under the shadow of hierarchy" (ESH) goes way beyond what could have been initiated from top down. We hypothesize that the procedural strengths displayed in the Torch Programme may provide better indicators of future innovative potential in China's high-technology zones than retrospective statistical indices and benchmarks that are derived from OECD experience.

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OECD ; China ; Economic Policy - China ; Innovation Policy ; Innovation System ; Chinese Technology ;
Policy Experimentation ; National Policy - China ; Strategic Plan - China ; Economic Plan - China ; Torch Programme ; Technology Zones ;
ESH Framework ; Horizontal Policy ; Organizational Patterns

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Regulatory innovation by leninist means: Communist party supervision in China's financial industry / Heilmann, Sebastian

Mar 2005

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Mar 2005.

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Communist party-China ; Internal Politics-China ; China ; Economic Reform-China

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