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How do Chinese provincial governments reformulate the general central policies into implementable local policy outputs? How does this vary across provinces? Despite considerable research on policy implementation in China, strategies of policy reformulation remain understudied. To better understand these strategies, this article proposes a four-scenario typology: an innovative strategy, a defensive strategy, a conservative strategy, and a perfunctory strategy. Using a novel 2003–2017 dataset of provincial documents that were reformulated from central social policy mandates, as well as a preliminary case study of the Household Registration System reform, this article explores the spatial and temporal dynamics of policy reformulation in provincial China. The findings shed light on the complexity of policy implementation in China.
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This paper provides an alternative perspective on the post-1978 incremental adaptation of the Chinese administrative state. Unlike other studies that focus on the centralized reforms of the rationalized state or fragmentation and competition within the state, this paper analyzes the neglected strategies of self-empowerment adopted by weak administrative organizations and the subsequent impacts on administrative adaptation from an institutional-organizational perspective. Our case study on the organizational dynamics of ageing management suggests that weak or-ganizations, as peripheral insiders of the regime, are aware of their weakness and are skillful in utilizing mixed strategies, in a risk-averse way, to take advantage of the opportunities and resources emerging from the increasingly plural and diverse institutional environment. Most notably,these organizations partially assume and partially offset the role of the potentially disobedient external organization. Overall, their behavior creates and enlarges the pores through which modern administrative values and practices penetrate the transitional Chinese administrative state.
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