Policy transfer and the movement of Chinese river chief system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David P Dolowitz (0000-0002-3469-2362, University of Liverpool, corresponding author), Ye Xiong (0009-0003-2321-5602, Institute of Environment and Health, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 138-156 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02185377.2024.2363186 |
| OpenAlex | W4399505676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Much has been written about policy learning and transfer over the past 20-years. However little of this has examined the role of transfer within authoritarian nations. We propose to start addressing this by examining the movement of the river chief system from its original setting in the city of Wuxi in the Jiangsu Province to Suqian, Nantong, Suzhou and Huzhou, in Zhejiang Province. To do this we looked at two basic patterns of transfer: (1) horizontal transfer from one municipality (or combination of several) to another, and (2) vertical transfer up to and down from the Provincial level. This allowed local agents to act either autonomously in the transfer and learning processes or act under some level of compulsion to engage in the act of transfer. Based on our four case studies we argue that even when transfer involves a high degree of autonomy and translation of the transferred model to the local circumstances, successful outcomes are not guaranteed, just as when agents are forced into transfer a given model to their jurisdiction, there is no guarantee that it will result in policy failure
Autonomy · Jurisdiction · Policy transfer · Political science · Transfer (computing · Water resource management · Water transfer · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Who Learns What from Whom
China’s governance model and system in transition
Evaluation, Knowledge Management, Best Practices, and High Quality Lessons Learned
Learning from failed policy mobilities
(Im-)Mobile policies
Policy transfer, consultants and the geographies of governance
Policy transfer in critical perspective
Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise
Policy Learning, Policy Diffusion, and the Making of a New Order
Policy Transfer in the European Union
Shared Mental Models
Learning Lessons and Transferring Policy across Time, Space and Disciplines
The Future of Policy Transfer Research
Rethinking the travel of ideas
Understanding the transfer of policy failure
When top‐down meets bottom‐up
Policy Transfer among Local Governments
The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science
The process of transfer
What is Lesson-Drawing
Systematising Policy Learning
Policy diffusion and policy transfer
Mobilizing policy
Geographies of policy
Policies in Motion', Urban Management and State Restructuring
Policy Transfer as Policy Assemblage
The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States
Transfer and Learning
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |