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1 online resource |
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Social policy and development studies in East Asia |
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Social policy and development studies in East Asia.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The Political Economy of Social Policy Reform in China -- China's Economic Hyper-Growth and Inequality -- Research Questions -- Methodology -- What This Book Is About -- A Review of the Literature -- Major Arguments -- Contribution to the Literature -- References -- 2 The Development of Social Policy Reform in China -- China's Welfare System Before the 1980s -- The Welfare System in the 1980s and 1990s and Initiation of New Social Programs -- Pensions -- Health Insurance -- Unemployment Insurance -- Urban Social Assistance (Dibao) |
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The Chinese Welfare System Since the Early 2000s -- Pensions -- Health Insurance -- Social Assistance -- Achievements of the Recent Round of Social Policy Reforms -- Social Insurance -- Social Assistance -- Fragmentation of China's Welfare System -- The Role of Bureaucrats in China's Social Policy Reform -- References -- 3 Policy Implementation in the Decentralization Welfare Regime -- Decentralized Management -- Local Officials' Motivation Under the Performance Evaluation System -- Selective Enforcement Under the Performance Evaluation System -- Decentralized Financing |
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Social Policy Reform Under Decentralized Management and Financing -- Policy Reforms Addressing Issues in the Welfare System -- Local Policy Experiments -- Issues in Local Policy Experimentation -- Regional Development -- Issues in Regional Development Policy -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Interagency Collaboration in China's Social Policy Reform -- Collective Action Problem in Policy Making and Implementation -- Explicit Ex Ante and Ex Post Rules -- Small Leading Groups and Interministerial Joint Conferences -- The Limitations of Interministerial Conferences and Small Leading Groups |
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Separating Authority: A Top-down Mechanism to Facilitate Policy Implementation -- Bureaucracy's Authority in Policy Areas -- Rural Health Insurance -- Incentive Structure of the Government Agency in Managing Health Insurance -- Logrolling: A Voluntary Way to Facilitate the Exchange of Support Among Bureaucrats -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Policy Capacity in China's Social Policy Reform -- Increasing the Funding of Social Programs -- Policy Capacity in Managing Social Programs -- Capacity in Managing Social Insurance Funds -- Capacity of Targeting for Social Assistance Programs |
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Capacity of Policy Evaluating for Social Insurance Reform -- The Financial Sustainability of Social Insurance Funds -- Improving Capacity with a Reshuffling of Departmental Responsibility -- Reforming the Individual Accounts of Health Insurance Fund -- Improving Government Capacity by Upgrading Digital Infrastructure -- The Endogeneity of Policy Capacity Improvement -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Feedback on Social Policy Reform and Bureaucrats' Responses -- Citizens' Participation in Social Policy Reforms -- Online Political Participation -- Workers' Feedback to Social Policy Reform |
| Summary |
This book explores the institutional factors in social policymaking and implementation in China. From the performance evaluation system for local cadres to the intergovernmental fiscal system, local policy experimentation, logrolling among government departments, and the top-level design, there are a number of factors that make policy in China less than straightforward. The book argues that it is bureaucratic incentive structure lead to a fragmented and stratified welfare system in China. Using a variety of Chinese- and English-language sources, including central and local government documents, budgetary data, household surveys, media databases, etc., this book covers the development of Chinas pensions, health insurance, unemployment insurance, and social assistance programs since the 1990s, with a focus on initiatives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing a deeper understanding of policymaking and implementation in China, this book interests scholars of public administration, political economy, Asian politics, and social development. Jiwei QIAN is a senior research fellow at the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore. His research has been published in leading journals including The China Quarterly, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Public Choice, Social Policy and Administration, and Social Science & Medicine among others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public administration -- China
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Public administration
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Social policy
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social policy
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811650253 |
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981165025X |
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