Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise

By S. Heilmann. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Going West and Going Out: discourses, migrants, and models in Chinese development (2016, methodology): “Since even before the 1949 establishment of the PRC, the Chinese Communist Party has used “experimental points,” “model demonstrations,” “model experiments,” and “proceeding from point to surface” as forms of policy experimentation and governance practice (heilmann 2008a, 2011).”
• National Planning and Local Technology Zones: Experimental Governance in China's Torch Programme* (2013, background): “…promoted to higher positions 8 National policy-making Speeches by top leaders; national conferences; new policy defined in government documents 9 National legislation Formalization of policy innovation through national legislation/ regulation Source: Based on Heilmann 2008 and 2009. patterns.”
• Mandate Versus Championship: Vertical government intervention and diffusion of innovation in public services in authoritarian China (2014, background): “Moreover, the effectiveness of these local experimentations is based on the encouragement, protection, and promotion of the central authority than on trial and error or spontaneous policy diffusion (Heilmann 2008b: 29).”
• Handbook of Innovation Systems and Developing Countries: Building Domestic Capabilities in a Global Setting (2011, background): “This is one reason why policy learning should take place through experimentation (Heilmann, 2008; compare Rodrik, 2008).”
• Circular Economy Policies in China and Europe (2017, methodology): “Heilmann has characterized this approach as ‘experimentation under hierarchy’, and illustrated how it forms part of a wider emphasis on experimentation and gradualism within Chinese governance (Heilmann 2008b, 2008a).”
• Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries (2009, background): “This is one reason why policy learning should take place through experimentation (Heilmann, 2008; compare Rodrik, 2008).”
• The Reinvention of Development Planning in China, 1993–2012 (2013, background): “Since experimentation under hierarchy is a purposeful and controlled— not just trial-and-error—process (Heilmann 2008), economic administrators see it as compatible with planning objectives in the Chinese context.”