Policy Attributes and Social Policy Diffusion in China

政策创新与扩散的既有研究主要关注创新扩散的模式、动力与机制，相对忽视了政策本身及其属性对政策扩散的影响以及政策内容如何在扩散过程中演变。本文以中国棚户区改造政策的扩散过程为案例，运用政策扩散理论研究政策属性如何影响政策扩散，以及政策创新采纳后如何被实施。研究发现，棚户区改造政策既可以改善困难家庭住房条件、缓解相关社会问题，又能够促进经济增长，这种发展型社会政策的特殊属性影响了该政策的扩散速度和扩散范围。研究还发现，政策内容会随着政策扩散过程发生变化，政策创新的采纳与采纳后的政策执行不同步，且呈现出较大的地方差异。

Literature on policy innovation and diffusion largely focuses on exploring the patterns and mechanisms of policy diffusion while neglecting the actual attributes of the policy being diffused and how the policy evolves after its adoption and during diffusion. Drawing on the case of “Shantytown Upgrading” policy in China, this paper explores how policy attributes affect policy adoption and diffusion. It finds out that decision-makers considered the different attributes of the policy when they made decision to adopt “Shantytown Upgrading” and the specific policy attributes affected the speed and the mechanism of policy diffusion. The scope, range and nature of the policy were also transformed and redefined during the policy diffusion and implementation process. By highlighting how policy attributes affect policy adoption and diffusion, and what happens at the implementation stage in the political, economic and social context of the transitional China, this paper contributes both to the diffusion studies and China studies.

朱亚鹏、丁淑娟

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