To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational
policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of …

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of
political order, or" stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has …

Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension
programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government's largest expenditures …

Although regional policy experimentation has become a global trend, the distinct features of
experimentalist governance in a given country, such as China, remains to be investigated …

Recent studies of policy and policy actors in C hina have made use of the policy
entrepreneur concept that has been popular in studies of policy in N orth A merica and E …

Purpose–This paper aims to describe China's need for old‐age pension coverage in its rural
areas, to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the new rural pension system currently …

This article offers an account of the peculiar phenomenon of social policy learning in China,
and illustrates the situations in which local policy learning can either facilitate, or constrain …

While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic
modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy …

This article treats China's pension reform as part of the global spread of neoliberalism,
arguing that China's pension reform was a process of the triumph of neoliberal models …

China's social welfare reform since the mid-1980s has been characterized as incremental
and fragmented in three dimensions—social insurance, privatization, and targeting. This …