China is in the process of establishing a nationwide social insurance system that covers the
whole population for basic pension and medical insurance by 2020. The rapid increase in …

This research focuses on innovation and its diffusion in public services in authoritarian
China. A mechanism between vertical government intervention and diffusion of innovation in …

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 …

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 …

The rural pension policy in China is characterized by a high degree of instability. In the past
15 years since the introduction of pilot schemes in some regions, the state has been unable …

With the introduction of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme (NRSPS), pension coverage
in rural China has increased substantially during the last decade. We investigate how the …

This article elaborates on the theoretical issues related to the decentralization of social
provision within China's reform contexts. The major contention is that, due to the specific …

Purpose Existing research focuses on the pension systems and reforms in China from a
macro-level and financial perspective. The expectations of mid-life Chinese people …

While much has been written about rural migrant workers' experiences in the big cities,
population movements into China's vast network of towns and small cities has been largely …

This article examines the multifaceted roles of provincial media and officials in China's
Guangdong province in the national policy process, and their patterns in articulating policy …