The practice of municipal solid waste (MSW) in developing countries like China is changing
from mixed treatment to classified treatment, with the need of urban development. This …

Interjurisdictional learning is a key mechanism of policy mobility and diffusion, but the
literature on this mechanism is scarce and its prominence is often underestimated. In this …

China's New-type Urbanisation Plan heralded a new phase of reform of the household
registration (hukou) system and initiated a nation-wide reconfiguration of hukou policy in …

Since the late 1950s, more than 1,000 academic articles related to policy innovation and
diffusion have been published; most focus on how a policy spreads once it has been …

Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and
overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this …

How did China become one of the leaders in AI development, and will China prevail in the
ongoing AI race with the US? Existing studies have focused on the Chinese central …

This study examines the making of local climate governance in the Chinese setting where
central-local inter-governmental relations continue to play critical part in almost every policy …

Facing challenges of dealing with complex social and technical issues, Chinese government
has sought to enhance social credibility of policy decisions by soliciting expert advice. One …

Abstract In the Xi Jinping era of rising central power and reduced local autonomy, is there
still room for policy experimentation? If any, what is the nature of this innovative behavior …

This paper elucidates an analytical framework of the material-discursive nature of scalar
struggles by interrogating how the leaders of the Chinese city of Anshun responded to their …