Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy Making Facilitated China’s Rise

282 Pages·2018·1.595 MB·English

by  Sebastian Heilmann

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RED SWAN
How Unorthodox Policy Making
Facilitated China’s Rise
SEBASTIAN HEILMANN
The Chinese University Press
Red Swan:
How Unorthodox Policy Making Facilitated China’s Rise
By Sebastian Heilmann
© The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2018
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CONTENTS
vii List of Tables and Figures
1 Introduction
China’s Policy Process and the Resilience of
the Communist Party-State
17 Chapter 1
China’s Adaptive Governance as a “Red Swan”
in Comparative Politics
45 Chapter 2
From Local Experiments to National Policy:
The Origins of China’s Distinctive Policy Process
73 Chapter 3
Policy Experimentation and Institutional
Innovation in China’s Economic Transformation
115 Chapter 4
How to Combine Policy Experiments with
Long-Term Priorities: Unorthodox Lessons from China
131 Chapter 5
Making Plans for Markets:
Policy for the Long Term in China
147 Chapter 6
The Reinvention of Development Planning in China
197 Epilogue
Changes in China’s Policy Process under
General Secretary Xi Jinping
221 Notes
255 Abbreviations
257 Glossary
261 Index
LIST OF TABLES
AND FIGURES
Tables
1.1 Distinctive Contemporary Governance Techniques 37
That Originated During the Revolutionary and
Mao Eras (1927–76)
1.2 Transformative versus Protective Policy Styles and 40
Adaptive Capacity
2.1 Establishing “Model Experiments”: A Comparison of 67
the Approaches in the Mao and Deng Eras
3.1 Major Types of Experimental Zones Designated by China’s 85
Central Government
3.2 Patterns of Experimentation in Crucial Areas of Economic Reform 93
3.3 “Experimental Point” Programs in China’s State Sector, 1978–97 95
5.1 Redirecting Plan Functions in China since the 1980s 135
6.1 Binding and Indicative Targets of the 11th and 12th Five-year 156
Plans
6.2 Macro-regional Plans and Experimental Schemes 161
viii | LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
6.3 Plan Formulation in China: The Example of the 11th 175
Five-year Plan
6.4 Recombined Governance in Chinese Development Planning 186
7.1 Events That May Trigger a Crisis Mode 202
7.2 Characteristics of the Normal and Crisis Modes in 204
Chinese Politics
7.3 A Stable Exterior with Underlying Fragilities: How Resilient is 207
China’s Political Order to Unexpected Shocks?
7.4 Characteristics and Methods Attributed to a “Chinese 212
Development Model”
Figures
3.1 Experimental Regulation in China, 1979–2016 82
3.2 China’s Experimentation-based Policy Cycle 88
7.1 China’s Path to Political and Economic Transformation 199
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