Book contents
- China’s Governance Puzzle
- China’s Governance Puzzle
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 China’s Approach to Governance Reform
- 2 Concept, Chronology, and Drivers of Transparency Reform
- 3 Transparency and Corruption: Analysis of Variation Within China and Hypothesis Testing
- 4 Comparing Approaches to Combating Corruption: The Guangdong and Chongqing Models
- 5 Concept, Chronology, and Drivers of Participation Reform
- 6 Participation and Compliance: Analysis of Variation and Hypothesis Testing
- 7 Making Policy in Public: A Comparison of Three Chinese Provinces
- 8 The Road Ahead
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - Concept, Chronology, and Drivers of Participation Reform
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2017
- China’s Governance Puzzle
- China’s Governance Puzzle
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 China’s Approach to Governance Reform
- 2 Concept, Chronology, and Drivers of Transparency Reform
- 3 Transparency and Corruption: Analysis of Variation Within China and Hypothesis Testing
- 4 Comparing Approaches to Combating Corruption: The Guangdong and Chongqing Models
- 5 Concept, Chronology, and Drivers of Participation Reform
- 6 Participation and Compliance: Analysis of Variation and Hypothesis Testing
- 7 Making Policy in Public: A Comparison of Three Chinese Provinces
- 8 The Road Ahead
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this chapter we examine the emergent role of participatory decision-making in China. We begin by introducing the theoretical framework that we use to understand public participation in single-party regimes like China. Next, we track the origins and evolution of participatory decision-making in China itself. Initially adopted as a means for implementing unpopular price changes, public participation procedures (e.g., expert consultations, public hearings, and, more recently, online notice-and-comment) have increasingly made their way into central and local decision-making procedures. Whereas only a handful of provinces experimented with participatory decision-making in the early 2000s, today nearly all legislation and administrative policy proceeds through at least one of these procedures. Why are China’s leaders encouraging their citizens to engage in policy? We put forward the proposition that authoritarian policy crafted with public input is more likely to be perceived as legitimate, more likely to be complied with, and less prone to fail.
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- China's Governance PuzzleEnabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State, pp. 153 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017