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Social Assistance in China, 1993–2002: Institutions, Feedback, and Policy Actors in the Chinese Policy Process
Author(s) -
Hammond Daniel R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
asian politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1943-0787
pISSN - 1943-0779
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-0787.2010.01239.x
Subject(s) - china , bureaucracy , livelihood , psychological intervention , process (computing) , variety (cybernetics) , political science , state (computer science) , social policy , space (punctuation) , economic system , economic growth , public administration , economics , politics , computer science , law , operating system , psychology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , biology , agriculture
From 1993 to 2002, the emergence of the urban resident Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (MLG) system saw a major reconfiguration and expansion of social assistance in the People's Republic of China. The development of the MLG has been a complex process. The initial emergence and design of the MLG reflect space in the Chinese state for innovations and feedback in the social assistance agenda. The expansion and development of the MLG can be explained by the interventions of key policy actors. These actors pushed the MLG for a variety of different reasons. The resources available to these actors and the outcomes of their interventions were a reflection of their institutional position in the bureaucracy. Contributing to existing studies of Chinese social policy reform, this article argues that the emergence, design, and development of the policy reflects institutional space, constraints, and feedback in the Chinese policy process.