我院陈永杰副教授在社会政策领域著名期刊Social Policy & Administration发表学术论文

        中山大学中国公共管理研究中心、政治与公共事务管理学院副教授陈永杰（第一作者）与台湾大学施世骏教授（第二兼通讯作者）合作的论文“Central Coordination, Regional Competition, Local Protectionism: Social Decentralization in China’s Long-term Care Reform”近日被社会政策领域著名期刊Social Policy & Administration录用并在线刊出。

摘要：

Changing central-local relations shape social policymaking and implementation in China. We develop a social decentralization perspective to explore various inter-governmental dimensions in the formulation and implementation of social policy, based on experimentation in the provision of long-term care insurance starting in 2016. As localities devised new programmes, they initiated innovations in the context of central-local relations with Chinese characteristics. Three areas are duly examined: central coordination, regional competition, and regional protectionism. Intending to develop a national programme but reluctant to provide support through tax revenues, central government coordination reflects in both the central government's selection of cities across regions and allowing room for local diversity—some with deliberate experimental purposes—a feature which generated regional competition between pilot cities. Furthermore, as additional contributions for pilot programmes in some cities are waived, this process entails resource extraction from existing funding surpluses, unleashing local protectionism contrary to central government interests. Our analysis finds that the central government faces a dilemma: either meeting new social needs at the cost of increased regional inequality or balancing social policy developments across regions by enacting necessary programmatic reforms that sap central resources and weaken the central government's coordination capacity. These dynamics of social decentralisation will shape the future development and impact of Chinese social policy.

线上刊发链接：：https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.12854