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Policy Experimentation under Pressure in Contemporary China

Alexander S. Heffer; Gunter Schubert · The China Quarterly 253, 35–56 · 2023

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Alexander S. Heffer; Gunter Schubert
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DOI 10.1017/S0305741022001801

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DisputedWhether local experimentation declined under Xi Jinping's centralisation is disputed: Heffer and Schubert, analysing over 3,000 local government documents, argue that local governments are still expected to innovate and are now punished if they do not, a pattern they call experimentation under pressure.