摘要

A key feature of Chinese governance is the strong and strategic engagement of a very powerful central government in local policy implementation capacity building. Employing data from local collaborative cross- jurisdictional infrastructure projects, this research develops a theoretical explanation for a key question regarding the Chinese governance model: under what policy circumstances does the central government engage in local policy implementation capacity building? The results reveal that a local policy implementation obstacle becomes a salient candidate for central intervention when local political disputes accumulate to indicate a significant outcome for the engagement. This insight, through further testing and refinement, can be used to develop a comprehensive explanation of the Chinese government's capacity building process for policy implementation.

引用

Wang, X., Li, J., Yuan, Z., & Xu, J. (2025). Chinese central government intervention in local policy capacity building: When and why. China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, *25*(1), 1-41, https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/image/catalog/journal/jpreview/CR25.1_1-41.pdf.