Call for Proposal (China and the Global South The Role of Policy Transfer for Development in Africa and Southeast Asia).pdf

Panel of 2020 Shanghai Forum

China and the Global South: The Role of Policy Transfer for

Development in Africa and Southeast Asia

May 10, 2020

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Organized by:

Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan

School of Public Policy, LSE

LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy

Cosponsored by:

Global Public Policy and Governance

This panel focuses on the dynamics of transferring the developmental experiences that led to China’s dramatic economic rise to countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. The formulation of suitable policies based on these experiences, their delivery and local absorption and assimilation form the core of the panel’s work. Case studies in sectors such as industrial policy and agricultural policy in different regions will form the content of the panel’s contribution to these debates. Assessment of how this furthers the Sustainable Development Goals will be an important component of the panel’s work. Understanding these dynamics is critical to the success of China’s role in fostering African and Southeast Asian development in the 21^st century.

The academic exploration of this panel is located in multiple streams of social science studies including development studies, policy transfer, and area studies, and it highlights a directional change of knowledge/institutional transfer for development from a North-South path to more diverse and interactive landscape. Participants of the panel are expected to share their research from specific perspectives with a purpose to contribute theoretically to our understanding of such emerging linkages between China and Global South.

Research papers for the panel may examine different aspects of policy transfer from China to Global South, including, but not limited to:

• The status quo of policy transfer from China to Global South;

• Channels, mechanisms and factors shaping the characteristics and effects of policy transfer;

• Comparative policy transfer studies;

• Policy learning, adoption, and diffusion;

• Case studies of policy transfer;

• Development performance of policy transfer;

• National/regional contexts and policy transfer.

Publication plan

The journal, Global Public Policy and Governance (GPPG), aims to publish a special issue on it in 2021 based on the papers presented in the panel. GPPG is an English journal published by Springer with a focus on comparative and global studies on policy and governance issues. The journal is hosted by the Institute for Global Public Policy of Fudan University and the LSE-Fudan Research Center for Global Public Policy.

Co-chairs

Chris Alden, Professor, Department of International Relations, LSE

Yijia Jing, Professor and Dean, Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University

Scientific Committee

Jing Gu, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development, Institute of Development Studies, UK

Xiaoyan Liang, Lead Education Specialist, World Bank,

Alvaro Mendez, Co-director and Senior Research Fellow, Global South Unit, LSE

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Yu Zheng, Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

Schedule

• Submission of abstracts for panel: by Feb 10, 2020

• Acceptance decision and feedback: March 1, 2020

• Submission of the drafts of the papers: May 1, 2020

• Panel in Shanghai planned on May 10, 2020.

Contribution format and procedures

• Extended abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words, including:

• Name of the authors (indicating participants), affiliation, title and position, email and address, article title, theories/perspectives, research methods, and tentative results and findings.

• Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words.

• Abstracts and papers should be submitted by email only. Please email your abstract to: chinapa@fudan.edu.cn

•    Label your message “Abstract for the Policy Transfer Panel 2020”.

• Abstracts and papers should be submitted in MS Word format (version 97-2003 or any more recent version). Save the file as the paper major title plus the last name of the first author.

Logistics

• We will offer three-night hotel on May 9-11 (one room per paper), and provide conference meals.

• We will provide round-trip tickets (economic) for participants, preferably to participants who can deliver a full paper either during the panel or soon after it.

• The organizer will pay participants’ registration fee to the Shanghai Forum 2020.

Brief information of the co-chairs

Professor Chris Alden teaches International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is a Research Associate with South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). He is author/co-author of numerous books, including Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (Palgrave 2003), South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy (Adelphi Paper IISS 2003), China in Africa (Zed 2007), Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa (Palgrave/Macmillan 2009) The South and World Politics (Palgrave 2010), Foreign Policy Analysis – new approaches 2nd edition (Routledge 2017), and co-editor of China and Africa – Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent -- China and Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalist (Johannesburg: Jacana 2014), China Returns to Africa (Hurst 2008).

Prof. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, Co-director of LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy, and Seaker Chan Chair Professor in Public Management of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He got his BA/MA in Economics from Peking University, MA in Sociology from University of Maryland College Park, and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Ohio State University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, and collaborative service delivery. He is editor-in-chief of Fudan Public Administration Review and co-editor of International Public Management Journal. He is the founding co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21 Century. His recent publications include an edited book: New Development Assistance: Emerging Economies and the New Landscape of Development Assistance (Palgrave Macmillan).