Policy-Oriented Learning: A Case on Initiating Long-Term Care Insurance in China’s Social Security Sector

Jian Zhang, Xiao Yu and Yanzhe Zhang
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Jian Zhang: Department of Marketing, School of Management, Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun 130012, China
Xiao Yu: Northeast Asian Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Yanzhe Zhang: Northeast Asian Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-13

Abstract: This paper explores the initiation process of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) policy in China’s social security sector, and focuses on policy-oriented learning activities to develop initiatives from German lessons. It presents a case from the LTCI pilot program, which serves as a new policy product that provides care to the elderly and disabled and upgrades the social security sector’s performance. This study implements policy-oriented learning to construct an analytical framework and applies it to China’s social security system. This research suggests that policy-oriented learning is a rational tool used to manufacture policy products that enable intellectual development and can provide roadmaps for administrative reform. The findings contribute to the current knowledge on policy-oriented learning by offering new insights from China’s experience with LTCI, thus helping to fill the gaps that are created when policy-oriented learning is applied to different systems and contexts, with unique cultural, traditional, and political characteristics.

Keywords: policy-oriented learning; Chinese aging problem; China’s social security sector; long-term care insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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