A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change: the case of process-tracing China’s central government infrastructure PPP policies between 1988 and 2017

Huanming Wang, Bin Chen and Joop Koppenjan

Journal of Chinese Governance, 2022, vol. 7, issue 1, 27-51

Abstract: How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies from 1988 to 2017 by looking at evolving policy goals, policy measures, and policy co-issuing networks. Results suggest that China’s central government infrastructure PPP policy change follows a refined EG approach in which policies change incrementally in a layering pattern, primarily driven by learning. Findings provide a new account of incremental policy change.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151

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