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7 - Center–Local Relations, Pandemic Politics, and Local Policy Styles in Comparative Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2022

Kerry E. Ratigan
Kerry E. Ratigan
Affiliation:
Amherst College, Massachusetts
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The conclusion recapitulates the book’s argument that Chinese provinces take different approaches to governing, which have impacted social policy implementation. This chapter discusses how recentralization under Xi Jinping may interact with local approaches to governing. The chapter also examines how policy style may have exacerbated local actors’ initial response to the novel coronavirus in 2019. The chapter concludes by discussing how the policy-style framework could be applied to subnational analysis beyond China and the broader implications of the argument.

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Chinasocial policyhealthcarewelfareauthoritarianismdecentralizationcomparative politicssubnational
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Local Politics and Social Policy in China
Let Some Get Healthy First
 , pp. 162 - 171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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