Chen, Bo, Shen, Wei, Newell, Peter and Wang, Yao (2017) Local climate governance and policy innovation in China: a case study of a piloting emission trading scheme in Guangdong province. Asian Journal of Political Science, 25 (3). pp. 307-327. ISSN 0218-5377

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Abstract

This paper investigates how piloting programmes in China can promote local policy innovations. By using one of the piloting emission trading schemes (ETS) in Guangdong province as a case study, it is argued that the main features of the piloting experiments, particularly in the climate change domain, are largely different from previous local marketization experiments that dominate the reform period of China. Whereas previous experiments are often characterized as bottom-up or indigenous initiatives with strong patronage relations to the pro-reform politicians at central level, the current piloting programmes are often crafted in a top-down fashion that is often misaligned with local market or corporate interests. Hence, local policy innovations are designed, developed and brokered by the local state officers,in order to bridge this central–local interest gap. As a result,successful implementation of these policy innovations largely depends on local political traditions, bureaucratic culture and perceptions of distinctive development needs.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Policy Experiments; Policy Innovation; Emission Trading; Carbon Markets; Climate Governance; Climate Policy; China
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > International Relations
Research Centres and Groups:	Centre for Global Political Economy Sussex Sustainability Research Programme
Depositing User:	Peter Newell
Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2017 10:32
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2023 08:52
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/69937

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