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Enlisting citizens: forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China

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  • Fan Yang
  • Zhihan Zhang
  • Shizong Wang

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This article examines how the Chinese government increases the effectiveness of policy implementation by resorting to citizen participation. Based on an in-depth case study of the waste classification policy implementation in county T, province Z, this article demonstrates three citizen-enlistment strategies applied in the local state: (1) local-elites enlistment, (2) social norms innovation, and (3) blurring the role boundaries between citizens and frontline bureaucrats. This article also illustrates the citizen-enlistment motivations of governments: (1) to increase the dynamic and controllable working staff in policy implementation, (2) to maintain a flexible social control system to reduce accountability pressure, and (3) to overcome information asymmetry by holding citizens responsible for their suggestions and claims. In general, the citizen-enlistment strategies, to some extent, facilitate the effectiveness of policy implementation in the local state.

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  • Fan Yang & Zhihan Zhang & Shizong Wang, 2022. "Enlisting citizens: forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China," Journal of Chinese Governance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 400-417, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:400-417
    DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1846294
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