Governance in Transition: The Political Economy of Subnational Policy Reform in Southeast Asia and China

转型中的治理：东南亚和中国地方政策改革的政治经济学

• 批准号: 134594092
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christian von Lübke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Hochschule Konstanz Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung (HTWG)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-31 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/134594092?language=en
• 关键词: Governance; Transition; Political; Economy; Subnational

Have decentralization and local democracy led to better government performance?The evidence in the developing world is mixed. Institutional efforts to ‘move governments closer to people’ have produced highly diverse results. Theoretical explanations for these policy variations remain controversial: while some literatures highlight societal or elite-based pressures, others point to differences in subnational economic structures.This study proposes a synthesis of existing agency and structural theories. The main hypothesis is that subnational governments are more service-oriented (and less corrupt) in areas with moderate economic concentration: the right balance of interest group coherence and competition paves the ground for broad-based reform coalitions between societal forces and government leaders. To test this hypothesis, this research will focus on three Asian transition countries with pronounced decentralization reforms: Indonesia, the Philippines, and China. By combining comparative case studies and regression analyses, I seek to shed new light on the political economy of subnational reform. The results of this study will inform decentralization and governance literatures and contribute to regional policy debates on subnational development.

权力下放和地方民主是否带来了更好的政府绩效？发展中国家的情况好坏参半。“使政府更接近人民”的体制努力产生了各种各样的结果。这些政策变化的理论解释仍然存在争议：虽然一些文献强调社会或精英为基础的压力，其他人指出，在次国家的经济结构的差异，本研究提出了现有的机构和结构理论的综合。主要的假设是，在经济适度集中的地区，地方政府更注重服务（也更少腐败）：利益集团一致性和竞争的正确平衡为社会力量和政府领导人之间的广泛改革联盟奠定了基础。为了验证这一假设，本研究将重点关注三个进行了明显权力下放改革的亚洲转型国家：印度尼西亚、菲律宾和中国。通过结合比较案例研究和回归分析，我试图阐明新的政治经济学的地方改革。这项研究的结果将为权力下放和治理文献提供信息，并有助于关于国家以下各级发展的区域政策辩论。