Infrastructure provision in China: A cross-sectoral and multi-level analysis

尽管存在许多通常被视为对成功的基础设施发展非常不利的治理相关因素，但中国通过各种措施在基础设施项目提供方面达到了与西方工业化国家标准相同的效率水平。在这个谜题中，这个研究项目旨在找出在中国的威权和分散的政治体系中，基础设施提供成败的关键决定因素。通过研究基础设施治理对不同行业、行政级别和融资模式的项目结果的影响，该项目提供了对决定中国近几十年基础设施繁荣方向和结果的政治过程的相对洞察。通过澄清治理因素如何决定和影响中国一书中基础设施提供的逻辑，该项目进一步旨在解决现有治理文献中的不一致之处，并最终扩大其覆盖范围，纳入中国案例。

Despite the presence of numerous governance-related factors commonly viewed as highly adverse to successful infrastructure development, China across various measures reaches levels of efficiency in infrastructure project provision that are on par with standards in industrialised Western countries. Engaging with this puzzle, this research project aims to identify key determinants for the success and failure of infrastructure provision in China's authoritarian and decentralised political system. Studying the impact of infrastructure governance on project outcomes across different industry sectors, administrative levels and financing models, this project offers comparative insight into the political processes that determine the direction and results of China's infrastructure boom of recent decades. By clarifying how governance factors determine and affect the logic of infrastructure provision in China, this project furthermore aims to resolve inconsistencies within the existing governance literature and ultimately expand its reach to incorporate the Chinese case.