TY - GEN
T1 - Central Government Poverty Policy and Local Resistance
T2 - A Comparison of Dibao Regulations Across State Levels
AU - Rosenmeier, Christopher
AU - Kolmos, Maja
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Chinese government has implemented a means-tested social security net for the poorest known as dibao. We compare dibao legislation from the State Council, the Shandong provincial government, and the Qingdao municipal government. As a case study, this comparative analysis of dibao legislation across different state levels and time periods provides a method to analyze differences between central and local government levels. We show that local governments are able to subvert the intentions of the central government by adding sections and altering the language in key passages. This type of horizontal and vertical reading of multiple texts reveals priorities and differences between government levels in ways that are not apparent in any single text.
AB - The Chinese government has implemented a means-tested social security net for the poorest known as dibao. We compare dibao legislation from the State Council, the Shandong provincial government, and the Qingdao municipal government. As a case study, this comparative analysis of dibao legislation across different state levels and time periods provides a method to analyze differences between central and local government levels. We show that local governments are able to subvert the intentions of the central government by adding sections and altering the language in key passages. This type of horizontal and vertical reading of multiple texts reveals priorities and differences between government levels in ways that are not apparent in any single text.
UR - http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/global_asia_journal/14/
M3 - Other contribution
VL - Paper 14
T3 - Social and Cultural Research Occasional Paper Series
CY - Global Asia Journal
ER -