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100			_aQian, Jiwei
245			_aDual decentralization and fragmented authoritarianism in governance: crowding out among social programmes in China
260			_c2016
300			_ap.185-197.
362			_aAug
520			_aIn this paper, we use city-level datasets of social assistance programmes over 280 cities between year 2003 and 2011 to verify the existence of the crowding out between social assistance programmes and unemployment insurance in China. In other words, the expansion of social assistance programmes is associated with a reduction in the enrolment of unemployment insurance. With verifying the existence of the crowding out, this article argues that the crowding out is a result of an ineffective coordination across government departments. In the process of dual decentralization, in which the central government has delegated welfare provision responsibility to local governments, the misalignment of incentive and institutions between central and local governments explains the ineffective coordination. Different from many studies in the literature, this paper presents an adverse consequence of China's bureaucratic incentive system in social policy implementation. Also, while the conceptual framework fragmented authoritarianism has highlighted the policy ineffectiveness in the economic policy area, this paper contributes to this literature by illustrating the policy ineffectiveness in the social policy areas.
650			_aSocial services - China
650			_aAuthoritarianism - China
650			_aDecentralization - China
650			_aSocial services
700			_aMok, Ka Ho
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
909			_a112439
999			_c112434 _d112434