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Central Mandates in Flux: Local Noncompliance in China

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  • Ting Gong
  • Alfred M. Wu

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This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our findings show that although the central pay mandates were issued under a number of conditions that favored, or should have even guaranteed, their smooth implementation, local reactions to the mandates have deviated from central expectations. The mandated pay raises have not only failed to win local compliance but also given rise to widespread pay arrears. Based on empirical data from two Chinese counties, this article analyzes the causes of local noncompliance and its implications for intergovernmental management. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.

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  • Ting Gong & Alfred M. Wu, 2012. "Central Mandates in Flux: Local Noncompliance in China," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 42(2), pages 313-333, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:42:y:2012:i:2:p:313-333
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    1. Wu, Alfred M. & Wang, Wen, 2013. "Determinants of Expenditure Decentralization: Evidence from China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 176-184.
    2. Yongzheng Liu & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & Alfred M. Wu, 2017. "Fiscal decentralization, equalization, and intra-provincial inequality in China," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 24(2), pages 248-281, April.
    3. Ahlers, Anna L. & Heberer, Thomas & Schubert, Gunter, 2015. "'Authoritarian Resilience' and effective policy implementation in contemporary China: A local state perspective," Working Papers on East Asian Studies 99/2015, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST.
    4. James Alm & Yongzheng Liu, 2014. "China's Tax-for-Fee Reform and Village Inequality," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(1), pages 38-64, March.
    5. Alfred M Wu, 2019. "The logic of basic education provision and public goods preferences in Chinese fiscal federalism," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(12), pages 1-15, December.
    6. Youngping Sun, 2018. "China’S Target Responsibility System And Convergence Of Co2 Emissions," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 63(02), pages 431-445, March.

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