Recognition of innovation and diffusion of welfare policy: Alleviating urban poverty in Chinese cities during fiscal recentralization

Xufeng Zhu, Hui Zhao · 2018 · Governance

Summary. Local Chinese governments adopted innovative welfare policies to attract central government attention and secure fiscal transfers during fiscal recentralization after 1994. Cities with higher fiscal dependency innovated more strategically. Once the central government recognized and endorsed an innovation, further adoption lost its competitive advantage because cities could no longer distinguish themselves through novelty. The study traces this dynamic through China's Urban Minimum Living Standard Assistance system for poverty alleviation.

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@article{zhu-2018-recognition-innovation-diffusion-welfare-policy,
  title   = {Recognition of innovation and diffusion of welfare policy: Alleviating urban poverty in Chinese cities during fiscal recentralization},
  author  = {Xufeng Zhu and Hui Zhao},
  journal = {Governance},
  year    = {2018},
  doi     = {10.1111/gove.12332},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12332}
}

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DOI

10.1111/gove.12332

Countries

China

Regions

Asia

Categories

policy, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation

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2026-04-28