The Growth Mechanisms of Local Spontaneous Policy Experiments from the Perspective of “Multiple-Streams” : A Case Study of the System of Technical Task Force
Huang Ansheng1,2, Xue Zexi3, Zhu Chunkui4
1. School of Public Administration and Law, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; 2. Center for Innovation Development and Public Policy Research, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; 3. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; 4. School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Abstract：Existing studies lack a systematic deconstruction of the growth mechanisms underlying the success of local spontaneous policy experiments.The System of Technical Task Force fully demonstrates the growth process of a local spontaneous policy experiment in China.By introducing a localized case of the System of Technical Task Force and employing Multiple-Streams Theory,stages heuristic and institutional change theory,this study analyzes the mechanisms by which a local spontaneous policy experiment gradually evolves into a national policy from the perspective of “multiple-streams” .It focuses particularly on elucidating the spontaneous start-up mechanism,implementation mechanism,discovery mechanism,and late-stage growth mechanism of policy experiments,while comparing the differences between local spontaneous policy experiments with “top-down” policy experiments.The results indicate that the growth process of local spontaneous policy experiments undergoes key stages including the convergence of problem stream and policy stream,the opening of “policy window” through the convergence of three streams and the coupling of policy stream and political stream.Policy entrepreneurs exert “precise efforts” in the start-up and implementation stages of local spontaneous policy experiments,demonstrate “discerning vision” in the discovery stage,and “aggregate energy from points and configure momentum over areas” in the growth stage,promoting local experiments towards nationwide adoption.Therefore,a well-designed and boldly explored local spontaneous policy experiment may gradually gain recognition from central ministries and up to the central government,ultimately growing into a national policy even without central support in the start-up stage,while the political stream remains in the incubation stage.This paper reveals the interactive coupling effects of three streams in policy innovation,the dynamic convergence processes and its Chinese characteristics.It fills the gap in research on the spontaneous start-up mechanism,offers a new research framework for analyzing the dynamic evolution mechanisms of Chinese policy innovation,and contributes unique Chinese case to global policy process theory.
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Huang Ansheng, Xue Zexi, Zhu Chunkui. The Growth Mechanisms of Local Spontaneous Policy Experiments from the Perspective of “Multiple-Streams” : A Case Study of the System of Technical Task Force. , 2025(8): 103-110.
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