While it is widely agreed that local governments played a critical role in infrastructure building and industrial development in China – as key factors in its “economic miracle” - the relationship between local government entrepreneurship and the development of specialized markets through...

This paper proposes to integrate disparate notions of governance capacity by adopting a resource-based view of capacity. Governance capacity can be defined as the set of organizational and systemic resources necessary to make sound policy choices and implement them effectively. Adopting this...

There is no denying that policy actors matter in driving policy change. Most of the policy process frameworks argued for the centrality of policy actors but have similarly contended that the occurrence of policy change is contingent upon the dynamic interaction of policy actors, organizations...

This study assesses the usefulness of conceptions of policy capacity for understanding policy and governance outcomes. In order to shed light on this issue, we revisit the concept of governance, derive a model of governance types and discuss their capacity pre-requisites. A model of capacity is...

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of many technologies that have the potential to fundamentally alter our economic, social, and indeed personal lives. The problems they pose are in many ways unprecedented, posing serious challenges for policymakers. How should governments respond to...