Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
8-2015
Abstract
A government's political identity is a key factor in meta-governance; it powerfully shapes a government's policy aims and implementation preferences at the most abstract level and forms a stable governance mode. Dissonance between a pre-existing governance mode and the government's evolved political identity will lead to governance failures and pose political challenges to the government. In the case of vegetable retail in Shanghai, the neoliberal developmental state transformed the hierarchical governance into market governance; but as it evolves into a corporatist welfare state, market imperfections come to be perceived as governance failures, and the government responds by reintroducing hierarchical measures.
Keywords
Meta-governance, Political identity, Comparative analysis of governance modes, Urban food retail, Archival research and interview, China
Discipline
Agribusiness | Asian Studies | Politics and Social Change
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
Volume
17
Issue
4
First Page
378
Last Page
392
ISSN
1387-6988
Identifier
10.1080/13876988.2015.1020630
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles / Springer Verlag (Germany)
Citation
ZHANG, Qian Forrest.(2015). State political identity and meta-governance: Comparative analysis of governance modes in vegetable retail in urban China. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17(4), 378-392.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2085
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2015.1020630