How does the Policy Experiment Network work?Taking the Classification Policies of Urban Household Waste as An Example
Policy experimentation is an important institutional window for understanding China's innovative restructuring and gradual development.Existing research is mostly limited to the occurrence mechanism and organizational model of policy experiments from the perspective of central-local governments,and pays less attention paid to the impact of the relationship interaction between policy subjects on policy outcomes.Based on the Policy Network Theory,this article constructs an intergovernmental network framework of"three rounds and six tracks"system,distinguishing the roles of actors in central government,pilot areas and non-pilot areas in coordination,demonstration and benchmarking competition,and analyzing the causal mechanism of changes in urban household waste classification policies.The research has found that policy entities adopt differentiated action strategies at different stages of the pilot project to respond to changes in task situations,resulting in mutual adaptation of network structure characteristics and policy outcomes.In the intergovernmental network of policy experiments,pilot tasks are vertically distributed to grassroots units through hierarchical decomposition.Pilot areas and non pilot areas compete for tasks based on evaluation and recognition as the driving force for innovation competition.The central government corrects policy execution deviations based on the effectiveness of the experiment and the political potential of different strengths and weaknesses.The marginal contribution of this article lies in not only expanding the theoretical framework of the dual track policy experiment,enriching the explanatory mechanism of intergovernmental behavior interaction in the perspective of network governance,but also providing new ideas and directions for understanding the evolution and development of China's public policy system.
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