Panel Paper:
Policy Oriented Learning: The Case of Long-Term Care Policy in China
Monday, July 29, 2019
40.012 - Level 0 (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
The lesson-drawing and policy transfer in the literature on policy learning offers rich intellectual development and promising roadmaps. However, it offers only a partial explanatory power with serious theoretical limitations when applied to different contexts. This study addresses a policy learning-oriented direction to construct an analytical framework, and applies it to the social security system in China. Employing the case of Long-Term Care Policy, this work examines the policy changes in China’s social security through the lenses of learning from Western examples, using their experiences for adaptation in China. The paper contributes to knowledge on policy learning by offering new insights from China’s policy learning experiences with long-term care policy issues; it helps fill in the gap in policy learning as applied to different systems and contexts with unique cultural and traditional as well as political characteristics. The paper concludes with an acknowledgment of the successes and potential challenges facing the social security and long-term care systems in China. The policy learning process has just started and has a long way to go; it is still muddling and not through.
