The 16th Annual JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshop

 

Comparison of Policy Experiments: Practices in the Asia-Pacific Region

The 16th Annual JCPA and ICPA-Forum Workshop

Hosted by

School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Beijing, China

Date:

March 30-31, 2018

Venue:

School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University

（清华大学公共管理学院）

JCPA Workshop Steering Committee

Iris Geva-May, Founding President, International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum and Founding Editor-in-chief, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Leslie A. Pal, Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management of Carleton University and Executive Editor, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Xufeng Zhu, Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Local Organizing Committee of 16th JCPA Workshop at Tsinghua University

Faculty Committee:

Yongheng YANG, Xufeng ZHU, Ciqi MEI, Zhilin LIU, and Xiaoli LYU

Administrative Team:

Min LIU, Qin QIN, Zejun JIA, Wei XIA, and Mingshuai HE

 

Schedule

Mar. 29th, Thursday, Evening
18:00-20:00Dinner for guests from outside Beijing
Mar. 30th, Friday, Morning, Room 620
9:00-9:30Registration
Chair: Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University
9:30-9:40Opening Speech

Speakers: Iris Geva-May, International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum

Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University

9:40-10:40Adopt or not & Innovation Variation: A Dynamic Comparison Study on Policy Innovation and Diffusion Mechanisms

Presenter: Lei Guo, Tongji University

Discussant: Yue Guo, Beijing Normal University

10:40-10:50Coffee/tea Break
10:50-12:00Local Government in the Process of China’s Experimentalist Pension Reform: A Formal Model and Its Empirical Tests Through Subnational Comparison (1997-2010)

Presenter: Ke Meng, Tsinghua University

Discussant: Qiang Zhao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics

12:00-13:45Lunch Break
Mar. 30th, Friday, Afternoon, Room 620
Chair: Iris Geva-May, International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum
14:00-15:00Regional Experimentations of Health Insurance Policies: A Comparative Study on Three Chinese Pilot Schemes for Rural and Urban Residents

Presenters: Xufeng Zhu & Guihua Bai, Tsinghua University

Discussant: Leslie A. Pal, Carleton University

15:00-16:00A comparative study of the ability of democracies (and authoritarian regimes) to effectively tackle long-term issues in general, climate ‘crisis’ in particular

Presenter: Yukio Adachi, Kyoto University

Discussant: Iris Geva-May, International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum

16:00-16:10Coffee/tea Break
16:10-17:10Regional Experimentations of Health Insurance Policies: A Comparative Study on Three Chinese Pilot Schemes for Rural and Urban Residents

Presenters: Qiang Zhao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics

Discussant: Lei Guo, Tongji University

17:10-18:10Piloting in a federal governance structure: a case of Indian agriculture

Presenter: Sreeja Nair, Nanyang Technological University

Discussant: Xufeng Zhu, Tsinghua University

18:10-20:00Awarding Ceremony & Reception Dinner

 

 

Mar. 31st, Saturday, Morning, Auditorium at 1st Floor
8:45-10:00AP-PPN Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches

Iris Geva-May, International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum (35minitues)

Zhiyong Lan, Tsinghua University (35minutes)

10:00-10:15Coffee/tea Break
10:15-12:00AP-PPN Sessions
12:00-13:45Lunch Break
Mar. 31st, Saturday, Afternoon, Room 620
Chair: Leslie A. Pal, Carleton University
14:00-15:00Wirewalking: Managing the risk of Incremental Political Reform in China 1980-2003

Presenter: Ciqi Mei, Tsinghua University

Discussant: Liang Ma, Renmin University of China

15:00-16:00Beyond Bureaucracy: The Effects of Policy Piloting on Citizens’ Environmental Awareness in China

Presenter: Yue Guo, Beijing Normal University

Discussant: Ke Meng, Tsinghua University

16:00-16:10Coffee/tea Break
16:10-17:10The Role of Policy Labs in Policy Experiment and Knowledge Transfer: A Comparison between Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK)

Presenter: Liang Ma, Renmin University of China

Discussant: Sreeja Nair, Nanyang Technological University

18:00-20:00Gala Dinner
Apr. 1st, Sunday
8:30-18:00AP-PPN Sessions

 

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