英文摘要 |
The New Energy Vehicle (NEV) industry is one of the industries in which China has obvious advantages in the fierce global high-tech competition. By fragmented authoritarianism, this paper explores the evolution of the central government’s NEV policies from 2001 to 2020 and conducts case studies on the NEV policies of Shanghai, Jilin, and Beijing. This paper divides the behaviours of provincial governments by their attitudes and strength into four typical kinds: complying, challenging, bargaining and pretending. The central government cannot monopolize the power to formulate NEV policies, but it can still punish the local government that violates orders. Provincial governments have strong policy autonomy and do not have to fully comply with the central government. They can even make the local policies that are contrary to the central policies. Even after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which is widely believed that the power of the central government has been comprehensively strengthened, provincial governments are still able to go against the central government’s decision on NEV policies. Fragmented authoritarianism, to a certain extent, can still explain the current central-local relationship in mainland China. |