중국의 정책지식 확산 과정에서 간보(簡報)의 역할과 한계

Abstract

Internal materials are particularly important for understanding the flows and developments of policy knowledge in China. Understanding the diffusion of policy knowledge, which refers to that the decision makers of policies exchange and pull together their opinions through various channels, is the key for the studies of policy knowledge diffusion. Brief reports(簡報) provide the firsthand evidences that prove the diffusion of policy knowledge. They are internal materials for circulations only inside an organization. Previous studies about policy decision making in China largely discussed the organizations of decision coordination and explained how the mechanisms of policy decision making diffuse, and how these mechanisms influence policy decision makings. Based upon existing literature, this study tries to understand and disclose the channels through which opinions and/or suggestions diffuse when the China's policy departments set up their agendas. In this study, I explore the processes during which the opinions and proposals are diffused through different intermediaries before and/or after they are submitted to the decision coordination organizations. In other words, this study investigates the brief reports which serve as the intermediaries and channels of the diffusion of policy knowledge.