Policy Communities in a Leninist State: The Case of the Chinese Economic Policy Community¹

Why FCTC Policies Have Not Been Implemented in China: Domestic Dynamics and Tobacco Governance

“…If tobacco industry doesn't develop well, the Party Secretary should be held accountable. The tobacco industry is an important way to reduce poverty and become rich; therefore, the government cannot afford to give up tobacco production'' (''Zhao Kezhi's In China, only those policy communities that are created from above and initiated by leadership in power can influence public policy making (Halpern 1989). Given the inextricable political connections of the CNTC with the government, the influence of the antitobacco networks headed by NGOs pales in comparison with that of antitobacco policy networks elsewhere.…”

Creating an Infrastructure for Comparative Policy Analysis

“…They were part of the intellectual movement that generated the IPSA Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (SOG), as described in the recent essay by fellow travelers Guy Peters and Colin Campbell (2016). Volume 2, issue 1 of the new journal consisted of a special issue on “policy communities as global phenomena” organized by John Creighton Campbell and with an introduction by Jack L. Walker, Jr. (see Baskin ; Baumgartner ; Campbell ; Campbell et al ; Halpern ; Walker ). We collectively explored the concept of policy communities, suggesting that this was a fruitful analytical framework for comparative research on the policy process, with contributions focusing on the United States, France, Japan, Yugoslavia, and China.…”