时间：2025年6月20日（周五）上午10:00-12:00

地点：浙江大学紫金港校区创意楼A座729会议室

主讲人：徐伟教授

题目：Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China’s low-income housing policy

摘要：Central-local dynamics are crucial to understand the implementation of China’s reform policies and regional economic development. Until recently, the research has focused on either end of the political spectrum, celebrating the top-down channeling of neoliberal-like reforms led by the central government or detailing the bottom-up process of policy innovation and entrepreneurism centred on local states. Knowledge is not substantial about how the central state interacts with local authorities in the localization of central public policies and, to a lesser extent, why some policies are properly implemented at the local level but others not. Through investigating the implementation of major national low-income housing policies in Chengdu and Shanghai, we interrogate three proposed theoretical constructs: political conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency. Results show that institutional conformity manifests in crossscale consistency in policy goals, political obligation of local states to conform to the central authority, and balance between local incentives and central state sanctions. In the process of balancing local and central interests, the local development priorities are framed along the line of local state entrepreneurism favoring fiscal responsibility, economic efficiency, and economic growth. Finally, locally contingent factors often interact with and mediate external forces and have a significant impact on localizing public policies in China.

主讲人简介：

Wei Xu is Professor of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge and Visiting Chair Professor at the Center of China Modern City Study at ECNU. Dr, Xu received his training in urban and resource geography in China and Canada. His research has focused on understanding urban and regional development, land development and housing, labor market dynamics, and resource policy. Professor Xu was a former department chair and served Chair of China Geography Study Group of American Association of Geography, He has published 2 books, more than 130 journal articles and book chapters and has received millions of dollars in research funding from numerous funding agencies including Canadian Tri-Councils, SSHRC, CIDA, IDRC, Mitacs, and TECTERRA.

主持人：钱文荣，浙江大学中国农村发展研究院院长、浙江大学公共管理学院副院长