Public Money & Management (PMM)

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主题特刊：中国政府间关系：财政与管理 (Financing and Managing China’s Intergovernmental Relations)

中国公共财政和管理领域中的一个重要又争辩的议题是：政府如何融资和通过其五层、共计四万多个地方政府向14亿人民提供公共服务。要决定由哪一层政府提供资金和服务、并保障决策的有效施行是一个大挑战。在二十世纪七十年代晚期开始经济改革之前，中国的政治及行政权力高度集中于中央政府。后来，中央政府意识到地方性的公共服务由地方政府提供更为高效，就开始将部分权力下放到地方，并且鼓励政府之间及地区之间的合作。由于中国的国际影响力日益上升，中国政府间的财政及管理的经验将有助他国的公共政策制定者和管理者更了解中国是如何治理的。

随着PMM杂志加强对国际事务的关注和海外读者增多，这次中国主题特刊欢迎注重政府间关系及与其相关话题的三种财政与管理论文：长篇的主文， 中篇的关于新发展的文章，和短篇的辩论。 以下问题值得关注：

1、 中国政府间关系的政治背景、社会经济背景及其制度背景是什么？

2、 在分权的总趋势下，哪些类型的治理结构被提议并尝试过？有何特征？例如区域合作的内容，私营企业及社会资本的介入（比如说通过PPP公私合作模式）。有什么效果？

3、 政府间关系的安排是如何将以下因素考虑在内？ 例如：经济活动的本质（比如说基建项目，经济发展），公共服务的类型（比如对比环境保护和经济发展，对比基建项目和健康、教育和其他个人服务）。

4、 不同的分权安排有什么不同的财政及管理上的要求？财政分权政策是如何设计并施行的？有什么特点？其期望达到的效果是什么？其实际结果又如何？

5、 当前的中国政府间的财政及管理制度与其他国家、与中国历史上其他时期（包括新中国建立之前后）有什么异同？

6、 经济原则及管理措施是如何适应的调整？影响因素可能包括各地的不同管辖地位、资源禀赋、经济发达程度、财政能力、城市化程度、人口特征。

7、 中国采取了哪些创新性的政府间关系方式处理比较特殊情形? 例如： 历史遗留问题（比如说香港和澳门）、少数民族聚集（例如西藏和新疆）、经济改革试点（比如说深圳和上海）。

8、 各种改革措施是如何改变了政府间的财政能力、管理水平、风险分布及监管制度（例如推行以权责发生制为基础的财务报告）的情况？

9、 为何中国政府间财政政策发生了改变？是如何改变的？这些变化对下级政府的财政状况、管理措施及公共产品的提供有什么影响？

 

有意提交论文者请参照PMM的办刊旨意，评审标准，论文编写规范，及前例（见www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpmm20）。请将投稿的意愿和两页的文稿提要（包括不超过五条最重要的参考文献），于2016年10月30日之前通知香港城市大学的王小虎 XiaoHu Wang教授，其邮箱为 xwang65@cityu.edu.hk 或是 xwang1989@gmail.com。请勿使用PMM的网络投稿系统提交。

论文提案被接受的作者将被邀请于2017年4月30日之前提交一份完整文稿以供同行评审。审稿完毕后，获“修改后方接受”评语的作者务必在2017年9月30日之前提交修改稿。论文最终被接受的决定将会在截止日期之后尽快公布。期间亦可能会举行一场专题讨论会以便报告并改进那些被给予“修改后方接受”评语的文稿。请注意：应征论文不能同时提交给其他刊物或学术会议。

 

客座编辑： 王小虎 XiaoHu Wang，中国香港城市大学（xwang65@cityu.edu.hk）

客座编辑： 陈立齐 James L. Chan，美国芝加哥伊利诺大学 (jimchan@uic.edu)

 

 

An important and controversial area in Chinese public finance and management is how to finance and deliver public services to 1.4 billion people through more than 40,000 government units at five levels. Deciding which levels of government should provide and finance what services—and effectively implementing those decisions—is a challenge. Before the start of economic reform in the late 1970s, China’s political and administrative power was highly centralized at the national level. Since then, realizing that local services are more effectively provided by subnational governments, the central government started delegating authority and encouraging intergovernmental and regional collaboration as part of China’s economic and administrative reform. A better understanding of China’s intergovernmental finance and management will give public policy-makers and managers in other countries valuable insights in how China is managed at a time when its international influence continues to grow. 

 

Consistent with PMM’s broadening international readership and coverage, this China theme issue welcomes submissions (main papers and debate and new development articles) on the following intergovernmental relations and related topics:

 

· What is the political, socioeconomic and institutional context for China’s intergovernmental relations? 

· Within the broad trend of decentralization, what types of governance structure have been proposed and tried? What are their characteristics, for example the extent of regional collaboration, the involvement of the private sector and civil society (for instance through public–private partnerships)? With what effects? 

· How have intergovernmental relationship arrangements taken into account the nature of economic activities (for example infrastructure projects, economic development) and types of services (for example environmental protection versus economic development, infrastructure development versus health, education and human services)? 

· What are the financial and management requirements in various decentralized arrangements? How was the policy of fiscal decentralization been designed and implemented, with what features, expectations and results?

· How is China’s contemporary intergovernmental finance and management similar to, or different from, other countries and other periods in Chinese history, both before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic?

· How were economic principles and management practices adapted to take into account regional diversity in terms of legal status, natural resource endowment, economic development, fiscal capacity, urbanization, demographic characteristics and other factors?

· What innovative intergovernmental arrangements has China made to accommodate historical circumstances (for example in Hong Kong and Macao); ethnic minorities (for example in Tibet and Xinjiang); and economic reform experimentation (for example Shenzhen and Shanghai)? 

· How have reform measures changed intergovernmental fiscal and management capacity, risk distribution and monitoring (for example with accrual-based financial reports)?

· How and why has China’s intergovernmental fiscal policy changed? How have these changes affected subnational government’s fiscal condition, management practice, and public goods provision? 

Prospective authors are urged to refer to PMM’s editorial policy, review criteria, manuscript preparation instructions, and prior coverage on China; see www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpmm20. Expressions of interest and two-page proposals (including no more than five key references) may be sent any time before 30 October 2016 to Professor XiaoHu Wang, City University of Hong Kong, atxwang65@cityu.edu.hk or xwang1989@gmail.com; do not use PMM’s Editorial Manager system to submit.

Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a manuscript by 30 April 2017 for peer review. After the review period, authors of conditionally accepted manuscripts are expected to submit their revisions by 30 September 2017. Acceptance decisions will be made expeditiously after that date. A workshop for presenting and improving conditionally accepted manuscripts may be held. Submissions to PMM must not be under consideration by any other publication.

· Guest Editor: XiaoHu Wang, City University of Hong Kong (xwang65@cityu.edu.hk)

· Guest Editor: James L.Chan, University of Illinois at Chicago (jimchan@uic.edu)