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100			_aAlex Y Lo _957445
245			_aThe neoliberal policy experimentation on carbon emission trading in China/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 38, Issue 1, 2020 (153–173 p.)
520			_aChina’s emission trading schemes are introduced as a prelude to a nationwide scheme. They allow authoritarian centralized control to strengthen, while making room for decentralization and business engagement. This article explores a mechanism that accommodates these contradictions. Our objective is to elaborate on the dynamic between centralizing and decentralizing forces. In China, the ongoing process of neoliberalizing climate change policies is organized around an institutionalized practice of policy experimentation. This practice has created conditions for stabilizing the existing structure of hierarchy. Primarily based on semi-structured interviews, our analysis reveals a number of system vulnerabilities linked to the uncertain and fragmented carbon markets, policies, and institutions. They problematize existing practices and allow the state to negotiate priorities and relations of power across scale. Pragmatic considerations about feasible solutions legitimize further intervention by the state and centrally coordinated policy measures. Key system vulnerabilities and the prospects for national-level action put these local policy experiments under a shadow of hierarchy. This article discusses one way in which local policy initiatives gain legitimacy while reinforcing hierarchical control. It advances the knowledge about China’s attempt to neoliberalize its climate change policies.
700			_aChen, Kang _957446
700			_aAnna Ka-Yin Lee _957447
700			_aMai, Lindsay Qianqing _957448
773	0		_08872 _917105 _dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010 _tEnvironment and planning C: _x1472-3425
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419843533
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