Search

Begin New Search
Proceed to Checkout

Search Results for All:
(Showing results 1 to 1 of 1)



How May National Culture Shape Public Policy? The Case of Energy Policy in China

Philip Andrews-Speed

Year: 2022
Volume: Volume 43
Number: Number 3
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.43.3.pand
View Abstract

Abstract:
This paper explores how aspects of national culture may shape the design and implementation of public policy, using the example of energy policy in China. It focuses on cognitive style and on political and legal culture. China's energy policies display a combination of pragmatism, incrementalism, internal contradiction and ambiguity. This is consistent with evidence from experimental psychology and history that the development of Chinese and East Asian cognitive styles have taken a path distinct from those of Western civilizations with their Greek philosophical heritage. These variations of cognitive style between cultures are reflected in brain function and genes. Policy implementation also bears features from imperial times in the political culture of China's Communist Party and the contemporary legal system. These arguments reinforce existing calls for caution when seeking to transfer energy or other public policy approaches between countries with different cultures.





Begin New Search
Proceed to Checkout

 

© 2024 International Association for Energy Economics | Privacy Policy | Return Policy