中国之治:“五位一体”总体布局下的区域政策互动研究

研究考察中央政府如何治理地方政府逐底竞争。本文提出,五位一体总体布局本质是中央政府根据人民利益设置的多任务晋升锦标赛,地方政府因地制宜选择政策、指标开展竞争,政策与指标关系多元避免全局性逐底竞争。实证部分分别采用对称互动模型和非对称互动模型考察我国企业职工基本养老保险政策省际互动。结果显示,我国企业职工基本养老保险政策省际互动显著,但未出现竞相降低企业缴费率的情况,党的十八大后省际互动减弱。该结果表明,五位一体总体布局治理地方政府逐底竞争有效,提供了协调央地关系的中国方案。

The Governance of China: Regional Policy Interaction Driven by the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan

This paper explores how the China’s central government tackles the race to the bottom among the local governments. The central government sets up the multi-task promotion tournament,the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan,which drives the local governments to make policy-indicator decisions. And the diverse relationship between certain a policy and indicator averts a nationwide race to the bottom. Using a symmetric interaction model and an asymmetric interaction model,this paper investigates the provincial interaction regarding to the basic pension policy for corporate employees. The results show that the provincial interaction,which does not follow the race-to-the-bottom way,is significant and decreases after the CPC’s 18 th National Congress in 2012. These findings state that the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan is an effective approach to govern the local governments’ race to the bottom and a China’s solution to coordinate the central-local relationship for the whole world.