{"id":1395,"date":"2018-05-02T05:09:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2018-05-02T05:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:09:57","slug":"a-choice-architecture-perspective-on-chinas-central-local-fiscal-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2018\/05\/02\/a-choice-architecture-perspective-on-chinas-central-local-fiscal-arrangement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Choice Architecture Perspective on China\u2019s Central-Local Fiscal Arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Choice Architecture Perspective on China\u2019s Central-Local Fiscal Arrangement<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2014 Setting Reasonable Restraints of the Fiscal Powers of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Chinese Central Government<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rui Guo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This paper sets forth a constitutional analysis on the allocation of fiscal powers between the central and local governments, and advocates for reasonable restraints of the central government\u2019s fiscal power. Adopting a \u201cchoice architecture\u201d perspective, I argue that the fundamental feature of China\u2019s allocation of fiscal powers is the central government\u2019s dominant influence on the area, amount and means of the local government\u2019s fiscal spending, leading to the difficulty in realizing the central government\u2019s policy goals, in local governments\u2019 deciding their own policy goals, and in maintaining the quality of public service. The \u201cchoice architecture\u201d perspective highlights the necessity to subject the central government\u2019s fiscal powers to the constitutional principles on balancing the central-local relationship, which is provided in article 3 of the Chinese Constitution and article 89, 99 and 107 that define the powers and obligations of the National People\u2019s Congress, the People\u2019s Congresses of the local levels, the national government, and the governments of the local level. Based on the constitutional analysis, the reform of the allocation of fiscal powers between the central and local governments should (1) include the National People\u2019s Congress as well as the People\u2019s Congresses of the local levels, and (2) clarify that the judiciary should be in charge of solving potential conflicts related to the the fiscal power allocation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Key Words<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\uff1a<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fiscal Separation of Powers,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Chinese Central-Local Relations, the Project System, the \u201cControlling Power\u201dTheory, Choice Architecture, Fiscal Powers of Chinese Central Government<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Download\uff1ahttp:\/\/journal.pkulaw.cn\/PDFFiles\/%E5%A4%AE%E5%9C%B0%E8%B4%A2%E6%94%BF%E5%88%86%E6%9D%83%E7%9A%84%E2%80%9C%E9%80%89%E6%8B%A9%E6%9E%84%E7%AD%91%E2%80%9D%E8%A7%86%E8%A7%92.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Choice Architecture Perspective on China\u2019s Central-Local Fiscal Arrangement \u2014 Setting Reasonable Restraints of the Fiscal Powers of Chinese Central Government Rui Guo Abstract This paper sets forth a constitutional analysis on the allocation of fiscal powers between the central &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2018\/05\/02\/a-choice-architecture-perspective-on-chinas-central-local-fiscal-arrangement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-in-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}