Energy reform in China: the professionalization of energy policy making

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6296984

Christoffersen, G

This dissertation is a study of energy-sector reform in China from 1979-1986. It includes two case studies of energy-policy formulation that indicate increasing reliance on technical expertise subsequently displacing intra-elite factional party conflict as a major determinant of energy policy. One case study is a decision to reduce petroleum exports in 1986 after the drop in world oil market prices; the other illustrates the formulation of the energy section in the Seventh Five-year Plan. Both studies indicate an expanded participation in formulating energy policy under the economic reforms. Energy reform has institutionalized technical expertise outside the domain of the producer ministries (e.g., the Ministry of Petroleum Industry) providing a policy assessment base that reflects other interests. A major ramification of this has been growing articulation of energy-consumer interests, household and rural, as well as other domestic users, previously an underprivileged class of consumers. This study is a political economy approach to understanding the linkages between Chinese domestic politics and foreign economic policy. Previous economic analysis left Chinese energy politics unexamined.

• Research Organization: Hawaii Univ., Honolulu (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6296984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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