TY - BOOK AU - ZHU Xufeng TI - Policy synthesis through regional experimentations: comparative study of the new cooperative medical scheme in three Chinese provinces PY - 2020/// KW - CHINA KW - POLICY KW - MEDICAL KW - POLICY KW - POLICY, CHINA, STRATEGY N2 - This research explores policy synthesis via regional experimentations as a novel policy experimentation model. In policy synthesis, the upper government determines instruments for each element of a national policy by communicating with and learning from the experiences of local governments and then synthesizes the policy elements by conducting large-scale experiments. This study analyzes the experimentation of the Chinese New Cooperative Medical Scheme as a case to demonstrate the feasibility of applying policy synthesis. It also compares the experimentations conducted in three provinces and reviews the strategy adopted by the central government UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1700664 ER -