Hillman, BenjaminHillman, BenTuttle, Gray2021-04-069780231169981http://hdl.handle.net/1885/229648This chapter provides an analysis of Chinese government policies in the region and the role of local governments in formulating implementing state policies. The chapter asks why local governments have been unable to use decentralized powers to experiment with policies that address local grievances, in the same way that local governments in other parts of China have been able to drive policy innovation.application/pdfen-AU© 2016 Columbia University Press201610.7312/columbia/9780231169981.003.00012020-11-22