Amid growing tensions surrounding disruptions to the existing order of global balance of power, countries around the world have long ramped up their science and technology investment in the hope of securing better economic as well as national security. Given the profound ramifications for the stability of the global community, the astounding speed and the breadth of China’s technological advancement in particular have been a topic that received substantial international attention. At the same time, the traditional burden-sharing structure between the central government and the local government went through a fundamental alternation under the Tax Sharing Reform such that the share of local government investments in science and technology now outshadows that of the central government. Hence, this paper aims to 1) analyze determinants of Chinese local governments’ science and technology expenditure and 2) identify patterns of regional disparities in investment practices between the country’s Eastern, Middle and the Western regions. Drawing on the theories of fiscal capacity and budgetary incrementalism, we conduct a fixed-effects model analysis of 2003-2016 budget expenditure data from 278 prefectures in China while controlling for a wide scope of social, economic and political factors. The findings of the analysis indicate that Chinese local governments’ science and technology expenditures have statistically significant correlation with socioeconomic factors (population, level of regional economic development, and the shares of the secondary and tertiary industries), characteristics of party committee secretaries (age at the time of appointment and the level of education), fiscal elements (level of fiscal independence) and the pull of budgetary incrementalism (past years’ science technology expenditure). Further, although the influence of budgetary incrementalism was present in all regions, its effect was most pronounced in the Western region followed by the Middle and the Eastern region.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Background and Existing Research 2.1. Theoretical Background 2.2. Literature Review 3. Research Design 3.1. Variables 3.2. Research Scope and Data 3.3.Analytical Framework 4. Results 4.1. Descriptive Statistics 4.2. Results 5. Conclusion 5.1. Summary 5.2. Policy Implications Reference
키워드
Chinese local governmentsscience and technology budget expendituredeterminants of budget expenditureregional disparitiesfixed effects model.
저자
박룡 [ Piao Long | 서울대학교 행정대학원 ]
조정래 [ Jeong Rae Jo | 한국교육개발원 ]
Corresponding Author
부산대학교 중국전략연구소(구 부산대학교 중국연구소) [Institute of China Strategy]
설립연도
2006
분야
사회과학>사회복지학
소개
본 연구소의 설립을 통해 우선 한중 양국 국민의 상호이해와 교류증진을 위한 인문, 사회과학적인 연구는 물론이고, 이를 통해 기업(인)이 중국에 안정적인 정착과 교류를 할 수 있는 각종 환경을 조성하고자 한다.
게다가 본 연구소는 기존의 연구소의 기능과는 달리 단순한 학술 교류에 머물지 않고 인적 교류를 통해 양국관계의 이해를 증진하고 나아가 한국과 중국의 각종 프로젝트를 적극 유치, 개발함으로써 지속적으로 재원의 창출을 도모하고자 한다.