A concept of policy cycles has gained dominance in the literature on the People's Public of China. This article examines the model, its usage, and its underlying assumpment and limitations, and contrasts it with a suggested alternative, a social learning model. A rgue that for the People's Republic, neither model is adequate to explain the development of policy, and suggest a synthesis of the two models, using Hirschman's 3) model of “problem-solving styles.”
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