Global Public Policy and Governance - Call for Papers: Inclusive Development: China’s Practices and Global Frontiers

Guest Editors

Yu ZHENG, Fudan University, China

Kathryn HOCHSTETLER, LSE, UK

Yijia JING, Fudan University, China

Aims and Scope

Over the past decade, the landscape of international development has been undergoing major transformations in missions, actors, strategies, and results. Alongside the 17 SDGs proposed by the UN, inclusive and shared development has become a key idea that revitalizes international development and brings in new practices and impacts. Inclusive development demands multi-party participation, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration at all stages and all aspects of development, aiming at sustainable, just, shared, and high-quality development results. Notably, inclusive development mandates the balancing of various development goals such as economic, social and environmental goals, and more equal and participatory approaches in engaging individual and organizational actors from different sectors and jurisdictions such as South-South Cooperation.

China’s development strategies, both domestically and internationally, have moved into a new stage. Domestically, China has achieved massive poverty reduction and declared the elimination of absolute poverty in 2020. Its recent efforts to narrow inequality in pursuit of the ultimate goal of “common prosperity” have promoted policies to increase the incomes of the poor while curbing excessive incomes of the wealthy. Internationally, China implemented aid policy reform and outlined a new strategy of international development cooperation through the establishment of China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) in 2018 and the launch of Global Development Initiative (GDI) in 2021, which presents a normative framework for China’s engagements with the SDGs.

These efforts on both fronts have attracted attention and speculations. To what extent have China’s development strategies effectively moved toward inclusive development? How has this shift affected China’s international development practices as well as those of other countries? What are the common and different features between China and other developing countries in adopting such a transformation, and what can be mutually learned?

This special issue builds on the presentations in the Roundtable “Inclusive Development: China’s Practices and Global Frontiers” of Shanghai Forum 2023 that is co-organized by the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy and the LSE Department of International Development. Aiming to develop debates through global and comparative lens, the special issue will explore the roles of emerging economies in contributing to inclusive development, with China and Asia as a major context while engaging perspectives from the Global North and other parts of the world.

Themes

We seek papers aligned with the theme of this special issue, welcoming innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. Submissions may explore suggested themes/questions, but are not restricted to them. Contributions extending beyond suggested areas while remaining thematically relevant are particularly encouraged. We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.

Global inequality and shared prosperity
Poverty reduction in comparative perspective
Industrial policies and inclusive development
Global cooperation and governance of international development
Foreign aid policies and practices
Discourse and theories of inclusive development
Nonstate actors in development
Strategies and practices in reconciling development goals

Working plan

Submission

Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages in English to gppg@fudan.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab) by 1 Nov 2023. Please include in the submission the research question(s), theoretical framework and/or empirical exploration, methodological approach, and preliminary findings.

The special issue editors will inform authors of decisions on proposals by 1 December 2023. Invited authors shall submit their full papers to gppg@fudan.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab) by 1 April 2024.

Publication

Authors will be given one month to revise their papers according to comments from the guest editors. They are then expected to submit papers directly to the online submission system of Global Public Policy and Governance by 1 June 2024. All papers will go through a peer review process organized by the guest editors. If accepted, the papers will be made available online first before they are published in print.

The format of research papers should comply with the style of GPPG (i.e., the APA reference style) and a word limit of 10,000 words. Details are available in this link (this opens in a new tab).

Reviewers should follow Springer Nature’s and the journal’s more detailed Peer-Review Policy (this opens in a new tab).

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 1 Nov 2023
Decision on abstract: 1 December 2023
Full paper submission: 1 April 2024
Revised paper submission to the EM system of GPPG: 1 June 2024
Expected publication: December 2024

Further Information

For questions regarding this special issue, please contact the guest editors at gppg@fudan.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab).

Guest Editors

Yu ZHENG is a Professor and Department Head of International Politics at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan University. He is an expert on global governance, international development, international political economy, and China-Global South relations. His publications have appeared in journals such as Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science in China, Socio-Economic Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, Third World Quarterly and the University of Michigan Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Fudan International Studies Review.

Kathryn HOCHSTETLER is a Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). From 2020-2023 she was Head of the Department of International Development. She has published widely on environmental and energy issues in Brazil and other emerging economics. Her most recent book is Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Other recent publications have appeared in journals including Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Science, and the Brazilian journal Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais.

Prof. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Co-Director of LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, social organizations, and collaborative service delivery. He is founding editor-in-chief of the journal Global Public Policy and Governance (this opens in a new tab) and a founding co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21st Century (this opens in a new tab). He is a co-editor of International Public Management Journal, and was an associate editor of Public Administration Review.

Global Public Policy and Governance - Call for Papers: Inclusive Development: China’s Practices and Global Frontiers

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