How May National Culture Shape Public Policy? The Case of Energy Policy in China
以中国能源政策为例，探讨民族文化（特别是认知风格和政治法律文化）如何影响公共政策的设计与实施，指出中国政策呈现实用主义、渐进主义、内部矛盾和模糊性，与西方文化路径不同。
This paper explores how aspects of national culture may shape the design and implementation of public policy, using the example of energy policy in China. It focuses on cognitive style and on political and legal culture. China's energy policies display a combination of pragmatism, incrementalism, internal contradiction and ambiguity. This is consistent with evidence from experimental psychology and history that the development of Chinese and East Asian cognitive styles have taken a path distinct from those of Western civilizations with their Greek philosophical heritage. These variations of cognitive style between cultures are reflected in brain function and genes. Policy implementation also bears features from imperial times in the political culture of China's Communist Party and the contemporary legal system. These arguments reinforce existing calls for caution when seeking to transfer energy or other public policy approaches between countries with different cultures.