| As it is more difficult and expensive for rural people to get access to medical care, medical scheme of social security system in rural areas has become a hot issue recently. Meanwhile various modes of new-type cooperative medical schemes (NCMSs) are being carried out everywhere in rural China, with different policy effects. Policy-makers and policy objects usually interact in a complicated way during the process, so an analysis into their roles and the influencing factors is the key to analyze policy process.Different from previous analysis which are mostly static description based on either macro approach (public sanitation service) or micro approach (NCMSs), this paper is a case study of NCMSs implemented in Xiqin Village, Xingcun Village, both in northern Fujian, and Jiuxian Town in northern Shanxi. The researcher puts these three different policy modes into an ideal type"government intervention-self management", analyzes interaction process between policy-makers and policy objects, and further discusses inner factors contributing to the process. Some suggestions are put forward in the end. What the researcher tries to prove is that new-type cooperative medical schemes is a complex and dynamic interacting process, whose effects are affected by both the government and rural people, and what, at the same time is a process involving interests, trust and stimulation interpreted by policy-makers and policy objects.The paper, focusing on new-type cooperative medical scheme, which is of grand importance in social policy research, has several new features as follows:(1) Xiqin Village, one of the target villages, has been tracked for nearly 3 years. Successional research makes it possible to exhibit the implementation process of the policy truly and vividly.(2) Putting the three samples into"ideal type"is good for comparison of different modes as well as induction of social experiment, as it can logically show the way NCMSs develops. |
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