Abstract:

Facing complicated domestic and international environments and the requirements of implementing systematic, integrated, and coordinated reforms, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study policy spillover effects. However, the existing studies mainly focus on single or certain policy areas. Scholars seldom explore the general law and logic of policy spillovers. This study examines the varied phenomenon of policy spillovers, clarifies the definition, classification, core mechanisms, and the influencing factors of policy spillover effect. Future discussions should examine how to predict, monitor, and evaluate the policy spillover effect in a better way, and how to improve this process by improving methods, procedures and technologies, so as to deal with the possible negative policy spillovers.

Key words: policy spillover effect, definition, classification, mechanism