But it appears that only one major academic research center, the University of Michigan, has considered the pros and cons at its highest administrative levels.
Fostering policy innovation at the local level and diffusing successful practices to higher administrative level, even nationwide, are pervasive features of policy making in postreform China (Heilmann 2007, 2008; Zhu 2012, 2013).1 Local policy innovations in China have drawn enormous academic interest.
But they must await authorization and approval from higher administrative levels, the immediate one being the Senior Divisional Officer.
Additional research, quality improvement, and policy changes at higher administrative levels are needed to identify methods to sustain the use of LC among providers serving homeless veterans.
The representative of the RTCPP pointed out that the LTP did not emerge from a community-driven need, but was an initiative coming from higher administrative levels.
While it creates favourable structures through its influence on higher administrative levels (e.g. availability of funding), its impact on individual decision making seems to be rather marginal.
Although the majority of the projects (around 97%) take place at the level of municipalities, in some cases they refer to the higher administrative levels of provinces or regions.6 In these cases, we re-allocated the spending to the municipalities on the basis of the 2007 population.
The availability of improved datasets, such as census data at higher administrative levels or alternative satellite imagery, e.g. ASTER [25], are likely to also enable methodological and accuracy improvements.
The same process could be repeated at district or higher administrative levels.
