Public Policy and Administration Review

Study on Obstacles and Strategies of Policy Termination of China’s Mark Adding policy of College Entrance Examination-Based on Multiple Streams Framework of Policy Termination
Su Zhiying, Feng Feng

Abstract
Why China’s mark adding policy of college entrance examination has realized only partial termination? Based on the multiple streams framework of policy termination, the factors affecting policy termination of incentive mark adding involve change of policy environment, intensified social contradictions for policy alienation and abuse of adding points, institutional defects, national mood pressure, ruling party ideology appealing for education justice, successful opening of window of opportunity, policy entrepreneurs’ continuous soft-up and spillover effects of college enrollment and recommendation system reforms etc.; On the other side, the reasons for failure to enter into agenda setting of policy termination of compensatory mark adding are mainly undeveloped immature three streams, namely lack of experience in resolving critical issues, lack of feasible and advocating policy alternatives and appropriate political climate, thus fail to terminate due to difficult to achieve positive coupling of three streams. Additionally, compared with compensatory mark adding policy, incentive mark adding policy has more obvious and favorable evidence to promote the convergence of three streams, so as to open the window of opportunity. Due to the realization of partial termination, as well as termination obstacles including institutional, technological, and psychological factors, gradual termination could be proposed as the termination strategy.

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