ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that John Kingdon’s “multiple streams approach” to policy-making provides a sound framework for analyzing the Chinese model. It examines the drafting process of the three amendments of Chinese criminal law to identify the legislation’s stages and participants. Fake medications are not a new problem and have been haunting Chinese society for decades. Since 2000, there have been cases of manufacturing and selling fake medications every year, but national attention was only raised after fatal cases in 2006. According to Kingdon, the theory itself is not all-inclusive; rather, it is open to revisions in different contexts. Legislative initiative can be one option in a set of agendas. Tremendous bureaucratic development remains responsible for lawmaking, but the bureaucratic politics is unable to fully illustrate the current Chinese legislation. As a preliminary sketch, the process of problem recognition, generation of policy proposals and political evaluations will be analyzed successively.
