Published in Review of Policy Research, the article discusses how Organization C* successfully promoted Britevilla* - a poverty alleviation model - as part of China's anti-poverty campaign.

They argue that the campaign was successful because:

1. the problem was framed as severe and politically salient 
2. the proposal aligned with central priorities and 
3. sufficient local capacity existed to translate the model into practice

They further argue that the case of Britevilla shows how GONGOs can broker innovation in an authoritarian polity and suggest that local governments under strong central steering may adopt field-tested models from trusted intermediary actors.

Read the full article online

'Policy Windows in an Authoritarian System: How alignment, Leadership Signals, and Disasters Enabled Policy Entrepreneurship in China's Poverty Alleviation', Review of Policy Research, 13 July 2026.