College student conscription serves as a critical measure to improve the quality of military personnel and optimize the troop structure under the goal of strengthening the military in the new era. Nanjing has implemented a series of national and provincial conscription policies for college students and rolled out local supporting incentive measures to steadily promote conscription work in local universities. Based on Smith’s policy implementation model, this paper constructs a revised Smith analytical framework to address the original model’s insufficient attention to individual implementers. From four dimensions, namely idealized policy, policy implementers, target groups, and policy environment, combined with questionnaire surveys and interview data. This paper analyzes the achievements of Nanjing’s college student conscription policy, sorts out practical difficulties in policy delivery, explores the underlying causes, and puts forward countermeasures to optimize policy implementation. It aims to further unleash the effectiveness of the college student conscription policy and provide references for conscription practice in local universities.
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Jiang, C., Lv, L. (2026) Research on the Implementation Effect of College Student Conscription Policy in Nanjing – Based on the Revised Smith Model. Journal of Social Development and History, 2(4), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.71052/jsdh/BIIM6383