Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1564490_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David H. Rosenbloom Author-X-Name-First: David H. Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenbloom Title: Public administration and the erosion of the rule of law in the United States Abstract: The failure of public administration theorists, researchers, reformers, and practitioners to make the rule of law the foundation of U.S. public administration has contributed to an erosion of constitutionality and legality in the national administration. Prominent contemporary threats to the rule of law include standardless delegations of legislative authority to administrative agencies, theChevrondoctrine and related judicial deference, the use of administrative guidance documents in place of rules, presidential legislation by executive order, aggrandizement through unitary executive branch theory, and policymaking by concerted nonenforcement of statutory requirements. Together, these threats contribute to massive constitutional distortion. This raises questions of whether it is time for public administration theorists, researchers, and practitioners to consider a ‘rule of law restoration’ initiative in the U.S. and use the American case examined here as a potential basis for considering the role of the rule of law in contemporary public administration worldwide. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1564490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1564490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1541657_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kenneth F. Warren Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth F. Author-X-Name-Last: Warren Title: Has democratic governance and the rule of law been compromised by the continued growth of the administrative state? Abstract: To place the administrative state into perspective, I first present the theoretical justifications for America’s traditional form of government followed by the theoretical justifications for the administrative state, especially promoted by early public administration scholars. I then present the prevalent scholarly viewpoint that we live in an administrative state where public administrators exercise not only administrative powers, but legislative and judicial powers as well because Congress has irresponsibly delegated away vast legislative powers to agency administrators, while the courts have provided scant review by deferring too readily to administrative expertise. To these scholars, this has undermined our checks and balance system and violated the rule of law. Although there is considerable merit to this position, for the sake of providing some balance, I present a rather polemical, opposing argument. I hold that the administrative state notion distorts the true governing system in America because Congress, the courts, and the president are still viable players that have and can continue to provide, if necessary, sufficient checks on the administrative state. I provide the reasons why. I conclude by questioning whether we even have an administrative state, but even if so, I offer evidence to suggest that the administrative state is constitutionally sanctioned, politically legitimate, upholds the rule of law, and actually performs better than our traditional three governmental branches. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 15-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1541657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1541657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:15-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1556482_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jon Gould Author-X-Name-First: Jon Author-X-Name-Last: Gould Title: When courts refuse to play by the rules (of law): the failure of public administration theory in securing constitutional rights Abstract: If there is any area of government in which one would expect to locate the rule of law, it would be in the courts. And, if there is any group of people deserving the protections of the rule of law, it would be the accused unable to afford an attorney. In the United States of America, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides a right to assistance of counsel, and both Supreme Court precedent and federal statute extend that right to indigent defendants in criminal cases while establishing that the representation provided is at least minimally effective. However, while these rights exist on paper, their protection has gone wanting in practice as the competing goals of federal judicial administration have starved indigent defense of sufficient funding and have failed to ensure that the attorneys and representation provided are adequate. Indeed, as federal judicial administration has become more ‘professionally’ focused – deferring to the administrative expertise of staff members and emphasizing cost-effective, results-oriented management – indigent criminal defendants have seen the adequacy of their representation fall, in turn threatening the rule of law. This paper tells that story by simultaneously explaining the growth of judicial administration at the federal level in the United States and showing how the federal courts’ increased focus on bureaucratic processes and staff expertise in cost containment have endangered the most vulnerable parties in the federal criminal cases. As such, the federal courts’ over-reliance on public administration theory and their failure to balance its implementation with other central goals threatens the rule of law in their very courtrooms. There is a way out of this morass, which a committee of the federal courts has even recommended: independence of the defense function from the courts’ administrative structures. Barring that change, a central constitutionally-protected right will remain at risk. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 34-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1556482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1556482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:34-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1565852_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Huiting Qi Author-X-Name-First: Huiting Author-X-Name-Last: Qi Title: Strengthening the rule of law in collaborative governance Abstract: Due to the incomplete legal foundation for collaborative governance, which leads to a set of problems, it is significant to promote the legal framework. Promoting the legal framework starts by enhancing ‘the rule of law’ in collaborative governance. This conceptual paper provides a framework for understanding the enhancement of the rule of law in collaborative governance. The enhancement of four important principles of the rule of law in key arenas of power in a collaboration is discussed. These four principles include predictability of the law, accessibility of the law, supremacy of the law, and equality before the law. Similarly, the arenas of power in a collaboration include participant selection in the antecedent phase of collaboration, process design and content selection in the process phase of collaboration, and performance measurement in the outcome phase of collaboration. This framework will shed light on the enhancement of the rule of law and the management of power relationships in collaborative governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 52-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1565852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1565852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:52-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1522025_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jie Gao Author-X-Name-First: Jie Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Title: Politics, law, and administrative discretion: the case of work safety regulation in China Abstract: Achieving a proper balance between administrative discretion, which promotes efficient and effective governance, and oversight of that discretion to ensure political responsiveness has been a classic and enduring issue in public-administration literature. This study joins the dialogue by examining the question in the context of China, where power is highly concentrated and there are not many checks and balances. By examining administrative discretion in work safety regulation, this study argues that in China’s context, the tension between efficiency and responsiveness is less explicit among the legislature, executive and judiciary powers, but more explicit between central and local powers. In other words, if local bureaucracies have considerable discretionary power, they may use this power to achieve local interests at the expense of national goals. To improve local bureaucracies’ political responsiveness, the Chinese leaders have adopted both legal and managerial measures. On the one hand, administrative discretion has been increasingly curbed through elaborate legislation. On the other hand, management reforms play a crucial role in bringing local leaders’ goals in line with national ones. China’s efforts to balance administrative efficiency and political responsiveness suggest that each country must choose solutions in keeping with its own context and problems. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 71-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1522025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1522025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:71-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1172402_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yun-Han Chu Author-X-Name-First: Yun-Han Author-X-Name-Last: Chu Title: Sources of regime legitimacy in Confucian societies Abstract: In this article, we examine the on-going debate over the legitimacy of the East Asia regime through a rigorous analysis of a recent Asian Barometer Survey data from 13 countries and territories. First, we compare the relative explanatory power of the elements ordained by Confucian political theory with that of the elements emphasized by the Western liberal tradition in explaining differences in level of regime support across different types of regimes. Next, we compare Confucian societies with non-Confucian societies to see if the Confucian propositions about regime characteristics and performances abode even better in societies that inherited Confucian cultural legacy. Third, we examine how traditional political–cultural predispositions interact with perceived regime characteristics and performances to affect respondents’ support for their country’s current regime. We found that the social and historical relevance of Confucian political theory is not limited to Confucian societies. Much like Communitarian theory, Confucian political theory presents a credible challenge (as well as an alternative) to Western liberal tradition in a much wider socio-cultural space beyond Confucian societies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 195-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1172402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1172402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:195-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1166904_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jiannan Wu Author-X-Name-First: Jiannan Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Yilin Hou Author-X-Name-First: Yilin Author-X-Name-Last: Hou Author-Name: Liang Ma Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: The Rise of Public Administration in China since 1978: driving forces, problems and prospects Abstract: This article examines the rise of the field of Public Administration (PA) in China from 1978 to 2006. It first identifies several major driving forces behind the creation of the field in the country’s reform context for a preliminary analysis; then examines some problems that have emerged from the quick expansion of the field, especially Master of Public Administration programs; finally offers suggestions for the field’s further development. This article contributes to the literature by dissecting the China case in developing PA in a reforming country. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 214-227 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1166904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1166904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:214-227 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1172401_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yanling He Author-X-Name-First: Yanling Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Guanglong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Guanglong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Order in chaos: re-understand social instability in China Abstract: Instability in China manifests as non-political demands, mass actions and conflicts between cadres and citizens. It can be attributed to the deficiencies of political institutionalization and the special role and function of the government in the process of market transition. Since 1978, the governance objective of the party-state has been catch-up growth while maintaining stability. This has created dual institutional roles for the State as both modern government and capital source. As compared to other transitional countries, three paradoxes were created by the restructuring of Chinese state governance to meet the government’s objective: an open, free market with government price controls; an empowered local government that must still accept tasks assigned and controlled by the central government; and, a lessening of societal suppression but social organizations are still limited. This quasi-decentralized governance structure produces several mechanical externalities. It has also lead to the dissipation of the collective welfare system, a deficient social safety net and the governmental absorption of market profits. This further instrumentalizes government functions and capitalizes public power, causing injustices among the distribution of rights, wealth and risk. Ultimately, this manifests as social instability. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 228-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1172401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1172401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:228-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1166903_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xufeng Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Xufeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Title: Dynamics of central–local relations in China’s social welfare system Abstract: Central–local relations have been always regarded as one of fundamental institutional arrangements that determine rapid economic development in China. However, the dynamics of central–local relations in China’s social welfare system have not been paid much attention. I argue, in this article, that China has moved from decentralization to recentralization in enacting its social welfare system, to address increasingly more serious social unrest stemming from loosened control over public welfare provision on the part of the central government during the decentralizing market reform era. The process of recentralization is embodied in three major policy instruments: (1) reintroducing the binding targets as a tool by which they could control local governments once again; (2) scaling up the proportion of special transfer payments and initiated central-guided regional pilot projects; and (3) strengthening line management and encouraging local administrative power to concentrate in provincial governments. I empirically illustrate the recent recentralization processes in several social policy fields such as public health, pension insurance, and basic education. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 251-268 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1166903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1166903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:251-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1166890_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yongshun Cai Author-X-Name-First: Yongshun Author-X-Name-Last: Cai Author-Name: Jing Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Jing Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Niche, connections and NGO operation in China Abstract: Social organizations play an important role in social governance because the government lacks sufficient resources and energy to address certain social issues. However, the political system determines the social space in which social organizations operate. In an environment where the operation of social organizations is heavily regulated, social organizations have to be strategic in their interaction with the government and in providing social services. Using a case of a non-government organization (NGO) that provides assistance to AIDS patients in China, this paper explores the strategies employed by NGOs in a regulated environment. This paper finds that identifying the right niche or areas of concern and finding the right partners are crucial factors that affect the feasibility and quality of the enforcement of initiatives or missions of NGOs. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 269-283 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1166890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1166890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:269-283 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1166891_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiaoming Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoming Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Zhenghan Cao Author-X-Name-First: Zhenghan Author-X-Name-Last: Cao Title: From manipulation to integration: the strategic transformation of grassroots control in China Abstract: How to control local officials is a basic concern among the state governance issues. This problem contains two reciprocally restricted dimensions: how to keep the officials loyal to central authority and accountable to citizens. Election recognized as a powerful method to control local officials has been deployed by many authoritarian governments. Especially, the party-state of China has implemented grassroots election for decades, which attracts a great deal of academic attention. Our field work and research find that compared with the election manipulation in the early stage, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been pushing forward the institutionalization of grassroots election. Meanwhile, several measures have been employed by the CCP to integrate the power-exercising of grassroots self-governance into the party–state system. This paper aims to demonstrate how the tension between loyalty and accountability structures the strategic transformation of grassroots control in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 284-302 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1166891 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1166891 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:284-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1172399_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: S. Philip Hsu Author-X-Name-First: S. Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Hsu Title: Asymmetrical adaptations to grassroots self-government between rural and urban China Abstract: This article explores how the party-state in China manages to cope with grassroots self-government (jiceng zizhi) in a changing social milieu. Specifically, the party-state resorts to simultaneous deployment of carrots and sticks, dubbed “dual adaptations” in this article, in coping with the leading organizations of grassroots self-government—villagers committee in the rural and residents committee in the urban areas. On the one hand, it attempts to maintain controls over them to prevent them from becoming alternative power centers, given their inherent potential for authoritative decision-making that could defy the party-state. On the other, it seeks to strengthen its own capacities to accommodate domestic changes, meet the mass demands, and shore up its legitimacy by fostering the mass political participation, competition, and problem-solving ability that offsets the state's inadequacies in governance via villagers and residents committees. The degrees to which the dual adaptations attain the party-state's intended goals, however, are asymmetrical in that they vary between rural and urban areas. This article thus discovers dual asymmetries in the adaptations—with one between rural and urban areas, and the other between the effectiveness in achieving the two goals, which helps enrich our understanding of the complexities in China's internal governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 303-323 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1172399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1172399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:303-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1181598_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fabiana Barbi Author-X-Name-First: Fabiana Author-X-Name-Last: Barbi Author-Name: Leila da Costa Ferreira Author-X-Name-First: Leila da Costa Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira Author-Name: Sujian Guo Author-X-Name-First: Sujian Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Title: Climate change challenges and China’s response: mitigation and governance Abstract: China clearly matters when it comes to global efforts to mitigate climate change and any successful international efforts to stabilize greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions must inevitably include the country. In terms of climate change responses, it is argued that governments are important actors that play a key role in defining appropriate rules, institutions and modes of governance to meet these changes at different levels and scales and in enforcing the defined rules and regulations. This article presents a detailed case study aimed at the analysis of how Chinese policies and governance structures related to climate change have evolved over the past 20 years, particularly from 1992 to 2015, and how they have influenced Chinese GHG emissions during this period. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 324-339 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1181598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1181598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:324-339 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1165403_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Abdelkader Derbali Author-X-Name-First: Abdelkader Author-X-Name-Last: Derbali Title: Global systemic risk ranking of Chinese financial institutions Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the systemic risk of the Chinese financial institutions following the financial crisis of 2007. We estimate the systemic risk of a sample composed by 70 Chinese financial institutions through the period beginning on 02 January 2008 to 30 June 2015. We utilize the SRISK as a measure of systemic risk. This measure aims to capture financial institutions activity stress and its potential to become systemic. The proposed measures capture not only individual financial institutions vulnerability, but also the stress dependency structure between them and the Chinese financial system. In addition, these measures can be quite useful for identifying systematically important banks. Furthermore, the empirical results show that the level of systemic risk supported by the Chinese financial institutions is very elevated. The contribution of each institution in the risk of the financial system in the China is very important. The decomposition of systemic risk indicates that the institution has the higher level of debt, contributes positively and extremely to systemic risk. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 340-372 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1165403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1165403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:340-372 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1172420_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liang Ma Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Governing civil service pay in China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 373-375 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1172420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1172420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:373-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1172419_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jingsong Li Author-X-Name-First: Jingsong Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Corporate power in global agrifood governance Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 376-378 Issue: 2 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1172419 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1172419 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:2:p:376-378 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1744260_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jianxing Yu Author-X-Name-First: Jianxing Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: Confronting and Governing the Public Health Emergency Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 137-139 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1744260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1744260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:137-139 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1741240_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ye Qi Author-X-Name-First: Ye Author-X-Name-Last: Qi Author-Name: Coco Dijia Du Author-X-Name-First: Coco Dijia Author-X-Name-Last: Du Author-Name: Tianle Liu Author-X-Name-First: Tianle Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Xiaofan Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Xiaofan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Author-Name: Changgui Dong Author-X-Name-First: Changgui Author-X-Name-Last: Dong Title: Experts’ conservative judgment and containment of COVID-19 in early outbreak Abstract: We present the case of the outbreak and containment of COVID-19 in its early stage and analyze the causes for conservative judgment of the disease control experts who are blamed for delayed action and inadequate response by the government. We find that the disease control experts have a clear tendency and preference to make conservative judgment about the epidemic risk of a low probability and high impact new disease. This conservative preference may have been a major factor in the judging and communicating the risk of COVID-19 epidemic. The experts’ perception of the epidemic risk is affected by their habitual thinking facing a low probability event with uncertain progression. Their conservative preference is augmented by political concerns due to the high social and political impact of the event and the potential political consequence of a false judgment. Balancing personal payoffs of decision options, the experts’ rational choice would lean towards a conservative decision. We propose a three-factor decision model that integrates habitual thinking, political concerns and rational choice to explain the experts’ conservative judgment, and corroborate the model with evidences from the case. We conclude the paper with policy implications for improving experts’ role in public health emergency response. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 140-159 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1741240 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1741240 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:140-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1740468_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edward Gu Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Gu Author-Name: Lantian Li Author-X-Name-First: Lantian Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Crippled community governance and suppressed scientific/professional communities: a critical assessment of failed early warning for the COVID-19 outbreak in China Abstract: The public governance of epidemic outbreaks faces great uncertainty. Successful governance is only possible with a competent early warning system, which hinges upon efficient production, sharing, and use of relevant knowledge and information. In this process, functional scientific/professional communities are critical gatekeepers. Analyzing China’s failed early warning for the COVID-19 outbreak, we show that an epidemic governance system dominated by bureaucratic forces is doomed to failure. In particular, we identify the lack of autonomy of scientific/professional communities—in this case, virologists, physicians, and epidemiologists—as one of the major contributing factors to the malfunction of the early warning system. Drawing upon the idea of community governance, we argue that only by empowering scientific/professional groups to exert efficient community governance can a state modernize its early warning system and perform better in combatting epidemics. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 160-177 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1740468 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1740468 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:160-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1744922_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiang Gao Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Author-Name: Jianxing Yu Author-X-Name-First: Jianxing Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: Public governance mechanism in the prevention and control of the COVID-19: information, decision-making and execution Abstract: In China, sub-provincial governments are responsible for managing public health emergencies. In the context of coordinating multiple stakeholders, the role of the local government can be defined as ‘meta-governance’. It shall provide rules to facilitate collective action and co-produce quality public services. However, the case of Wuhan suggests that some local governments still rely on the traditional administrative system, which hampers them in terms of issuing a sufficient response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Three measures can be taken to facilitate a public governance mechanism in public health emergency management. First, local governments can use the ICTs to create a more transparent information mechanism. The free flow of information could alert all stakeholders to potential emergencies, while the open government data form the base for cross-border collaboration. Second, a more comprehensive Public Health Emergency Preparedness is constructive for local governments in making quality and immediate decisions. This preparedness shall clearly define the responsibility of the involved agencies based on a careful evaluation of their qualification and capability. Third, the local government shall note that good governance requires more than an executive capacity based on command-and-control. It is necessary to develop the ability to work with stakeholders outside the bureaucratic system. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 178-197 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1744922 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1744922 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:178-197 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1745412_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Peng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Xiao Zhong Author-X-Name-First: Xiao Author-X-Name-Last: Zhong Author-Name: Suyang Yu Author-X-Name-First: Suyang Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: Striking a balance between science and politics: understanding the risk-based policy-making process during the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic in China Abstract: The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in China is, essentially, a public health emergency. Therefore, it becomes a critical issue to make policies by using scientific knowledge in a highly uncertain and unpredictable context. The key issue of risk-based decision-making (RBDM) is how to strike a balance between science and politics. After reviewing existing literature and practice, three main approaches to risk-based decision-making (RBDM) can be summarized: politics-based, science-led, and the integration and negotiation of science and politics. On the basis of public reports from current mass media, this article focuses on the time period from the releasing of the first COVID-19 case in Wuhan to the lockdown policy made by Wuhan municipal government, and we divide important stakeholders in early stage into two groups：scientist group and politician group. It finds that the RBDM process of Wuhan municipal government against COVID-19 demonstrated that politics intertwined tightly with science. Its RBDM process could be categorized into three phases: politics-based, science-involved, and science-led. We conclude six main characteristics of RBDM mechanisms in contemporary China. Finally, we argue that Chinese governments should establish institutionalized mechanisms for the negotiation and cooperation of science and politics in its RBDM process like COVID-19 epidemic. Five policy recommendations have been discussed to improve its RBDM quality in China’s context. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 198-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1745412 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1745412 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:198-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1744923_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hao Huang Author-X-Name-First: Hao Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Zongchao Peng Author-X-Name-First: Zongchao Author-X-Name-Last: Peng Author-Name: Hongtao Wu Author-X-Name-First: Hongtao Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Qihui Xie Author-X-Name-First: Qihui Author-X-Name-Last: Xie Title: A big data analysis on the five dimensions of emergency management information in the early stage of COVID-19 in China Abstract: The all-round and multilevel responses to the epidemic, with professional medical institutions, the governments and the public as the main agents of response and the media as the bridge of communication, are key to developing the public health emergency management system with regard to emerging infectious diseases and diseases with unknown etiology in the information age. This study creates an analysis framework concerning the five dimensions of information—the epidemic itself and the medical, governmental, public and media responses—and analyzes the evolution, interaction and trends of five dimensions using big data within the period of observation For the four dimensions other than the media response, the level of information related to the epidemic and the medical response is relatively high, while the level of response by medical institutions and the governments are similar, and both are higher than the public response. The media coverage of the epidemic remains at a high level of information. In relation to such diseases, the government should take the role of big data analytics seriously, lead a multi-agent social collaboration network, and further strengthen the ‘One Planning Plus Three Systems’ framework related to emergency management in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 213-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1744923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1744923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:213-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1745411_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Huan Yang Author-X-Name-First: Huan Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Peng Bin Author-X-Name-First: Peng Author-X-Name-Last: Bin Author-Name: Alex Jingwei He Author-X-Name-First: Alex Jingwei Author-X-Name-Last: He Title: Opinions from the epicenter: an online survey of university students in Wuhan amidst the COVID-19 outbreak1 Abstract: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov, COVID) in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 quickly escalated into a global health emergency. This study seeks to investigate the attitudinal and behavioral patterns of university students in Wuhan, the epicenter. Conducted in late January 2020, an online survey collected data from more than 8000 students of four elite national universities located in Wuhan. The students sampled included both Wuhan natives and non-locals who returned home in the early stages of the outbreak. The study notes widespread psychological stress among students but positive behavioral compliance with personal hygiene practices. Official announcements were the chief source of information for the respondents, who also demonstrated high demand for transparency of information disclosure. Some highly tight anti-epidemic measures were found at the local level. Albeit aggressive to certain extent, they may be necessary under such critical circumstances. The respondents offered varying evaluations of the performance of central government, local governments, civil society, and the health system in this public health crisis. The article concludes with policy implications and caveats. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 234-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1745411 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1745411 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:234-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1741940_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Binlei Gong Author-X-Name-First: Binlei Author-X-Name-Last: Gong Author-Name: Shurui Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Shurui Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Lingran Yuan Author-X-Name-First: Lingran Author-X-Name-Last: Yuan Author-Name: Kevin Z. Chen Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Z. Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: A balance act: minimizing economic loss while controlling novel coronavirus pneumonia Abstract: The outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) has significantly affected China and beyond. How to effectively control such epidemic has gradually become a global issue. This paper reviews the economic impact of major epidemics such as SARS, H1N1, and Ebola at the micro-, sector-, and macro-level. The challenge of effective epidemic control is to achieve a balance between viral transmission reduction and economic cost. This paper then summarizes three main methods to evaluate the effectiveness of several control policies. We also find that the adequacy and authenticity of information disclosure is of great importance to minimize economic loss, as either public panic due to overestimation or lack of public awareness due to underestimation can cause additional negative economic impacts. Accurate and transparent disclosure of information plays a crucial role associated with fighting against the epidemic. Finally, the paper puts forward a number of policy recommendations to minimize economic loss while controlling the spread of COVID-19. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 249-268 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1741940 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1741940 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:249-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1666544_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Run at most once. Zhejiang experiences and Chinese concept Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 269-271 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1666544 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1666544 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:269-271 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1759292_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 272-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1759292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1759292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:2:p:272-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2090171_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dongwei He Author-X-Name-First: Dongwei Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Guangcai Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Guangcai Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Kai You Author-X-Name-First: Kai Author-X-Name-Last: You Author-Name: Jun Wu Author-X-Name-First: Jun Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Property rights and market participation: evidence from the land titling program in rural China Abstract: The incomplete and unstable property rights of farmland in rural China hinder the development of the nation’s farmland rental market. The Chinese government implemented a land titling program in 2008 and conducted several pilot programs in various provinces to remove the barriers resulting from ambiguous property rights. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper investigates the effects of rural land titling on market participation in rural China. First, we provide novel evidence regarding the impact of land titling on land market participation and investigate the heterogeneous wealth effects and geographic locations of land rental decisions. Second, we examine the endogeneity of land titling program implementation through empirical analysis. Our results indicate that clear and well-defined farmland property rights increase land rental activities and raise rental prices. We also find a significantly negative wealth effect in land transfer decisions, indicating that land titling encourages poorer farmers to rent out farmland. Land titling is found to promote land transfer, with the strongest effect in central China, and raise rental rates, with the largest increase in western China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 110-133 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2090171 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2090171 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:110-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1879452_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yujie Gan Author-X-Name-First: Yujie Author-X-Name-Last: Gan Title: Governance, legitimacy, and decision-making capability of the Chinese national social security fund-against the backdrop of international comparison Abstract: To deal with the pension crisis, many countries have established the ‘Public Pension Reserve Funds (PPRFs)’. The Chinese government has also established the Chinese National Social Security Fund (NSSF), a typical PPRF to deal with the Chinese pension crisis. This paper focuses on the governance issues of the Chinese NSSF. More specifically, it focuses on the NSSF’s board to determine its decision-making capabilities, during which I will talk about the expertise and representation issues in the NSSF. The paper found that, first, the NSSF’s board may have more symbolic significance than substantive powers, which may be the result of the government’s endorsement of the legitimacy of the NSSF. Second, we found that the representation and expertise tension that prevail in Western pension funds governance also exist in China’s NSSF, and the analytical framework for this tension is also applicable to the discussion of Chinese cases. Third, through international comparison, we infer that an efficient board of directors might be a necessary condition for the pension funds’ good performance, but not a sufficient condition. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 34-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1879452 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1879452 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:34-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2024693_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jiawen Huang Author-X-Name-First: Jiawen Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Yeqing Huang Author-X-Name-First: Yeqing Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Kaize Wu Author-X-Name-First: Kaize Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Tenure of office, political rotation and the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in China Abstract: In discussing government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership of local officials is an important dimension that has been studied less than other aspects. From the perspective of political incentives, this paper empirically investigates the effect of the personal characteristics of municipal leaders, mainly their tenure of office and political rotation, on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic at the city level. The results indicate a negative relationship between tenure of office and the diagnostic rate of COVID-19. The experience of having diverse political rotation has strong positive effects on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, especially in places with higher infection risks and better health resources. Due to the division of labor and cooperation between the Communist Party of China and the government, municipal party secretaries and mayors play different roles in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings contribute to understanding the dynamic relationship among political incentives, bureaucratic behaviors and performance in the anti-epidemic process in general. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 134-159 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.2024693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.2024693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:134-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2035487_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yuan Li Author-X-Name-First: Yuan Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Yanjun Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Yanjun Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Author-Name: Catherine Owen Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Owen Title: Participatory budgeting and the party: Generating ‘citizens orderly participation’ through party-building in Shanghai Abstract: This article provides a qualitative examination of two cases of Participatory Budgeting (PB) in Shanghai – a long-running PB initiative in Minhang District, organised in cooperation with the District People’s Congress, and a one-off project in Yangjing Sub-district, Pudong, in 2017, jointly organised by a community foundation and residents’ committee. The article seeks to interrogate the relationship between the Party, state and society at the sub-municipal level through one ‘state-facing’ PB initiative and one ‘society-facing’ PB initiative. We reveal how PB is deeply embedded in Party structures and networks, formally in the case of Minhang and informally in the case of Yangjing. Our research contributes to three debates on participatory governance in urban China. Firstly, contrary to the existing literature, PB neither primarily ‘emancipates’ citizens nor off-loads budgetary decisions onto them; instead, PB contributes towards party-building and citizens’ orderly participation, thereby strengthening overall Party leadership. Secondly, we challenge the widely-used term ‘party-state’, instead separating out these three entities and showing how they serve distinct roles in grassroots governance innovations such as PB. Thirdly, we show how participatory mechanisms developed in one political and cultural context can have vastly differing effects when employed in another. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 56-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2035487 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2035487 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:56-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2008184_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yongli Luo Author-X-Name-First: Yongli Author-X-Name-Last: Luo Title: Management compensation and corporate governance reform in China Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of split-share structure reform on the dynamics between executive compensation and firm performance for Chinese public firms. Using panel data analysis and a dynamic GMM model, it reveals that the split-share structure reform has positive impacts on management compensation and firm performance. The reform results in significant liquidity and control effects on executive compensation shown by increases in market capitalization and decreases in state ownership of the firms. The results generally support the principles of agency theory and confirm the existence of performance-based pay scheme in Chinese public firms. However, evidence also demonstrates that Chinese management compensation practices may emphasize relation-based contracts rather than market-based contracts. This finding implies that government officials or corporate board members may ensure efficient incentives in situations involving weak corporate governance. The findings have important implications for investors, board members, and policy makers who wish to understand the lexicon of political science in emerging markets. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.2008184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.2008184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:1-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2064038_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lijing Yang Author-X-Name-First: Lijing Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Fei Sun Author-X-Name-First: Fei Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Author-Name: Shu Li Author-X-Name-First: Shu Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: What values are evaluated? An exploratory empirical study of the public values structure in Chinese local government performance evaluation through the case of the ‘Hangzhou model’ Abstract: Performance evaluations often convey values promoted by the government. However, it is unclear in the Chinese context what ‘performance’ means when referring to appraised values because little empirical evidence exists, particularly regarding the relations between values. This study examines Hangzhou, a pioneering case among Chinese municipalities of comprehensive performance evaluation, to analyze the relations between values. We examined 2,422 performance evaluation reports and policies released to the public. After conducting content and social network analyses, we theorized the public values structure were composed of relations of hierarchy, proximity, and causality. Our findings indicate prime values were listed prior to instrumental or market-driven values. The proximity between public interest and quality is demonstrated by the highest correlation coefficients. Each value cluster contains a causal relationship, indicating one value is the means to another. We discuss the values-oriented approach to performance evaluation, the contextual nature of public values studies, and the limits of using public satisfaction in performance evaluation. As an exploratory study, this work identifies values advocated by local governments in China; such findings are absent from existing research. Moreover, this study provides a practical method for empirically studying public values. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 83-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2064038 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2064038 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:1:p:83-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1791505_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paola Pasquali Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquali Title: Migration regimes and the governance of citizenship: a comparison between legal categories of migration in China and in the European Union Abstract: This paper aims at providing a general picture of how the citizenship migration nexus currently unfolds in China and in the European Union (EU). Although China is a nation state and the EU is a supranational entity, both entities are characterised by internal and external politico-legal borders delineating two self-contained migration areas. Drawing on a definition of citizenship which transcends its usual national connotation, this paper will review and compare how different migration categories available to individuals on the move (citizens and non-citizens) come with differential accesses to citizenship rights within the two contexts. The comparison will show that in spite of different approaches towards irregular migration, welfare and humanitarian issues, current categories of migration within these two migration regimes converge in the way in which they grant differential access to citizenship rights based on the (assumed) economic worth of individuals on the move. The final part of this paper reflects upon the lessons that each system could draw from the other and postulates such convergence as an indicator of the correlation between the granting of citizenship rights and neoliberal imperatives in the governance of migration worldwide. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 633-657 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:633-657 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1988267_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiaolan Yu Author-X-Name-First: Xiaolan Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: The three legal dimensions of China’s big data governance Abstract: Big data governance has emerged as an important area of focus in recent times. In this article, we study the state of big data governance in China, discuss the balance of interests in big data, and seek to develop the theory of big data governance in law. In the past years, some academic achievements have been made in big data governance theories, personal data protection, and data property rights protection based on existing research related to big data governance. However, conflicts of interest in big data have been under-studied and under-analyzed. In this article, we conduct an in-depth study of the state of big data governance in China and develop a theoretical framework for constructing multi-subject governance based on the interest balancing approach, including the allocation of personal data rights and the rights of a data controller, to resolve the conflicts of interests in big data governance in the areas of private law, public law, and industry self-governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 511-530 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1988267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1988267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:511-530 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1947643_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhiqiang Xia Author-X-Name-First: Zhiqiang Author-X-Name-Last: Xia Author-Name: Xingyu Yan Author-X-Name-First: Xingyu Author-X-Name-Last: Yan Author-Name: Xiaoyong Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoyong Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: Research on big data-driven public services in China: a visualized bibliometric analysis Abstract: The gradual establishment of systematic, equalized, and standardized basic public services has drawn attention of the academic community to the mismatch between supply-demand, and public dissatisfaction. Big-data-driven public services innovatively attempt to solve these problems, and reflect the theoretical essence of the process by which big data can empower the responsiveness of governments. In this study, we adopted the theoretical frameworks of ‘diversified needs–selective responses’, ‘risk shocks–forward-looking responses’, and ‘forward-looking predictions–creative responses’. We propose that big data-driven public services should respond not only to present needs but also to social risks and future needs. Therefore, it is imperative to review the status, problems, and future directions of big data-driven public service research in China. This study uses bibliometric visualization analysis on data from research projects, monographs, and journal publications. The results reveal that the main research topics are basic theoretical issues, service-oriented government development guided by big data strategies, practical innovation of public services in the context of smart governance, and the effective supply of big data-driven public services. Previous studies suffered from weak theoretical reflection and construction, lacked relevant institutions, had less fine-grained and fragmented technical support, and lacked foresight and guidance. Attention should be paid to normative theories and institutions in big data-driven public services to ensure that these services are more targeted and prospective; creative research should be conducted. The systematic summarization of the current state of research and reflections on prospective and creative research trends will provide new ideas regarding future research directions. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 531-558 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1947643 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1947643 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:531-558 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1870311_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhongyuan Wang Author-X-Name-First: Zhongyuan Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Su Yun Woo Author-X-Name-First: Su Yun Author-X-Name-Last: Woo Title: Deliberative representation: how Chinese authorities enhance political representation by public deliberation Abstract: Political representation centers on who claims to represent what and the extent to which the audience feels being represented. The mainstream body of scholarship on political representation has focused on electoral-based representation in the context of liberal-democratic settings. China provides an excellent case to study the phenomenon of non-electoral forms of political representation. This article seeks to address the question of how do the Chinese authorities enhance political representation by public deliberation in social welfare policy? Drawing on first-hand official documents and interview accounts from fieldwork conducted in Guangxi and Hubei, as well as secondary data sources, this article undertakes a mechanism-based comparative case study of these two localities, examining the different forms of citizen deliberation in poverty alleviation programs. It reveals that the party regime has developed an increasingly sophisticated set of strategies in establishing representation by deliberative consultation. Furthermore, two distinctive forms of deliberative representation, the state-authoritative model and the light-empowered model can be discerned from the different deliberative participatory experiences of Guangxi and Hubei. The deliberative elements introduced into the poverty alleviation program demonstrate that with a deeper and more consequential engagement of the citizens in welfare policy decision making, there can be an empowered form of political representation generated even in a non-electoral setting. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 583-615 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1870311 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1870311 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:583-615 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1945284_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yanhua Deng Author-X-Name-First: Yanhua Author-X-Name-Last: Deng Author-Name: Zhenjie Yang Author-X-Name-First: Zhenjie Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Xiao Ma Author-X-Name-First: Xiao Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Riding on the power of the masses? How different modes of mass mobilization shape local elite bargaining in China Abstract: When local bureaucrats in China disagree with their superiors, official channels for achieving a policy revision are limited and generally ineffective. However, if the stakes involved are high, they may turn to the power of the masses and draw on public pressure to enhance their negotiating position. In such informal inter-bureaucratic bargaining, local officials might intentionally facilitate popular protest and lead to a situation we call ‘mobilized instability.’ More commonly, they borrow power from ‘consent instability,’ that is, they discreetly leak insider information and instruct their police forces to be exceptionally tolerant. In this article, we use the redistricting case in Changxing county, Zhejiang province as well as other incidents to show how local officials can strategically exploit public pressure, in the mode of ‘consent instability,’ to extract policy concessions. We introduce the concept of ‘mobilized instability’ through an examination of jurisdictional restructuring conflict in Daye county, Hubei province. This analysis suggests that reckless intermediaries might over-mobilize and radicalize the masses, thereby undermining intentions and leading to serious consequences for the public officials. The article concludes that the power of the masses may serve as a credible bargaining chip during informal elite bargaining, but it can also be risky for those who handle it poorly. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 559-582 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1945284 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1945284 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:559-582 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1859793_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liao Fuchong Author-X-Name-First: Liao Author-X-Name-Last: Fuchong Title: Singular or plural? Administrative burden and doing business in China Abstract: Under what configuration of factors does administrative reform improve a business environment? What role does administrative burden play in government-business interactions? This article approaches these questions by examining the configuration of administrative reforms in the Chinese context and exploring administrative burden reduction through a new analytic framework. By analyzing provincial empirical data with the fsQCA method, we found that administrative reform could help improve a business environment by way of three pathways: the balance-developed path, the reform-oriented path, and the resource-driven path. Promoting a business environment is plural rather than singular. And, administrative burden reduction is the mechanism underlying this process. This configuration study of administrative reform and business environment construction in China not only adds to our understanding of administrative burden theory but also offers practitioners several pathways towards a higher quality business environment. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 616-632 Issue: 4 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1859793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1859793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:4:p:616-632 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1519323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Tobias ten Brink Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: ten Brink Title: Introduction: International comparative perspectives on Chinese social policy Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 371-375 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1519323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1519323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:371-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1522026_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanna Lee Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Sumei Wu Author-X-Name-First: Sumei Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Wing-tak Chui Author-X-Name-First: Wing-tak Author-X-Name-Last: Chui Title: Family financial support in income security for older parents in Hong Kong and South Korea Abstract: This study aims to explore the importance of family financial support from adult children to their older parents in Hong Kong and South Korea. These two societies share some similar social circumstances. For example, both societies are facing dynamically rapid ageing and possessing the traditional Confucian value of filial piety. Based on these social contexts, we firstly investigate the conceptual framework on family financial support by reviewing related theories. We secondly examine the World Bank pension multi-pillars of both societies to understand the role of family financial support to secure older people’s income. We thirdly address relevant social policy programmes to examine how both governments encourage family financial support. We fourthly employ empirical data to investigate how family financial support is important in both the societies. In addition, we compare the differences and similarities of their family financial support in light of contextual background, the World Bank multi-pillar framework, relevant social policies, and empirical data. Through this, this study is expected to enrich our understanding of the characteristics and role of family financial support of both societies. Moreover, it is hoped that this paper can provide some insights about the future prospect of welfare development for older people in Hong Kong. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 376-396 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1522026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1522026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:376-396 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1516418_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bingqin Li Author-X-Name-First: Bingqin Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Top-down place-based competition and award: local government incentives for non-GDP improvement in China Abstract: Top-down place-based competition and award (TDPBCA) has a growing presence in the West and a long existence in China. TDPBCA refers to the motivational strategy in which a higher authority sets a series of targets for lower-level governments to compete against each other or to pass the benchmarks set by the higher authority to become a winner. The participants (unit of assessment) are ‘places’ at the same level of jurisdiction (countries, cities, neighbourhoods, villages). This paper examines TDPBCA as a local motivation policy tool. It first reviews the literature on different local stakeholder motivation strategies and theorises the motivational impact of TDPBCA. The paper then examines the usage of TDPBCA in China and its influence on local stakeholders’ behaviour in terms of public participation, intersectoral collaboration, inter-regional learning and local public spending. The proposed paper examines TDPBC as a local motivation policy tool in China. The first section reviews the literature on different local stakeholder motivation strategies. The second section discusses theoretically the motivational impact of TDPBC. The paper then examines the usage of TDPBC in China and discusses its influence on local stakeholders’ behaviour in terms of public participation, inter-sectoral collaboration, inter-regional learning and local public spending. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 397-418 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1516418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1516418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:397-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1522733_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cor van Montfort Author-X-Name-First: Cor Author-X-Name-Last: van Montfort Author-Name: Li Sun Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Author-Name: Ying Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Ying Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Stability by change – the changing public-private mix in social welfare provision in China and the Netherlands Abstract: The topic of social welfare provision is currently drawing a lot of attention in both the Netherlands and China. Both governments are considering a new division between the responsibilities of the state, the individual citizen and the market. Both countries find themselves having to develop new socially and financially sustainable systems of social welfare provision. From the angle of the public-private mix, this article seeks to discuss the institutional evolution of systems of social welfare provision in the Netherlands and China, with a focus on health care, social housing and pension provision/elderly care.The public-private mix refers to four distinguishable ‘levels’ which can be identified in the public-private dimension: systems, organizations, partnerships and values. Despite the cultural differences, the long history of a mixed public – private tradition in the Netherlands could prove a source of inspiration in the Chinese context in several different ways. Firstly, the combination of an active government and an active private sector (civil society and private companies). Secondly, a welfare system that is highly regulated by the government. And thirdly a bottom-up approach, which favours negotiations and puts more emphasis on the processes, and in which projects take longer to plan and execute but that also creates support and legitimacy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 419-437 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1522733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1522733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:419-437 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1523296_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Baozhen Luo Author-X-Name-First: Baozhen Author-X-Name-Last: Luo Author-Name: Shaohua Zhan Author-X-Name-First: Shaohua Author-X-Name-Last: Zhan Title: Crossing the river by feeling for the stones: contesting models of marketization and the development of China’s long-term care services Abstract: Incorporating market mechanisms into public provision of long-term care (LTC) is part of a global trend featuring the liberalization of policies and politics during the past four decades. Drawing on a conceptual framework of marketization developed by Anttonen and Meagher, this article examines how the market mechanism has been introduced in the delivery of public LTC services in Germany, U.S., and China. It also examines the lessons that China has learned and can further learn from the German and American experiences. The article shows that the U.S. and German models, which differ considerably from each other, have had strong influences on LTC policy-making in China, but the emerging Chinese system appears to be substantively different from both. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 438-460 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1523296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1523296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:438-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1519307_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Epistemological globalization and the shaping of social policy in China Abstract: Most studies on social policy research in China have followed the logic of methodological and theoretical nationalism. However, increased communication across borders and the trend of internationalization in the domain of social policy have challenged uniquely nationalistic narratives. The emergence of studies on global social policy has contributed to constructing an international arena of social policy within which the interplay of various international and supranational actors has exerted considerable influence on agenda setting and the conceptual frameworks of national social policy. However, such a theoretical approach has been neglected in both Chinese and international academia. This essay connects to the research on global social policy and elaborates an independent communication field transcending the scope of state-centered social policy. Through analyzing three social policy fields—old age pension schemes, work accident insurance and social assistance scheme since the reform and open-door policy—the author constructs an interaction and communication arena strongly shaped by international semantics and narratives. Epistemological globalization assumes that national knowledge reserves and structures are increasingly shaped by the flow of ideas across nation-state borders. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 461-476 Issue: 4 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1519307 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1519307 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:4:p:461-476 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1554737_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bishnu Kumar Adhikary Author-X-Name-First: Bishnu Kumar Author-X-Name-Last: Adhikary Author-Name: Kenji Kutsuna Author-X-Name-First: Kenji Author-X-Name-Last: Kutsuna Author-Name: Jiakang Xu Author-X-Name-First: Jiakang Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Title: Corporate reputation, shareholders’ gains, and market discounts: evidence from the private equity placement in China Abstract: This paper extended the works of Wruck in 1989, and Hertzel and Smith in 1993 by incorporating the effects of corporate reputation on shareholders’ gains and market discounts in private equity placements (PEPs) taking data from the Chinese markets. Results demonstrate that corporate reputation significantly influences the shareholder’s gains in PEPs. Besides, factors such as market discounts, offering percentage, and connected transactions are positively related to the announcement effects whereas changes in ownership concentration negate the shareholders’ returns. By contrast, market discounts show a negative association with reputation status, indicating that reputation serves as a mitigating factor for resolving a firm’s undervaluation problem. These findings expect to help greatly to the managerial decision of PEP issuers in an emerging market. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 273-296 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1554737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1554737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:273-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1516388_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hummera Saleem Author-X-Name-First: Hummera Author-X-Name-Last: Saleem Author-Name: Wen Jiandong Author-X-Name-First: Wen Author-X-Name-Last: Jiandong Author-Name: Muhammad Bilal Khan Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Bilal Author-X-Name-Last: Khan Title: Determinants of corruption in China: a policy perspective Abstract: The main objective of this study is to investigate the major determinants for corruptions in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) using provincial panel data from 1998 to 2012 through the fixed effects and Instrumental Variables (IV) method. This paper uniquely considers the impacts of economic policy uncertainty on corruption in China. The study identified that the level of corruption has a positive relationship with the factors such as Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), uncertainty, economic development, public sector employees, size of provincial population and income inequality. And it was found that corruption has no correlation with salaries of public employees, women’s enrollment, anticorruption efforts, technological development, media and education. The study suggests that women’s enrollment is pretty unique, which depresses corruption in China. Further, it reveals the impact of technological development to reduce the rent-seeking activities. This study shows that there is a positive relationship between uncertainty and the level of corruption. The increase of uncertainty would lead to distract economic agents and economic drivers. The study suggests initiating serious economic and political reforms, since the level of corruption marginally decreases the economic growth of the country. Further, it emphasizes that the necessity of a regular framework to know how and why corruption saturates on the pillars of the state to succeed in anti-corruption policies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 297-321 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1516388 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1516388 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:297-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1638687_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bingdao Zheng Author-X-Name-First: Bingdao Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng Author-Name: Yanfeng Gu Author-X-Name-First: Yanfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Gu Author-Name: Hanbin Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Hanbin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Title: Land tenure arrangements and rural-to-urban migration: evidence from implementation of China’s rural land contracting law Abstract: This paper studies how land tenure arrangements will shape China’s rural land transfer market and labor allocation. Based on data from the Chinese Household Income Project (2002) and the China Family Panel Studies (2010 and 2012), we use fixed effect models and difference-in-differences method to investigate the effects of the implementation of Rural Land Contracting Law on villagers’ behavioral patterns in land transfer and rural-to-urban migration. Our empirical evidence shows that the introduction of Rural Land Contracting Law led peasants to actively rent out their contracted land, significantly increasing their agricultural income, and thus reducing the rural-to-urban migration. These findings demonstrate the ‘push and pull’ migration theory in the Chinese context, and have important policy implications for the ongoing reform of Chinese rural land property rights. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 322-344 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1638687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1638687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:322-344 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1652492_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iselin Stensdal Author-X-Name-First: Iselin Author-X-Name-Last: Stensdal Title: Towards a typology of pilots: the Shanghai emissions-trading scheme pilot Abstract: Piloting has become a prevalent feature of Chinese politics. However, there is a gap in classification of pilot types. This article offers an initial ordering of pilot types, categorized on the basis of institutional dynamics, changes, and staying power of institutions; and how pilots are handled by the local government. Government–business interactions are seen as an indicator of the government’s handling of the pilot. Three pilot types are proposed: perfunctory, policy-focused, and goal-oriented. One case is examined in depth: the Shanghai carbon-market emissions trading scheme pilot, from the time it was announced in November 2011, to the end of the first compliance cycle in June 2014. The Shanghai pilot was arguably a goal-oriented one: the local government put considerable effort into ensuring positive results, by allocating resources and interacting with the enrolled companies. The case-study draws on written sources such as government notices, regulations and news, as well as on semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 345-373 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1652492 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1652492 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:345-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1538197_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guan Huang Author-X-Name-First: Guan Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: Recent developments and future trends in China’s urban social security Abstract: China’s urban social security system has recently undergone extensive modification, though the future of this system’s structure and benefit level are still in question. This study aims to explore whether the development of China’s urban social security system is converging with or diverging from the western model by comparing its structure, both in principle and reality, and the modification mechanism of this system with the arguments presented by the generally accepted theories. By using the general model as a reference, the features of China’s urban current social security system, both structurally and statistically, have been explored. The quantitative modification mechanisms in different periods have also been compared to demonstrate that changes in the legitimacy of governance could directly influence the modification of China’s urban social security system, and thus is the decisive factor that changes the expression of the correlation between social security and economic development. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 374-389 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1538197 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1538197 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:374-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1443758_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wenqi Dang Author-X-Name-First: Wenqi Author-X-Name-Last: Dang Title: How culture shapes environmental public participation: case studies of China, the Netherlands, and Italy Abstract: To meet the public requirements for environmental democracy in the world, many international environmental public participation programmes have been developed by adopting the Local Agenda 21 in Rio 1992. At present, some programmes stress the importance of sharing practical lessons on environmental democracy by comparing participation policies in different countries. However, few academic studies analyze how a country’s culture affects environmental public participation. The goal of this paper is to describe how culture shapes environmental public participation by answering two questions: how do certain cultural factors categorize each country according to a nation being egalitarian, fatalist, individualist, and hierarchical in the Cultural Theory (CT) model, and how do the features of CT in each country explain their own environmental participation. This paper looks at three cultural factors—religious, democratic, and gender culture—and analyzes the environmental participation from three cases. This analysis indicates that these three cultural factors categorize both China and Italy under hierarchism in the CT model, while the Netherlands is categorized under individualism and egalitarianism. Italy also has features of fatalism. In addition, different features of CT in the three countries explain the diversity of forms of environmental participation in their contexts. This paper specifically contributes to the analysis of the potential cultural uncertainties in studied countries. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 390-412 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1443758 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1443758 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:3:p:390-412 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212522_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Francis Fukuyama Author-X-Name-First: Francis Author-X-Name-Last: Fukuyama Title: Reflections on Chinese governance Abstract: A modern political system consists of three sets of institutions: a modern, impersonal state, rule of law, and mechanisms for democratic accountability. China developed the modern state more than two millennia ago, but has yet to achieve a real rule of law limiting state power, and has no democratic accountability. Current Chinese government under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party replicates many features of dynastic rule, including top-down organization and upward, rather than downward, accountability. The system is unbalanced, with insufficient constraints on executive power, risking emergence of the ‘bad Emperor’ problem. The current anti-corruption campaign is unsustainable in the absence of a true rule of law. Transition to a more fully modern political system should sequence rule of law before democratic accountability, placing real constitutional limits on state power and only gradually opening up the system to greater political pluralism. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 379-391 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212522 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212522 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:379-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1213348_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kerry Brown Author-X-Name-First: Kerry Author-X-Name-Last: Brown Title: A response to Francis Fukuyama’s ‘reflections on Chinese governance’ Abstract: Governance in contemporary China presents external analysts with a number of challenges, the most significant of which is how to use general political science models to adequately conceptualize the Communist Party of China—a hybrid force that aims to cover all possible political territory in the People’s Republic and perform a function which is more extensive and yet more abstract than political parties in liberal democratic systems. Using the three areas of government modernization referred to by Francis Fukuyama—the state, rule of law and accountability—this essay looks at the ways in which the Communist Party has engaged in a progress of partial reform, tactically conceding space for other actors in some areas, while maintaining control of the core issue for control—political organization and the articulation of broad overarching goals for Chinese society, and how it has attempted to do something unique—create a modern, developed, market economy while still being governed by a Communist Party exercising a monopoly on power. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 392-404 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1213348 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1213348 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:392-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212541_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ming Xia Author-X-Name-First: Ming Author-X-Name-Last: Xia Title: Triangulating human political conditions and reorienting political development in China Abstract: A revisit to the debate on human nature leads us to multiple cultures upon which anarchy has been constructed and fictionalized. By highlighting the importance of social capital in human society, this paper argues that a Lockean conception of anarchy, instead of a Hobbesian one, offers a better option for achieving a liberal democracy in the cyclic and triadic model of anarchy-autocracy-democracy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 405-426 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:405-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1216760_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Hale Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Hale Title: International sources of political order in the People’s Republic of China: a lacuna in the Fukuyama framework Abstract: Fukuyama’s conception of political order centers on the state, the rule of law, and popular accountability, but does not adequately account for how international factors affect these elements of contemporary governance. Focusing on the history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the article notes how international sources of political order shaped each element of Fukuyama’s framework: conflict and war strengthened the PRC’s state apparatus, international institutions helped provide the rule of law that undergirded China’s economy growth, and international norms influenced how the Chinese state sought and received popular legitimacy. Each of these factors will continue to influence the political development of the PRC going forward. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 427-440 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1216760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1216760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:427-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212547_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Björn Alpermann Author-X-Name-First: Björn Author-X-Name-Last: Alpermann Title: Fukuyama and the Chinese middle class: modernization theory 1.5 Abstract: Francis Fukuyama’s recent works have rekindled interest in the larger questions of political development and have been discussed widely, including in China. This essay argues, first, that his theoretical perspective is squarely rooted in the classical modernization paradigm which is inherently teleological, but it develops its tenets and adds new insights to this body of theory. This qualifies Fukuyama’s theoretical perspective as ‘Modernization Theory 1.5’—a significant and important update on earlier versions, but not quite a fully relaunched research program. Second, the essay exemplifies what is problematic about this enhanced perspective by focusing on the role of the middle class for political development as envisaged by Fukuyama. His argument about the central role of the middle class for democratization is critiqued because the concept is underspecified in Fukuyama’s framework and, arguably, will remain an essentially contested concept and as such unhelpful in shedding light on political development. Moreover, his treatment of the Chinese middle class, in particular, is unconvincing because he fails to explicate how a collective ‘middle-class consciousness’ is to arise in a society undergoing rapid and multifaceted social re-stratification and mobilization. Social identity is the ‘missing link’ in his argumentation. Given these criticisms, the essay calls for a fundamental overhaul of the modernization debate in political science that should take into account more refined arguments advanced by sociologists studying the subject. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 441-456 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212547 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212547 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:441-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212549_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Hurst Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Hurst Title: Chinese law and governance: moving beyond responsive authoritarianism and the rule of law Abstract: In his essay, Francis Fukuyama offers a vision of Chinese governance that I contend is flawed in at least three important respects: the basic framework of his three pillars (and in particular, his conception of the rule of law), his characterization of the Chinese legal system, and his assumption of the strength (and even agility and responsiveness) of China’s bureaucratic state structure. After examining his arguments, I outline a different framework, drawn from my current research, which I call legal regimes and explain how it can be applied to understand the contemporary realities of China’s legal system. I also draw on my recent findings to challenge any assumptions of state strength or resilience, before examining the implications for current Chinese politics and possible future trajectories. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 457-469 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212549 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212549 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:457-469 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1213029_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martin K. Dimitrov Author-X-Name-First: Martin K. Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrov Title: Structural preconditions for the rise of the rule of law in China Abstract: This essay advocates for adopting a disaggregated approach when evaluating the progress that non-democratic countries like China are making towards establishing the rule of law. An understanding that the rule of law may develop in some areas, though not in others, allows us to identify the structural underpinnings of a limited rule-of-law system. The essay adopts a procedural definition of the rule of law as rules-based governance and argues that the regularized enforcement of laws and regulations is the key precondition for its emergence. This study defines regularized enforcement as consistent, transparent, and procedurally fair enforcement and identifies the conditions under which such enforcement may emerge. Although bureaucracies with clear mandates can provide this type of enforcement, it is more likely to develop when courts of law arise as the main enforcers of laws and regulations. The theoretical argument about the issue-specific rule of law in China is illustrated through three case studies. The first is of government accountability, where progress towards the rule of law has been minimal. The second is of intellectual property rights, where regularized enforcement has unexpectedly developed, especially for patents and copyrights. The third area is environmental protection, which is explicitly following the model of intellectual property rights. The essay concludes by arguing that an issue-specific approach allows us to grasp more fully the variation in good governance and progress towards establishing the rule of law that exists on the ground in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 470-487 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1213029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1213029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:470-487 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212781_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jiantao Ren Author-X-Name-First: Jiantao Author-X-Name-Last: Ren Title: Justification of modern political order: on Fukuyama’s theory of Chinese governance Abstract: Fukuyama tried to expound political development in contemporary China and justify its universal effectiveness, with the interpretation mode of modern political order supported by the state, rule of law and accountability. It is appropriate to describe, analyze and conclude that current political development in China is under the circumstance of a powerful state, weak rule of law, and soft accountability. However, because of the absence of the premise of interpretation, it is doubted that Fukuyama’s interpretation mode of modern political order, which is supported by three pillars, is universally effective. It remains unsolved that the standard of defining modern state is much vaguer rather than clearer, the course of China’s development is more unpredictable rather than more explicit, and that the construction of modern political order is more evasive rather than more certain. In general, Fukuyama’s interpretation of modern political order is restrained within its positive approach. Therefore, his task of implementing normative interpretation in order to justify modern political order remains unaccomplished. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 488-505 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:488-505 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212782_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yu Liu Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: The state with a surname: a dialogue with Fukuyama on the state in China Abstract: Fukuyama’s emphasis on state-building as an underestimated component of political development is very insightful and timely; but to argue that the dynastic China had an impersonal modern state is questionable. This article argues that the dynastic state in China in general was ultra-personal despite its seemingly ‘impersonal’ means. Likewise, political decay in China mostly took a route different from the ‘elite capture’ pattern, which is the core of Fukuyama’s understanding of political decay. Historically speaking, political decay in China happened more because of the overstretching of central power rather than the erosion of disintegrating elites. This article also examines contemporary China through this framework of political order and decay, suggesting that unique features of the contemporary society might help China escape from the historical cycle. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 506-519 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212782 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212782 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:506-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1212783_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guangbin Yang Author-X-Name-First: Guangbin Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: Watching Chinese politics under the mirror of the end of history—dialogue with Francis Fukuyama on his reflections on Chinese governance Abstract: Francis Fukuyama wrote Reflections of Chinese Governance technically for Chinese readers to understand his ideas in an accurate way. I think it is not true to say that the existence of rule of law depends on religion according to the development of knowledge and the history of law. Meanwhile, the hypothesis still needs to be discussed that the government accountability only appears through the vote, because the government by vote only leads to stability in some degree but ineffective governance in almost all of the underdeveloped countries. A government without governance cannot be called accountable; it even has no morality if we consider Huntington’s idea. It seems that Fukuyama’s Three Institutional Pillars should be seen as a revisited version of the End of History. For instance, it is not objectionable to conclude that China lacks the facts of rule of law since it has no judicial independence since these developing countries that have a constitutional court even perform worse than China. It is obvious that we should not simply judge the facts of rule of law by this single standard. Meanwhile, China is always criticized that it lacks accountability; however, the responsiveness of Chinese government to people’s appeals might be the most prompt and comprehensive in all of the developing countries. Fukuyama’s knowledge about China remains locked into the old impression of China as viewed by the western world. In fact, the accurate way of understanding China should be ‘finding history in China’. I agree that whatever regime it is, it needs to be reformed and changed with time. As for Chinese government, the reform does not happen in a single field of the rule of law as Fukuyama mentioned, but in the whole government to establish a limited government with capacity as a goal in the future. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 520-533 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1212783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:520-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1178460_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuelian Chen Author-X-Name-First: Xuelian Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: Local governance innovation in China: experimentation, diffusion, and defiance Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 534-538 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1178460 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1178460 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:534-538 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1197557_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liang Ma Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Varieties of governance in China: migration and institutional change in Chinese villages Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 539-542 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1197557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1197557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:3:p:539-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1636604_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna L. Ahlers Author-X-Name-First: Anna L. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlers Title: Political inclusion in contemporary China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 201-206 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1636604 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1636604 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:201-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1638686_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chloé Froissart Author-X-Name-First: Chloé Author-X-Name-Last: Froissart Title: From outsiders to insiders: the rise of China ENGOs as new experts in the law-making process and the building of a technocratic representation Abstract: Studying the pluralization of the law-making process in China, this article explains how environmental NGOs shifted from an outsider to an insider status following the amendment of the Environmental Protection Law. Whereas law-making in China has often been described as a search for compromise, this case-study rather highlights the link between the entry of new actors into the legislative process and their role in rebalancing power relations among administrative agencies with conflicting views and interests, thereby directly impacting the reframing of the law. This case-study thus highlights consultative authoritarianism's permeability with power politics and social mobilization. Differentiating the ‘entry moment’ from the process whereby ENGOs durably become insiders, this article also investigates the conditions for sustainable inclusion and the way the inclusion process broadens. Pointing out that authoritarian participation differentiates from democratic participation because ENGOs are primarily included as experts, this article complements the consultative authoritarianism framework by arguing that expertise allows for a technocratic form of representation of the broader public deprived of the right to political participation, hence enabling the law to better reflect the general interest. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 207-232 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1638686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1638686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:207-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1570629_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meng U. Ieong Author-X-Name-First: Meng U. Author-X-Name-Last: Ieong Title: ‘Know Who’ may be better than ‘Know How’: political connections and reactions in administrative disputes in China Abstract: How do disputants in China solve conflicts involving state actors in their daily life? We analyze the above questions using a representative national dataset and argue that it depends on either ‘Know Who’ or ‘Know How’. We further categorized three potential strategies in solving administrative dispute: Rule-bending, Rule-bound, and Rule-breaking. We find that while elites tend to approach the legal and bureaucratic system, encouraged by political connections, non-elites have to appeal outside the official justice system through petition. The findings herein suggest that China is pursuing regime stability through elite co-optation, which is in line with the theory of political survival. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 233-251 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1570629 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1570629 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:233-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1635402_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rebekka Åsnes Sagild Author-X-Name-First: Rebekka Åsnes Author-X-Name-Last: Sagild Title: Informational inclusion: reflection work in China’s local people’s political consultative conferences Abstract: The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conferences (CPPCCs) tend to be disregarded in scholarly work for lacking formal political powers. This overlooks the fact that the CPPCC has a range of embedded input functions for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including the task of reflecting popular opinions and social issues (反映社情民意fanying sheqing minyi). This article looks closer at this aspect of the CPPCC, drawing on interviews, internal documents, and publicly available information. The findings highlight the complex relationship between officially defined purpose, top-down control, and local practice of reflection-work. Despite the divergence between expressed and intended goals, in practice, this form of CPPCC-work can both be a way to engage CPPCC-members in solving issues of local governance, as well a channel for, broadly defined, political inclusion at the local level in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 252-266 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1635402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1635402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:252-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1642097_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Minglu Chen Author-X-Name-First: Minglu Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Dongya Huang Author-X-Name-First: Dongya Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: The institutional origin of private entrepreneurs’ policy influence in China: an analysis of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Abstract: In this research, we examine the institutions of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) and its political role from a historical perspective. By studying the ACFIC’s leadership, governing structure, and the activities of its affiliated business chambers and members, we argue that the ACFIC has evolved beyond its original mechanism as a component of the united front work and played an increasingly important role in the Party-state’s economic governance. Consequent to this development, nowadays the ACFIC has become a formal channel for private enterprises to articulate their collective interests and influence the national policy-making process. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 267-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1642097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1642097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:267-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1488925_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hai (David) Guo Author-X-Name-First: Hai (David) Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Title: Fiscal underpinnings for sustainable development in China—rebalancing in Guangdong Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 292-294 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1488925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1488925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:292-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1978722_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chao Wu Author-X-Name-First: Chao Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Yixin Tu Author-X-Name-First: Yixin Author-X-Name-Last: Tu Author-Name: Zexi Li Author-X-Name-First: Zexi Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Jianxing Yu Author-X-Name-First: Jianxing Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: An early assessment of the County Medical Community reform in China: a case study of Zhejiang province Abstract: Started in Anhui province, later introduced into Shanxi and Zhejiang province and now extensively piloted nationwide, the County Medical Community is China’s version of an integrated health-care delivery system which aims at strengthening the primary health-care system and take full advantage of health-care resources. In this early assessment, we analyzed the content of the County Medical Community Reform in detail in order to understand its operation mechanism, and conducted a case study of Zhejiang. We used the WHO Health Systems Performance Assessment Framework to analyze 11 pilot counties which implemented the County Medical Community Reform in 2017 in Zhejiang province together with a 11 counties that did not launch the County Medical Community Reform for comparison. We found that the implementation of the County Medical Community Reform had several noticeable results in the fields of stewardship, financing and fair financial contribution, creating resources, delivering services, and health-care. Additionally, during the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), we found County Medical Community exert positive influence on the disease diagnosis and treatment in the primary health-care system in Zhejiang province. Finally, we summarized the lessons learned and offered several recommendations regarding the future development of the County Medical Community. Furthermore, we sought to shed light on methods for optimizingthe primary health-care system in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 463-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1978722 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1978722 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:4:p:463-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1891721_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dao-lin Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Dao-lin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Author-Name: Wen-ji Duan Author-X-Name-First: Wen-ji Author-X-Name-Last: Duan Author-Name: Hui Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Hui Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Ting Du Author-X-Name-First: Ting Author-X-Name-Last: Du Title: Natural resource balance sheet compilation: a land resource asset accounting case Abstract: Investigating the principles and methods of natural resource asset accounting and balance sheet compilation is an important aspect of protecting natural resources and promoting ecological civilization. Accounting should be based on physical quantity accounting and supplemented by value quantity accounting. To avoid interest distortion caused by excessive paid use and valuation, the monopolized use of natural resources should be avoided. The contents of land resource asset accounting should include the area, quality, and price, and value quantity accounting should follow the principle of marketability. The balance sheet of natural resources should belong to the category of the national balance sheet. It is proposed that emphasis should be placed on promoting the use of modern information technology, as well as surveying and mapping techniques, to conduct comprehensive and accurate surveys of various types of natural resources. Scientific, solid, and accurate investigation and monitoring data are the foundation of natural resource asset accounting. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 515-536 Issue: 4 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1891721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1891721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:4:p:515-536 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1940690_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rong Tan Author-X-Name-First: Rong Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Author-Name: Rumei Hu Author-X-Name-First: Rumei Author-X-Name-Last: Hu Author-Name: Arild Vatn Author-X-Name-First: Arild Author-X-Name-Last: Vatn Title: What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China Abstract: In this paper we discuss if existing political and economic institutions can ensure sustainable futures. We do so by combining a global outlook with more specifically examining the situation in China. Present institutions foster growth, they are however weak at motivating actions that keep economies within an environmentally safe and socially just space. We especially note the challenges that strong focus on growth combined with ex post environmental regulations create for natural systems with tipping-points. In this situation, there is a need to change institutions to ensure strong emphasis on long-term sustainability as opposed to short term economic surplus. Regarding political decision-making, we discuss ways to break short-termism through strengthening public deliberation as well as formalizing political responsibility for the future. Regarding economic institutions, we emphasize the need to widen the goals of firms including responsibilities for environmental qualities. The latter may demand changes in ownership structures. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 486-514 Issue: 4 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1940690 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1940690 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:4:p:486-514 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1971420_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Changsheng Xiong Author-X-Name-First: Changsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong Author-Name: Yonglei Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Yonglei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Xue Liu Author-X-Name-First: Xue Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Qiaolin Luan Author-X-Name-First: Qiaolin Author-X-Name-Last: Luan Author-Name: Shichuan Wei Author-X-Name-First: Shichuan Author-X-Name-Last: Wei Title: Urban vacant land in rapidly urbanized areas: Status, micro-level drivers, and implications Abstract: The existence of vacant land is a worldwide phenomenon. However, few studies have used quantitative methods to focus on the micro-level drivers that cause land to remain vacant in small towns. In this study, we determined the ordered utilization status of vacant land in N County of Zhejiang Province, China, via visual inspection of high-resolution images captured in 2014, and identified the micro-level drivers of continued land vacancy using ordinal logistic regression. The results show that 57% of the newly supplied land, converted from agricultural land to urban land, released between 2006 and 2012 in N County was still unutilized or underutilized in 2014. Micro-level drivers, including elevation, distance to the industrial park, number of urban land units within the neighborhood, and the vacant years, positively affected the utilization rate of urban land. In contrast, the slope, distance to water, and distance to built-up areas had a negative effect. To address the continuing prevalence of vacant land, N County should prioritize the micro-level drivers of positive land use and strengthen post-land-supply supervision. This study provides a micro perspective for studying the drivers of vacant land prevalence and a decision-making framework in small towns of China to formulate land-supply schemes. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 554-577 Issue: 4 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1971420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1971420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:4:p:554-577 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1771809_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jian Lin Author-X-Name-First: Jian Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Chen Liu Author-X-Name-First: Chen Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Wen Liu Author-X-Name-First: Wen Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Title: Analysis of the logical relationship of elements of natural resource governance Abstract: The improvement of Natural Resource Governance systems plays a crucial role in the building of an ecological civilization in the new era. This study looked into the three major objects and elements of Natural Resource Governance, namely natural resources and the supervision of natural resources, ecology and ecological protection, and environment and environmental governance. It identified two sets of logical relationship lines: ‘carrier supervision and product supervision’ and ‘prevention beforehand and remedy afterward.’ The logical relations between the three elements are as follows: (1) the coordinated expression and legal basis are different for the three elements; (2) the supervision of natural resources and ecological protection are similar in terms of management essence, object scope, and behavioral orientation; (3) the supervision of natural resources and environmental governance have different focal points with regard to management connotation, object scope, behavioral orientation, and technical measures; and (4) in the specific regulatory process, constructive ecological protection is similar to pollution control. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 537-553 Issue: 4 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:4:p:537-553 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1382040_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yongdong Shen Author-X-Name-First: Yongdong Author-X-Name-Last: Shen Author-Name: Benjamin Steuer Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Author-X-Name-Last: Steuer Title: Conflict or cooperation: the patterns of interaction between state and non-state actors in China’s environmental governance Abstract: After nearly four decades of rapid economic development, China has positioned itself as the second largest economy in the world. On the downside, the country is now facing a veritable environmental challenge, which particularly manifests in a pervasive degradation of China’s environment and a deterioration of its citizens’ health. This special issue of the Journal of Chinese Governance investigates the patterns of governance, which have emerged in response to China’s environmental challenges. The analytical focus is set on the interactive dynamic between state and non-state actors in the light of deteriorating natural resources and environments. Based on a conference about China’s climate and environmental challenges, this edition has selected a set of articles that highlight the various governance modes resulting from state and non-state actor interactions. Herein, the central questions focus on how both sides interact with each other, and whether the resulting dynamic is one of conflict or cooperation. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to the broader discussion on how both state and non-state actors shape the modes of environmental governance in China. It concludes by discussing China’s experience in environmental governance, the advantages as well as shortcomings and the possibilities for replication. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 349-359 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1382040 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1382040 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:349-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1379646_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liang-Yu Chen Author-X-Name-First: Liang-Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: How do experts engage in China’s local climate governance? A case study of Guangdong Province Abstract: Taking Guangdong Province as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which experts engage in China’s local climate governance. The paper first explains that most prominent experts in Guangdong’s climate governance are those who work in semiofficial institutions or universities. The paper then illuminates the policy work of Guangdong experts by scrutinizing their engagement with three national policy pilot programmes promulgated by China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC): the low-carbon provincial pilot programme, the emissions inventory, and the emissions trading scheme. Lastly, in order to contextualize the knowledge–policy interface in the Chinese authoritarian context, the paper adopts the notion of the ‘politics of knowledge’ to explain how the political environment and local authorities’ considerations influence the conduct of experts in China’s local climate governance. While the previous literature mainly focuses on the role of experts in policy formulation, this study extends the understanding of the role of experts in climate governance by detailing the contribution of Guangdong experts to practically all of the stages of the policy process, including the capacity building, policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation phases of the policy cycle. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 360-384 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1379646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1379646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:360-384 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1379629_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eva Ignatuschtschenko Author-X-Name-First: Eva Author-X-Name-Last: Ignatuschtschenko Title: E-waste management in China: bridging the formal and informal sectors Abstract: The global production and demand of electronic appliances is exponentially growing, increasingly depleting natural resources. This is resulting in increasing amounts of electronic waste (e-waste), which is a challenge for resource management, as e-waste holds valuable resources that can be channeled back into the electronics production cycle. China, as one of the world’s main recipients of e-waste, is facing a twofold burden. Increasing amounts of e-waste are generated domestically, and there is a continuous flow of illegally imported e-waste. E-waste entering China from abroad is handled entirely by the informal recycling sector, which also covers most of nationally generated e-waste. Recycling practices in the informal sector are predominantly at primitive levels, not only posing serious harm to the environment and public health, but also resulting in inefficient resource recovery results. This paper analyzes the structure of the informal e-waste sector in China and challenges that impede the effective integration of the informal into the formal system. It also identifies good practices that may be applied to address these challenges and establish a sustainable e-waste management system in the country, which will allow China to recover valuable resources from e-waste and mitigate harm to the environment and human health. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 385-410 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1379629 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1379629 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:385-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1379166_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Benjamin Steuer Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Author-X-Name-Last: Steuer Title: Is China’s regulatory system on urban household waste collection effective? An evidence-based analysis on the evolution of formal rules and contravening informal practices Abstract: This article addresses the aspect of municipal solid waste management with a particular focus on household waste collection. Within this subject matter lies a peculiar governance challenge that manifests as a contesting, reciprocal dynamic between formal and informal collection systems: the two sides compete for economically valuable waste recyclables and discarded electronics, which prompt both domains to develop respective institutional structures aiming to dominate collection. For the purpose of answering the research question on formal rule effectiveness, the paper employs a theoretical framework based on the Old Institutional Economics. The thereof devised model is used to analyse (a) the historic shift form formal to informal waste collection dominance, (b) formal institutional responses in legislation, (c) the adaptive flexibility of the informal system and (d) the sequential interaction between the two systems. In conclusion, the analysis shows that the formal regulatory system may be interpreted as either ineffective or effective depending on the choice of perspective: formal institutions alone would not suffice to effectively collect waste recyclables and WEEE from households. Simultaneously, however, the formal system has provided a broad institutional leeway that enables informal collection to effectively solve this problem for the benefit of the urban Chinese WM system. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 411-436 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1379166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1379166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:411-436 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1382039_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kiu-Wai Chu Author-X-Name-First: Kiu-Wai Author-X-Name-Last: Chu Title: Screening environmental challenges in China: three modes of ecocinema Abstract: With growing concerns in climatic change, environmental hazards and worsening pollution problems at a global scale, there is a recent flourish of ecocinema studies (or eco-film criticism) concerning the interplay between cinema and environmental issues. This paper aims to shed some lights on how ecocinema may make an effective tool to facilitate the promotion of better environmental governance; as well as to cultivate in film viewers better ecological awareness. By categorizing ecocinema into three major modes: deep ecology film; environmentalist film; and perception-training eco-film, this paper aims to illustrate the diverse environmental imaginations ecocritical films could offer, so as to invite cross-disciplinary conversations between eco-film criticism and other academic fields, to gather forces in discovering possible ways to tackle and overcome the many environmental challenges we are facing collectively in the rapidly deteriorating world. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 437-459 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1382039 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1382039 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:437-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1354432_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lei Liu Author-X-Name-First: Lei Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Martin de Jong Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: de Jong Title: The institutional causes of environmental protests in China: a perspective from common pool resource management Abstract: This article approaches environmental protest in China as a failure in cooperative common pool resource management and engages with the institutional design principles developed by Elinor Ostrom to identify underlying institutional causes. The results show that, at the constitutional choice level, the fundamental ideology, and political institutions of China do not support a nested environmental governance system that involves non-governmental powers. At the collective-choice level, the monitoring and graduated sanctions systems suffer from unaccountable local officials, opaque information, lax law enforcement, and the rising but still restricted role of non-governmental organizations and media. At the operational level, low-quality and even fraudulent environmental impact assessments do not clearly define boundaries for resources and users, which prevents the evolution of congruent rules and neglects the stakes the public may have in a project. The options to reform the existing institutions are then considered in light of China’s constitutional and institutional tradition. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 460-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1354432 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1354432 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:460-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1384094_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chao Yang Author-X-Name-First: Chao Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Jun Su Author-X-Name-First: Jun Author-X-Name-Last: Su Title: Quantitative Research on Policy Literature Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 478-480 Issue: 4 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1384094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1384094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:478-480 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1709325_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yuan (Daniel) Cheng Author-X-Name-First: Yuan (Daniel) Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng Title: Bridging the great divide: toward a comparative understanding of coproduction Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1709325 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1709325 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:1-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1666542_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jeffrey L. Brudney Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey L. Author-X-Name-Last: Brudney Title: Rethinking coproduction: amplifying involvement and effectiveness Abstract: This article reviews the origin and development of research on coproduction and proposes a new Coproduction Amplification Model to guide research and practice. The article shows that coproduction research began and flowered in the USA in the 1980s but lagged in the 1990s. The study suggests and explores reasons for the lapse, including the introduction of New Public Management; emerging research on volunteer involvement in government service delivery; the rise of scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinary research on citizen involvement; and the growth of academic programs in nonprofit studies. Reinvigorated by scholarship from across the globe, research on coproduction has revived in the 2000s, much of it concerned with appropriate conceptualization. This article elaborates a new model intended to move research from preoccupation with definition toward increasing citizen involvement and effectiveness in coproduction. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 8-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1666542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1666542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:8-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1673998_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beth Gazley Author-X-Name-First: Beth Author-X-Name-Last: Gazley Author-Name: Yuan (Daniel) Cheng Author-X-Name-First: Yuan (Daniel) Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng Title: Integrating coproduction theory into voluntary sector theories: approaches and implications for Chinese governance Abstract: This article argues for a fuller and more integrated application of coproduction theory into explanations for social and voluntary sector activity around the globe. Coproduction also has potential value for understanding some aspects of an emerging and somewhat turbulent Chinese nonprofit sector. This article uses a literature review of voluntary sector theories to first offer three reasons for more emphasis on coproduction research to explain social sector behavior: its consumer- and systems-oriented perspective, its emphasis on citizen initiative, and its temporal flexibility. We then demonstrate the value of the coproduction theory for Chinese governance by employing a systematic literature review of Chinese coproduction and related collaboration scholarship. The articles produced, although quite limited in number, offer promising examples of all three of these ways in which the concept of coproduction has been used to date in Chinese contexts. We conclude with some suggestions for future China-oriented research to better integrate coproduction theory into voluntary sector theories. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 28-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1673998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1673998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:28-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1689035_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrew G. H. Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Andrew G. H. Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Contextualising co-production and co-governance in the Scottish National Health Service Abstract: Scotland is a small nation with strong networks and a distinct political consensus over health policy direction. Since UK political devolution in 1999, Scotland has rejected marketization/competition in favour of mutual approaches to health and social care, based on collaboration between government, citizens and health care practitioners, and inter-organisationally within and beyond the NHS. Co-production recognises citizens as owners and partners, underpinned by statutory patient rights. Examples include managed clinical networks; mental health services; a national partnership programme with citizens by Government, statutory bodies and civil society organisations (CSOs) at individual, local and national levels; and a Scottish Co-Production Network. Co-governance engages CSOs in offering advice, support and material contributions to health and social care. Growing interest in deliberative methods within mini-publics to advise government, has led to a citizens’ jury to discuss and make recommendations for the ideal form and processes for shared decision-making in health care. Complexity theory is invoked to combine various theoretical frameworks to provide a set of complementary insights and possible explanations for current emergent forms. While health care quality has improved, further research is required to evaluate co-production/co-governance against other systems. Nonetheless, both citizens and Government support it to promote fairness and social justice. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 48-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1689035 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1689035 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:48-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1705052_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liang Ma Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Author-Name: Xia Wu Author-X-Name-First: Xia Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Citizen engagement and co-production of e-government services in China Abstract: With the increasing complexities of public administration and the challenges of financial cutback, government has been increasingly coproducing public services with citizens and other stakeholders. In this study, we use the case of ‘I find mistakes for government websites’ initiated by the central government in China in 2015 to explore what drives online co-production. Citizens are mobilized to identify and report ‘bugs’ of government websites, which vary substantially across regions and administrative levels. We find that citizens pay more attention to government websites at higher administrative levels, which receive more citizen reports. Further analyses reveal that co-production is driven by different groups of variables at different government levels, which may be attributable to varying functions and user groups. For government websites at city level, co-production is negatively related to e-government performance and economic affluence but positively related to population size and Internet access. For provincial government websites, only population size matters. These findings help to better understand the underpinning mechanisms of online co-production, and generate helpful implications for e-government practitioners. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 68-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1705052 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1705052 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:68-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1710048_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shihong Weng Author-X-Name-First: Shihong Author-X-Name-Last: Weng Author-Name: Yunxiang Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Yunxiang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Coproduction of community public service: evidence from china’s community foundations Abstract: With the resurgence of interest in community foundation (CF), questions arise around how do CFs produce and deliver community public services. Although the CF has a long history, the rapid development of CFs around world became the significant institutional change in local public affairs, the functions of CFs have received little attention in the literature. The existing literature about CFs usually be dichotomy: model or movement. This article presents a new theoretical framework, according to whether there are individual or collective coproduction and they participate top-down or bottom-up, to explain the function of China’s CFs. Coproduction advocates intensive engagement and collaboration of citizens in community public service delivery. And coproduction seems to play an important role in both instrumental and symbolic terms in the production and delivery of public goods or services by joining-up government, for-profit and non-profit organizations. The findings show how the CFs provide public services in China through the lens of coproduction that involves sharing information, resources, activities, risks and decision-making in a bid to achieve an agreed public outcome. In the new governance, many governments are moving away from agency-centric bureaucracy and towards citizen-centric mission to delivering public services. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 90-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1710048 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1710048 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:90-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1695711_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Huafang Li Author-X-Name-First: Huafang Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Communication for coproduction: a systematic review and research agenda Abstract: Government and nonprofit organizations communicate with the public to reduce the degree of information asymmetry that could impede the two parties from working together to achieve higher levels of performance and accountability and coproduce better policy outcomes and public goods. Different organizational communication strategies’ influences, including choices of information channels, types, frequency, and contents, vary across individuals. This study reviews the relevant literature, discusses various communication strategies and their influences on citizens and implications for public policies and programs, develops a conceptual framework, and proposes a research agenda for future studies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 110-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1695711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1695711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:110-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138690_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tony Saich Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Saich Title: How China’s citizens view the quality of governance under Xi Jinping Abstract: Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to improve the quality of governance and to crack down on corruption. The article uses a unique set of survey data from 2003 to 2014 to evaluate how Chinese citizens perceive the performance of their local officials. The findings confirm the view that Chinese citizens ‘disaggregate’ the state with satisfaction dropping as government gets closer to the people. Officials are seen to have become more competent and friendly in their dealings with citizens. Satisfaction tends to be higher with the provision of those public goods that the old planning system was good at delivering and are more concerned about the household-based challenges that the reforms have brought. Environmental worries have risen and citizens feel that progress has been made in the fight against corruption but this may have created a more critical view of local officials. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138690 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138690 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138699_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jianxing Yu Author-X-Name-First: Jianxing Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Author-Name: Shizong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Shizong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: New Agenda for the Study of Chinese Governance Abstract: The rise of governance theory produces a discernible impact on political-administrative research and public administration practices in China. The introduction of such concepts as the state governance system and social governance indicates that governance has even become an official discourse in China. Since the inception of governance theory in China, a series of disputes have emerged in terms of the logical relationship between governance and good governance and the applicability of governance theory in China. Although these disputes exert a marginal effect on research on Chinese governance, a core issue regarding applicability reappears—tension between state building and governance—amid the present-day conflict between state governance and social governance, as well as, the current contention between official discourse and academic discourse. The future agenda of research on Chinese governance needs to revolve around this core, involving state governance, social governance, and the interaction between the two. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 21-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:21-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138693_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yu Keping Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Keping Title: Learning, training, and governing: the CCP’s cadre education since the reform Abstract: This article examines the current institutions, structure, function, and features of the CCP’s cadre education and training system, with particular analysis of its significance and implication to improve the quality of CCP’s cadres at different levels and to increase the CCP’s capacity to govern the country. This article argues that as the sole ruling party controlling all core political power in China, the CCP’s quality and capacity directly determine whether China’s state governance is strong or weak, and good or bad. Accordingly, the CCP’s cadre education and training system is one part of the national governance system. On the one hand, in order to modernize the national governance system, it is necessary to modernize the CCP’s cadre education and training system. On the other hand, the future reforms and innovations in the CCP’s cadre education and training system will greatly promote the modernization of both the CCP itself and the state governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 41-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:41-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138700_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna L. Ahlers Author-X-Name-First: Anna L. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlers Author-Name: Thomas Heberer Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Heberer Author-Name: Gunter Schubert Author-X-Name-First: Gunter Author-X-Name-Last: Schubert Title: Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation Abstract: This article describes China’s reorganization of its local governance system since the early 2000s. Policy shifts, administrative restructuring and intensified public inclusion have considerably modified local governance, especially in the country’s vast rural areas and, we argue, have laid the groundwork for continuous and more effective policy implementation amidst increasing complexity and challenges. Based on years of fieldwork on new rural development policies, urbanization programs and private sector development in China, we start by briefly describing the most important developments in local governance, especially at the county level and below. We then concentrate on two aspects with particular relevance: first, we trace the reconfigured characteristics of internal governmental procedures of policy adjustment and implementation. Second, we find new types of external stakeholder inclusion, which we analyze based on the example of local government interactions with private entrepreneurs in promoting development blueprints and strengthening public goods provision. In conclusion, we contend that current Chinese local governance is a dynamic and delicate combination of expanding local administrative autonomy, external actor inclusion and the Party State’s re-emergent aim of pervasive steering. At a minimum, the resulting governance arrangements appear able to generally strengthen the political regime’s implementation capacities. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 55-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138700 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138700 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:55-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138702_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuelian Chen Author-X-Name-First: Xuelian Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Christian Göbel Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Göbel Title: Regulations against revolution: mapping policy innovations in China Abstract: Since 2004, the central government has incentivized local officials to solve regional problems proactively and to prevent their emergence. The present contribution investigates the impact of these incentives. It analyzes the geographic distribution of policy innovations in China, the types of measures local government officials devise to solve or to prevent local problems, and the factors to render likely the successful implementation of certain measures at specific locations. Based on the literature on policy implementation in China’s local states, we formulate hypotheses and test them by means of geographically visualized data and multivariate linear regressions. Our data source is composed of roughly 1030 descriptions of policy innovations implemented by local governments. These documents have been submitted to compete for a renowned prize rewarding local policy innovation, and the existence of the measures described therein have been verified by the organizers of the competition. Overall, the results of our investigation suggest that the central government’s alteration of local incentive structures exert a broad effect, thus providing the prerequisites for the comprehensive influence of local innovations on the entire system. Whether they actually increase the legitimacy of the regime must, however, be determined in a follow-up study. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 78-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:78-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138696_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zengke He Author-X-Name-First: Zengke Author-X-Name-Last: He Title: From social management to social governance: discourse change and policy adjustment Abstract: Since 1999, there has been continuous discussion and exploration among academic circles in China on the concepts of governance, good governance, and social governance advocating cooperative management of public affairs by multiple entities, such as state and society, government and citizen. Since 2004, the ruling party and government has gradually accepted concepts in social governance, provided policy space and opportunity for social cooperation and public participation in social management mechanism, and accepted the concept of ‘social governance’ in the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (hereafter called CPC) Central Committee (hereafter called Party Congress) in 2013. In the same time frame in accepting the concept of social governance, the CPC has been continuously adjusting its policy in social management. Since the Fourth Plenary session of the 16th Party Congress, government policies on social construction and management have been increasingly broadened and enriched; development of social organizations, community construction, professional development for social workers and volunteer service system have gained more policy encouragement and resources support. All of these reveal that the Chinese Communist Party has strong learning capability and good adaptability, being good at adapting its ideology and policy according to situational changes. On the other hand, the CPC has a strong level of autonomy and conservatism; while absorbing the external successful experiences and lessons, it insists on its leadership position and the leading role of government as well as its bottom line in reformation. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 99-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:99-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138698_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jing Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Jing Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Government finances and public interests: perspectives on state-building Abstract: This article discusses the financial behavior of local governments and its political consequences in China. According to surveys conducted from 2006 to 2011, the author points out a trend: local governments have increasing awareness over the control of their ‘financial assets,’ they have increasing motives to pursue rewards, play active roles as investors expanding to broader economic realms, and market principles have been fully legitimized among official institutions and organizations within the system. With the strengthening awareness in the ownership and handling of political assets, the financial capacity of local governments—the ability to allocate resources and the ability to return incentives—have increased, but under the influence of historical perceptions and structure of institutional and regional finances, the local government’s chain of benefits mainly extends along the official system, or its related economic departments. For the society, this encourages and also exacerbates the imbalance of opportunities to receive benefits, and the potential political consequences are damaging to the reputation of the government representing ‘public interests’. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 119-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138698 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138698 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:119-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138697_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Li Qiang Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Qiang Author-Name: Wang Tuohan Author-X-Name-First: Wang Author-X-Name-Last: Tuohan Title: Social governance and the Qinghe Experiment Abstract: The Qinghe Experiment is an experiment of social science conducted by sociologists in the Qinghe area, Beijing, which combines academic research with social governance and social development. The Qinghe Experiment was first launched by the old-generation sociologists Yang Kaidao, Xu Shilian, et al. in 1928, which was mainly about rural construction, and discontinued by Japanese troops’ occupation of Peking. In 2014, the Qinghe Experiment was relaunched at the Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University. Today’s Qinghe is not as it was in the past. It has become an urban community and a rural-urban fringe zone. Now Qinghe consists of 28 neighborhood communities, including urban village communities. With extremely complicated types of communities, Qinghe can be regarded as an epitome of the evolution of Chinese urban and rural communities. According to the theoretical framework of the new Qinghe Experiment, presently the prominent problems in respect of governments, markets, and society are an insufficient growth of society and insufficient participation of community residents. Therefore, one important part of the experiment is to motivate the social vitality. Now the experiment consists of two parts, ‘social reorganization’ and ‘community improvement.’ Experiments of social reorganization and community improvement were conducted at three communities in Qinghe. Social Reorganization is to strengthen the original community residents’ committees’ social representativeness, social self-governing capacity, social vitality, and capacity of serving the residents through adding ‘discussion members’ to residents committees. Community Improvement is for using various forms of public topics and community activities to fully exert the role of residents’ committees, including the discussion members, motivate the residents to participate in the communities’ public decision making, give play to the residents’ initiative, improve the community life from many aspects, raise the level of living environment in the communities, and improve the level of community governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 139-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:139-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138703_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yong Xu Author-X-Name-First: Yong Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Title: Reinstating autonomy: an exploration into the effective forms for realizing villager autonomy Abstract: The author believes that the intrinsic value of autonomy and villager autonomy dictates that villager autonomy will continuously open up a road for itself in practice. Also villager autonomy needs to realize its value in effective forms. Since the 1980s, there have been three stages in the forms of villager autonomy: the first being self-generated and voluntary villager autonomy based on natural villages with its main contribution of “three selfs” (self-management, self-education and self-service); the second being standard and regulated villager autonomy on the basis of administrative villages with its main contribution of “four democratics” (democratic election, democratic decision making, democratic management and democratic supervision); and the third being internally generated and externally coordinated villager autonomy below administrative villages with its main contribution of efforts to explore different effective forms of autonomy. With the socioeconomic development, it is necessary to explore in a continuous manner, the effective forms for realizing villager autonomy and build up a multilayer, multi-type and multiform system of villager autonomy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 157-173 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138703 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138703 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:157-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138705_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liang Tang Author-X-Name-First: Liang Author-X-Name-Last: Tang Title: The China model and its efficacy in a comparative context Abstract: This article takes economic modernization and political democratization as the end goals of national modernization, and it regards the configuration of political and economic institutions as the institutional framework for achieving those goals. The first section puts forward a brief analysis of the characteristics of the three main models, namely, the Western model, the socialist model and the authoritarian developmentalism, in order to lay a useful analytical foundation for subsequent discussion of the China model. The second section defines the China model as a kind of authoritarian developmentalism. It proceeds to analyze its characteristics or effectiveness by comparing with other authoritarian developmentalism. The third section looks at the challenges and prospects of the China model from the developmental perspective. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 174-187 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138705 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138705 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:174-187 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138706_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiang Gao Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Title: Governance and adaption of the Chinese Communist Party: a comparative perspective Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 188-190 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:188-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1138707_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yujing Tan Author-X-Name-First: Yujing Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Author-Name: Kai Fang Author-X-Name-First: Kai Author-X-Name-Last: Fang Title: Environmental Governance in China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 191-194 Issue: 1 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1138707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1138707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:191-194 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1587859_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gerry Stoker Author-X-Name-First: Gerry Author-X-Name-Last: Stoker Title: Embracing complexity: a framework for exploring governance resources Abstract: The premise of this article is that when comparing governance systems, a greater focus on the complexity of the environment facing nation states would provide a step forward. National regimes should not be compared in a vacuum but rather with respect to the governance challenges they are likely to face in an unpredictable world. It is necessary to recognize the adaptive complexity of the systems generating those challenges and yet how they also providing the ingredients for emergent solutions. It is argued that exploring interactive capacity rather than formal structures will provide a stronger indication of whether governance challenges are likely to be met. It is concluded that different types of national regimes could, in principle, deliver effective interactive governance capacity in different ways, but each can generate tipping points that could lead to failure. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 91-107 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1587859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1587859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:91-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1596057_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: B. Guy Peters Author-X-Name-First: B. Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Title: Governing in the shadows Abstract: Governance theory has been focused on the contrast between governance through the State and governance through alternative mechanisms such as networks. This paper focuses on four alternative sources of governance and the potential positive and negative contributions to each. It also addresses the logic of movement among different forms of governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 108-122 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1596057 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1596057 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:108-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1595912_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Liz Richardson Author-X-Name-First: Liz Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson Author-Name: Catherine Durose Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Durose Author-Name: Beth Perry Author-X-Name-First: Beth Author-X-Name-Last: Perry Title: Three tyrannies of participatory governance Abstract: Despite the potential promise of more participatory urban governance, some debates do not sufficiently reflect difficult realities. This paper aims to make good on this by maintaining reflexivity about tensions. Drawing on traditions of pragmatism, the paper identifies tyrannies besetting understandings of participatory governance. Tyrannies are ways of thinking that developed in response to an identified issue, but which fail to live up to their initial promise. Despite this, those particular ways of thinking continue to hold sway. The paper sets three key tyrannies: the quest for authenticity in non-elected representation; assumptions about leadership models; and ‘bottom-up’ versus ‘top-down’ debates. First, despite widespread acknowledgement of the value of lived experience in participatory governance, in the quest for authenticity, it is simultaneously reified yet denied. Second, we question assumed symbiotic alignments between participatory governance and ideas of distributed leadership. Third, we present a critique of the fetishisation of ‘bottom-up’ approaches in participatory governance. It concludes with the role of reflexivity in re-negotiating the politics of participatory governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 123-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1595912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1595912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:123-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1576264_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter John Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: John Title: The international appeal of behavioural public policy: is nudge an Anglo-American phenomenon? Abstract: Since the publication of Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein (2008) behavioural public policies and nudge units have been widely adopted right across the world, which has resulted in many improvements to the delivery of public policies, such as better tax collection, increased access of young people to education opportunities, and more charitable giving. This paper asks what explains the adoption of nudge units and related initiatives. In particular, are Anglo–American or West European countries the focus for adoption? Are these interventions more likely to appear under left, right, or centre-dominated governments? Ascertaining the origins of nudge can adjudicate the extent to which nudge is partial project, based on the dominance of liberal economies and the preferred programme for centre governments and/or right political ideologies, or whether it has more universal appeal. Using data from OECD and OECD-partner countries, event history models reveal Anglo–American countries to be the drivers, with nudge not favoured by left-controlled governments. Nonetheless, with the interest and level of policy transfer not abating, in future years nudge is likely to appear in a wide variety of contexts, including China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 144-162 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1576264 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1576264 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:144-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1575502_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Claire A. Dunlop Author-X-Name-First: Claire A. Author-X-Name-Last: Dunlop Author-Name: Jonathan C. Kamkhaji Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan C. Author-X-Name-Last: Kamkhaji Author-Name: Claudio M. Radaelli Author-X-Name-First: Claudio M. Author-X-Name-Last: Radaelli Title: A sleeping giant awakes? The rise of the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) in policy research Abstract: The Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) is an important and relatively recent innovation in policy theory and analysis. It is conceptualized to empirically operationalize the insights of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. In the last decade, political scientists have offered a number of applications of the IGT, mainly focused on disclosing and scrutinizing in-depth the textual configurations of policy documents. These efforts, involving micro-level analyses of syntax as well as more general classifications of institutional statements according to rule types, have underpinned empirical projects mainly in the area of environmental and common-pool resources. Applications of IGT are still in their infancy, yet the growing momentum is sufficient for us to review what has been learned so far. We take stock of this recent, fast-growing literature, analyzing a corpus of 26 empirical articles employing IGTs published between 2008 and 2017. We examine them in terms of their empirical domain, hypotheses, and methods of selection and analysis of institutional statements. We find that the existing empirical applications do not add much to explanation, unless they are supported by research questions and hypotheses grounded in theory. We offer three conclusions. First, to exploit the IGT researchers need to go beyond the descriptive, computational approach that has dominated the field until now. Second, IGT studies grounded in explicit hypotheses have more explanatory leverage, and therefore, should be encouraged when adopting the tool outside the Western world. Third, by focusing on rules, researchers can capture findings that are more explanatory and less microscopic. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 163-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1575502 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1575502 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:163-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1596544_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrick Dunleavy Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Dunleavy Author-Name: Mark Evans Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Evans Title: Australian administrative elites and the challenges of digital-era change Abstract: Within long-lived public sector bureaucracies, the organizational cultures developed by administrative elites have strong filtering and focusing effects on the kinds of technological changes adopted, especially in the modern era. Normally seen as very slow-moving and hard to alter, senior officials’ attitudes towards digital changes have recently begun to alter in more substantial ways in Australia. We review first a considerable reappraisal of the priority given to digital changes by top public service managers. This cultural shift has followed on from tech-lead disruptive societal changes affecting most areas of government now, and from the rise of global-scaled ICT corporations to become key management exemplars for officials. Second, we look at the chequered history of political leaders’ interventions to speed up digital change, showing that in the period 2015–19 Australia witnessed both the initial power and later limits of such involvement. Finally, we consider Australia’s recent experience with big data/artificial intelligence (BDAI), a key area of technological change for public service officials, but one that in a liberal democracy can also easily spark public resistance to their plans. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 181-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1596544 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1596544 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:2:p:181-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1888472_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bing Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Bing Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Fei Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Fei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Dan Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Jingxin Qiao Author-X-Name-First: Jingxin Author-X-Name-Last: Qiao Author-Name: Bing Xue Author-X-Name-First: Bing Author-X-Name-Last: Xue Title: Improvement of environmental performance and optimization of industrial structure of the Yangtze River economic belt in China: going forward together or restraining each other? Abstract: Based on the panel data of eleven provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China from 2008 to 2018, both the optimization index of the industrial structure and environmental performance indexes are calculated. Then, the impact of industrial structure optimization on the improvement of ecological environmental performance was investigated by applying the static panel model and threshold model. The results show that the optimization of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has a significant role in promoting the improvement of environmental performance in general. Still, the rationalization of the industrial structure has a single threshold effect. The upgrading of regional industrial structure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the rationalization of regional industrial structure in the Yangtze River's upper reaches are more conducive to improving ecological environment performance. Therefore, in the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the downstream region should strengthen scientific and technological innovation, strive to break through the core and critical technologies, and mainly build clean and efficient green service industries. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 435-455 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1888472 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1888472 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:435-455 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1796163_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Joel S. Migdal Author-X-Name-First: Joel S. Author-X-Name-Last: Migdal Title: The question of authority Abstract: Authority is at the core of the human condition. In every realm of existence—social life, politics, economics—some people exercise authority over others. The exercising of authority comes in many different guises and at many different levels of human society. The epitome in the breadth and depth of exercising authority is the modern state. In some ways, it attempts to usurp the authority of all other social organizations. The topic of states exercising authority seems, at first glance, to be self-evident. After all, states are the most powerful organizations on earth. They are replete with agencies and bureaus, departments and ministries, not to speak of armies and police forces. Yet, most states run into difficulties in exercising power—implementing policies and succeeding in changing people’s behavior. This article analyzes the reasons states experience such difficulties. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 333-350 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:333-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1721230_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Minsi Liu Author-X-Name-First: Minsi Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Kevin Lo Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Lo Title: Pathways to international cooperation on climate governance in China: a comparative analysis Abstract: International cooperation has played a major role in climate governance. With a particular focus on China, this study develops a comparative framework to understand three pathways to international cooperation on climate change: multilateralism, bilateralism and transnationalism. Drawing on cooperation theory, we compare the three pathways in terms of their leaders, organisations, bargaining process, agreement, and enforcement efforts, and analyse their comparative strengths and limitations. We suggest that, given the ever-increasing difficulties and uncertainty experienced in climate multilateralism, the government should pay more attention to developing climate bilateralism and transnationalism in order to leverage the benefits of international cooperation on climate governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 417-434 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1721230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1721230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:417-434 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1871207_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chunyu Shi Author-X-Name-First: Chunyu Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Author-Name: Emilie Frenkiel Author-X-Name-First: Emilie Author-X-Name-Last: Frenkiel Title: Policy entrepreneurship under hierarchy: how state actors change policies in China Abstract: How do actors develop entrepreneurial activities to bring about policy change? To what extent do the contexts in which they are embedded shape their behaviors? Relying on three comparative case studies, we use the structure-, institution- and agent-based analytical framework to investigate the complex and dynamic interactions between contexts and actors in the process of policy change initiated by state actors in authoritarian China. We propose a conceptual framework, ‘policy entrepreneurship under hierarchy’, which highlights the influence of power domination during the policy change process. It allows us to offer a renewed definition of policy entrepreneur and to identify a pattern of successful policy entrepreneurship in contrast to the ‘four central elements’ suggested by Mintrom and Nomann. We conclude that hierarchical policy entrepreneurship in China is displayed through two kinds of relationship: the proposal-approval between policy entrepreneurs and their superiors; and the instruction-execution between policy entrepreneurs and their subordinates. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 351-374 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1871207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1871207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:351-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1760069_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jieling Liu Author-X-Name-First: Jieling Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Franz W. Gatzweiler Author-X-Name-First: Franz W. Author-X-Name-Last: Gatzweiler Title: The institutional challenge to co-deliver migrant integration and urban greening—evidence from Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou, China Abstract: We aim to investigate the governance challenges of many Chinese urban governments to co-deliver migrant integration and urban green space provision. In specific, we examine the existing institutional arrangements applied in the Haizhu Wetland Park Project in Guangzhou and the consequential marginality. Why is it challenging for many urban governments to take social marginality into account in the conservation of urban green spaces? We approach this research question with the concepts of marginality, complex social-ecological systems, and institutional fit. We construct a conceptual framework to identify and explain the types of marginality emerged and to analyze the institutional fit in the case study. Our analysis reveals a segregative effect in the current institutional arrangements. On the one hand, they are cost-efficient in ecological restoration and urban green space conservation; on the other, not effective in addressing migrant integration and wellbeing. Current institutional arrangements segregate these two interconnected issues, leading to the marginalization of urban migrants. The current institutional segregativity reveals the degree of challenge to balance the pursuits between social equity and ecological benefits. For more collaborative and inclusive urban governance, future research is needed to understand whether the lacking integration of urban migrants is an institutional blind spot. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 396-416 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1760069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1760069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:396-416 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1699494_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mengyun Cheng Author-X-Name-First: Mengyun Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng Author-Name: Fengying Qin Author-X-Name-First: Fengying Author-X-Name-Last: Qin Title: Innovation in construction of local eco-civilized cities in China: cooperative construction mechanism with multi-element objects Abstract: The construction of eco-city is in full swing at home and abroad, and scholars all over the world have done a lot of research on it. Building an eco-civilized city is to realize the harmonious interaction between human and nature, and to constitute a new settlement system with an ecological, harmonious, and virtuous cycle. The construction of this new settlement system requires the participation of all subjects, emphasizing the co-construction of multi-subjects. However, domestic and foreign scholars have paid little attention on how to coordinate multi-subjects to build eco-civilized cities. Therefore, taking the construction of ecological civilization in the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone in China as an example, this paper establishes a ‘cooperative construction mechanism with multi-element objects’ based on the local government, enterprise, and the public. With this mechanism, we explore how to establish a cooperative construction mechanism among multi-subjects and how to implement this mechanism in the construction of eco-civilized cities, which is the core of this paper. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 375-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1699494 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1699494 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:375-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1890418_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Qing Miao Author-X-Name-First: Qing Author-X-Name-Last: Miao Author-Name: Hui Yin Author-X-Name-First: Hui Author-X-Name-Last: Yin Title: Promote the “dual circulation”, build a new development pattern Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 456-460 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1890418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1890418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:456-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1875677_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiao Alvin Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xiao Alvin Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: Redefining a Philosophy for World Governance Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 460-462 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1875677 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1875677 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:3:p:460-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342381_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cui Huang Author-X-Name-First: Cui Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Xiaoxu Yue Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoxu Author-X-Name-Last: Yue Author-Name: Mengqu Yang Author-X-Name-First: Mengqu Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Jun Su Author-X-Name-First: Jun Author-X-Name-Last: Su Author-Name: Jing Chen Author-X-Name-First: Jing Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: A quantitative study on the diffusion of public policy in China: evidence from the S&T finance sector Abstract: With the deepening of the reform and opening-up process, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and other relevant ministries in China have jointly promulgated thousands of policies and regulations in the last few decades. The objective has been to adjust science and technology (S&T) finance policy tools, and to continually optimize an environment of financial support for S&T innovation and related public policies. Studying the diffusion mechanisms of the S&T finance activities in the policy documents jointly issued by these ministries cannot only reflect the intersection and linkages between S&T activities and finance and taxation affairs, but can also create a scientific and feasible research path for the ‘black box’ that is the S&T finance policy process. Based on a review of policy diffusion theory and related literature, and taking China’s S&T finance policy as the research subject, 367 central government policies and 3869 local government policies issued between 1981 and 2015 were collected using the Tsinghua University Government Documents Information System (GDIS). By analyzing the external attributes of the policy literature network, and the timing of keywords used by the internal tools of the policy literature, the process and characteristics of the policy diffusion of S&T achievements transformation were observed along the four dimensions of intensity, breadth, speed, and direction. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 235-254 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342381 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342381 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:235-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342871_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kuotsai Tom Liou Author-X-Name-First: Kuotsai Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Liou Title: Government reform, public governance, and Chinese economic development Abstract: This study examines the relationship between public administration and economic development by focusing on the review of government reform and public governance and the analysis of their implications to Chinese development experience. The paper introduces major theoretical and conceptual issues about government reform, public governance and their relationship with economic development. Based on these concepts, the paper then provides an analysis of some reform cases in China’s development. These reforms include cases in the areas of government effectiveness, regulation quality, corruption control, and information technology. Lessons and implications of the Chinese development experience are provided in the conclusion section. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 255-270 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:255-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342391_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yuejin Jing Author-X-Name-First: Yuejin Author-X-Name-Last: Jing Author-Name: Lina Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Lina Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: The changing institutional space regarding roles and behavior of village leaders: an evolution from villagers’ autonomy to the power list Abstract: The rural society in China has undergone dramatic changes in the past four decades since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening-up. These changes are reflected in width, depth, and disparity. Width refers to the fact that they cover a wide range of aspects, such as politics, economy, society, culture, and mentality; depth refers to the fact that a suite of factors, including the market economy, industrialization, urbanization, population flow, and the Internet, alter the way that villagers make a living and the physical configuration of rural areas in a fundamental manner; disparity refers to the fact that changes in width and depth display a degree of differences in speed and pattern in different areas, as well as the structural difference in the process of resource reallocation (many villages may well vanish on the horizon). At this grand countryside stage, many actors play various roles. Village leaders are brought into the limelight due to their indispensable status, thus, becoming the subject of this research. We seek to explore the roles and behavior of village leaders from the perspective of modernization of rural governance within the framework of the state–society relationship. Precisely speaking, we focus our research on those village leaders who grasp opportunities for development or take the lead during the course of dramatic changes. This article is comprised of three parts. Part 1 presents a brief discussion about the concept of village leaders and outlines a schema delineating their roles and behavior on the grounds of literature review. Unlike existing studies, we focus on the institutional space aimed at normalizing their roles and behavior rather than their specific roles and behavior. It is of vital importance that the behavior of village leaders should be normalized and effective institutions should be formulated in the modernization of rural governance. Thus, Part 2 is primarily concerned about the institutional construction of the roles and behavior of village leaders. Part 3 serves as a recapitulation and carries out further discussions. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 271-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342391 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342391 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:271-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342402_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Honghua Huang Author-X-Name-First: Honghua Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: The mechanism for joint and individual accountability based on the multilayered ‘principal–agent’ relationships: taking the implementing of ‘Peaceful Zhejiang’ as an example Abstract: In China, a significant issue remains as to how to ensure accountability and what kind of accountability should be built under China’s multilayered ‘principal–agent’ relationships. In implementing ‘Peaceful Zhejiang,’ a comprehensive approach to development in this province, accountability needs to be shared among Party and government organizations across different levels of government, as the project aims to bring together efforts across Party and government organizations. Such joint and individual accountability, however, also raises the risk of ‘conspiracy’ among organizations at lower government levels, weakens the capacity to differentiate responsibility, and to evaluate performance, and may undermine motivation for successful implementation of Peaceful Zhejiang. Higher-level local governments, if able to reduce information asymmetry, adjust work priorities continuously, and improve assessment criteria and associated rewards and punishment, can enhance the incentives provided by the assessment system. With both pressure from the top-down and the risk of ‘conspiracy’ from the bottom-up, however, local authorities are prone to be anxious and languid, and may do the least required and leave things to chance or do it at any cost. To break through the multilayered ‘principal–agent’ relationships, China needs to create some horizontal accountability mechanism to build more responsive governments based on delegation of power. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 292-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342402 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342402 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:292-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342897_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiajuan Guo Author-X-Name-First: Xiajuan Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Author-Name: Wenyan Tu Author-X-Name-First: Wenyan Author-X-Name-Last: Tu Title: Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants Abstract: What is the attitude of the Chinese public towards corruption? What are the factors influencing people’s attitude towards corruption? Through large sample surveys of Chinese civil servants, this research found that corruption tolerance of civil servants is low, but the enthusiasm of participation in anti-corruption campaigns is not correspondingly high. Male respondents with longer working experience or with low monthly income appear to have higher corruption tolerance. Awareness of corruption and confidence in government’s anti-corruption efforts also affect attitudes towards corruption. Less understanding about corruption results in higher corruption tolerance and lower enthusiasm to participate in fighting against corruption. Higher confidence in the government’s anti-corruption strategy leads to lower corruption tolerance and stronger willingness to participate in combating corruption. This suggests that a successful campaign of anti-corruption must involve enhancing understanding of corruption and building confidence in the party-state’s strategy on anti-corruption. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 307-328 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:307-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342899_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ziying He Author-X-Name-First: Ziying Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Jinying Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jinying Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: Can zero-markup policy for drug sales in public hospitals resolve the problem of ‘seeing a doctor is too expensive’ in China? A case study of four municipal general tertiary hospitals at H City in Z Province Abstract: The Chinese government launched its New Health System Reform in 2009 aimed at achieving the target of universal health coverage and resolving the long-standing problem of ‘seeing a doctor is too difficult and expensive.’ The Chinese government attributed the origin of this problem to the 15%-markup policy for drug sales in public hospitals from the mid-1990s and began the zero-markup reform as its main solution in 2013. Through a case study of four municipal general tertiary hospitals in H City in eastern China, we found that the zero-markup policy reduced the cost of patients’ drug spending and the income of hospitals’ drug sales, but did not reduce the average expense and out-of-pocket spending of patients. On the contrary, the average expense for medical inspection and examination is rising rapidly every year. Against the background of zero-markup reform for drug sales, public hospitals have gradually shifted from ‘feeding the hospital with drug sales’ to ‘feeding the hospital with medical inspection and examination’ by adding unnecessary services or overtreatments, having to find new ways to meet their costs. Some of this may represent supply-induced demand for services, replacing the supply-induced demand for drugs, which the former markup policy encouraged. We have also found that although the government adjusted the price of medical services to a degree when introducing the zero-markup reform of drug sales, the deficit in medical service funding has risen sharply in the public hospitals. This indicates that the medical service is priced significantly lower than actual costs of the service and that the related social insurance support is also inadequate, therefore continuing high levels of out-of-pocket costs are inevitable. To resolve the problem altogether, the Chinese government must promote a market-oriented reform of pricing mechanism of medical services and adjust the social insurance support accordingly. The key to New Health System Reform is to build a public negotiation mechanism between the government, social health insurance, representatives of hospitals/doctors, and citizens for medical service purchasing to determine the commonly accepted price of quality medical services and the amount patients should contribute themselves, through negotiation and compromise. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 329-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342899 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342899 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:329-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342404_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Li Shao Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Shao Title: China’s crony capitalism: the dynamics of regime decay Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 343-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:343-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1342406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yujing Tan Author-X-Name-First: Yujing Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Title: Fighting for breath: living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 346-348 Issue: 3 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:346-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672360_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Shpakovskaya Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Shpakovskaya Author-Name: Thomas Heberer Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Heberer Title: Introduction Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 295-298 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672360 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672360 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:295-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672361_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jane Mansbridge Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Mansbridge Title: Representation, legitimacy, and innovation Abstract: Increasing interdependence both within and among nations will create in the foreseeable future increasing numbers of collective action, or free-rider, problems. Dealing with those problems will require both significant increases in state coercion and increases in citizens’ feelings of solidarity and duty toward others both within current nations and across large geographic areas. State coercion of defectors provides an ecological niche within which the duty and solidarity of cooperators can survive and thrive. Considerable thought and ingenuity are required to make the needed coercion minimal, well-designed so as to protect rather than driving out duty and solidarity, and above all legitimate. Innovations in the representative system are and will be crucial to making the state coercion we need more legitimate. This paper lists some innovations in thought and practice that can make representation in the legislative, administrative, and societal realms more legitimate, both normatively and in the perception of the citizens. These include mixed member electoral systems, new conceptions of the representative role, new approaches to corruption, evolutions in the theory and institutions that protect human rights, and better conceptions of and practical attention to deliberation, legislative negotiation, recursive communication, descriptive representation, representation by lot, participatory budgeting, and civic vouchers. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 299-322 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672361 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672361 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:299-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672362_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Philippe C. Schmitter Author-X-Name-First: Philippe C. Author-X-Name-Last: Schmitter Title: Crisis and mutation in the institutions of representation in ‘real-existing’ democracies Abstract: ‘Real-existing Democracies’ (REDs) seem to be in real trouble. Academics and practitioners tend to agree on this and both can produce long lists of negative trends to illustrate it. The one thread that connects all of these symptoms is representation and, even more specifically, the extent to which citizen representation through political parties competing in ‘free and fair’ elections within territorial constituencies is capable of keeping rulers accountable and ensuring their legitimacy. Could it be that what are no longer working as they used to and, therefore, generating most of the disaffection among citizens are the partisan channels for articulating, aggregating, deliberating and deciding among competing interests and passions? Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 323-338 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672362 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672362 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:323-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672363_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Heberer Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Heberer Title: Representation in a context across political orders and the Chinese case Abstract: This paper sheds light on the issue of political representation in an authoritarian context, taking China as a case study. In the academic literature, the concept of political representation is primarily related to mechanisms of representation in a democratic setting, used in a rather technical or normative sense and concerned with institutionalized representation in legislatures and parliaments, with a strong focus on elections by which citizens express their political will. The conviction prevails that only persons elected in a competitive electoral procedure can be conceived as legitimate representatives. Widely lacking in the scholarly literature are approaches which explain the nature of political representation in a non-democratic setting. To date, patterns of formal and informal representation in an authoritarian context constitute a ‘black hole’ in the literature on representation. This article tries to answer two research questions: (1) How does representation in an authoritarian system work? (2) What can we conclude from the Chinese case with regard to representation in an authoritarian setting? The article first conceptualizes representation in an authoritarian setting. Second, it examines which mechanisms of representation and representative claims exist in China. Third, it distinguishes between five mechanisms of political representation: formal, informal, symbolic, traditional and digital. It is argued that informal patterns of representation are crucial since formal ones are more strictly controlled. A new and specific role is played by ‘digital representation’: a vigorous form of representation via the cyberspace, spawning new and innovative modes of formal, informal and symbolic political representation. In the conclusions, the author considers what his findings regarding the Chinese case mean for the concept of representation in authoritarian states. He also explains why representation in an autocratic context can produce political output and exhibit legitimacy among the represented. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 339-361 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:339-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672371_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yves Sintomer Author-X-Name-First: Yves Author-X-Name-Last: Sintomer Author-Name: Yunyun Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Yunyun Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: ‘Representation’ and Dàibiǎo: a comparative study of the notions of political representation in France and China Abstract: By scrutinizing the semantics of words and going beyond a nominalist approach, this article compares the theoretical, linguistic and discursive evolution of the notion of representation in France and China, from its ancient origins to its contemporary interpretations. We argue that the word “representation” in English and “dàibiǎo 代表” in Chinese are not interchangeable synonymous, because “representation” includes a symbolic dimension that is absent in dàibiǎo, and because the latter is rarely used when informal representation is concerned. We also argue that both Chinese and Anglo-American political science research overemphasizes mandated representation and underestimates symbolic representation. Furthermore, our empirical research in three provinces of China and two regions of France demonstrates that in both countries, local officials and elected politicians serve a similar role of political intermediaries, who embody state power and respond to citizens’ demands simultaneously, thus enabling a de-facto representative loop. Such argument refutes the current understanding of representation as a “one-way authorization” that is supposed to come either from below (i.e. from the people) in the electoral democracies or from above (i.e. from the state authority) in authoritarian regimes and thus challenges the over-simplistic dichotomy of democratic and authoritarian regimes in representative studies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 362-389 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672371 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672371 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:362-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1672368_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Shpakovskaya Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Shpakovskaya Title: E-representation: the case of blogging people’s Congress deputies in China Abstract: In this exploratory study I join the ongoing research on digitalization of political representation. In the literature on the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the parliamentary and congress members in the Western countries, it is often argued that online engagement has the potential to improve the quality of political representation by means of more direct and individualized communication between representatives and represented. Following the scholarly research on digitalization of political representation in the Western countries, I ask how people’s congress deputies in China appropriate social media for representative communication. I first define political representation in terms of interest expression. I then apply Michael Saward’s representative claim-making perspective and analyse the content of interactions between people’s congress deputies and netizens in the Weibo microblogging sphere in the period between 2013 and 2018. To identify, analyse and categorize online claims, I propose the concept of e-representation, operationalized in terms of individualization, everydayness, interactivity and connectivity. The analysis of online blogging is further complemented by semi-structured interviews with acting and former PC deputies of national and provincial congresses, popular Weibo bloggers (so-called Big V) and academic experts conducted in China throughout 2018–2019. The presented analysis provides empirical evidence from China that also has several theoretical implications. First, it tests Saward’s model by revealing the predominance of incomplete claims. Second, it also shows that claims on representation and misrepresentation are in abundance compared to claims of representation, which are rare. The Chinese case may thus contribute to a more refined typology of representative claims. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 390-405 Issue: 4 Volume: 4 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1672368 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1672368 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:4:p:390-405 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1311487_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: B. Guy Peters Author-X-Name-First: B. Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Author-Name: Yongfei Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yongfei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Local policy-making process in China: a case study Abstract: The previous studies about Chinese policy process give predominant focus in the agenda setting or proposing policy issue stage. There is limited record and analysis on the policymaking process. Once agenda is set, it is government’s responsibility to formulate practical and applicable policy terms. Therefore, a close examination of how local government makes policies is needed. The purpose of this case study is to unveil the basic policymaking process practiced in local Chinese government and also to establish a starting point for further analysis. The question of how and how much citizen participation is involved in the formal and legal day-to-day policy process is answered in this particular case study. Hence, from the purpose, this paper is descriptive to infer the concept of citizen participation in Chinese local government agencies and, if possible, to develop theoretical implications to the formal Chinese local policy process. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 127-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1311487 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1311487 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:127-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1277507_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jing Vivian Zhan Author-X-Name-First: Jing Vivian Author-X-Name-Last: Zhan Author-Name: Shuang Qin Author-X-Name-First: Shuang Author-X-Name-Last: Qin Title: The art of political ambiguity: top–down intergovernmental information asymmetry in China Abstract: China, similar to other countries with multi-level government structure, suffers serious information asymmetry between different levels of governments. Existing studies mostly focus on how the secret information possessed by lower-level governments undermines effective control by upper-level governments. However, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that higher authorities in China often intentionally issue ambivalent orders and withhold crucial information about policy goals and means from their subordinates. In face of such top–down information asymmetry, lower-level governments have to constantly speculate the true intentions of their superiors when implementing directives from above. This study tries to make sense of the seemingly counterproductive political ambiguity by analyzing cases of intergovernmental communication and policy implementation in the campaign of New Socialist Countryside Construction. We argue that higher authorities in China may strategically deploy political ambiguity to enable flexible policy implementation, encourage policy innovation, orient local efforts among multiple policy goals, and reduce accountability for policy failures. Essentially, political ambiguity enhances the adaptability and resilience of the Chinese political system in governing the vastly diverse and rapidly developing country of China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 149-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1277507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1277507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:149-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1286770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Linlin Li Author-X-Name-First: Linlin Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Improvement in the law on farmland transfer in China from a contract governance perspective Abstract: This article focuses on the improvement in the current law on farmland transfer in China from a contract governance perspective. The current regulation on farmland transfer in China features strong government control and suppressed private land rights. Whether in terms of the law or in practice, the participation of individual farmers in the transfer of their contracted farmland is not secured. In this research, the author argues that the design of new procedural rules contributes to better protection of individual farmer’s participation in farmland transfer. Moreover, the research on contract governance provides a great inspiration for the design of such procedural rules. In essence, this contract governance approach is a mix of top-down government regulation and bottom-up autonomy of private parties to the farmland transfer contract. It is hoped that a proper balance between private autonomy and the public regulation of farmland use can be struck under this new governance perspective. To some extent, a shift from the current regulatory system to a governance perspective in regulating farmland transfer helps to implement the existing rules and related policies in practice, on the one hand; on the other hand, it helps to formulate new rules governing certain behaviors of the parties involved. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 169-193 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1286770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1286770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:169-193 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1311497_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Li Jian Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Jian Title: Legitimacy acquisition of social enterprise in China: a case study of Canyou initiatives Abstract: In the special institutional conditions of China, social enterprise faced unfavorable normative and regulatory environments for creating social and economic value under resource-strapped; the growth of social enterprises was essentially equal of the acquisition of legitimacy. More and more social enterprises adopted a hybrid structure including businesses, foundation and NGOs to acquire legitimacy. In this article, employing an in-depth case study, we presented our observations and conceptualization adopted by Canyou initiatives—an 18 years old establish social enterprise to acquire and nurture legitimacy through its Conglomeration in China. The findings highlight how Conglomeration helped the social enterprise to acquire legitimacy throughout three major aspects: the regulative legitimacy, the moral legitimacy and cognitive legitimacy. As an innovation of social enterprises under the external legal constraints, Conglomeration also increases the internal coordination and management performance of the organization. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 194-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1311497 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1311497 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:194-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1311506_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wei Chen Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Shu Keng Author-X-Name-First: Shu Author-X-Name-Last: Keng Title: The Chinese developmental state in transition: in light of the East Asian experiences Abstract: Current debates over China’s industrial policy are the responses to the growing concerns over China’s economic slowdown since late-2000s. After earlier efforts pursuing industrial upgrading, the country now starts to reassess its state-led development strategy. Going forward, the question arises: Why is it necessary to shift from state-led approach to market-enhancing strategy? Grounded on the similarities between the Chinese case and its East Asian neighbors, the paper first reviews the developmental experiences of those East Asian development states and then proposes a hypothesis that heavy state intervention works only for late-developers but less so for economically leading counties. The findings of the paper will not only just shed new light on the general associations between development stages and development strategies but also offer additional references for the countries bidding farewell to economic backwardness. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 209-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1311506 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1311506 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:209-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1311510_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiang Gao Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Title: Promotion prospects and career paths of local party-government leaders in China Abstract: Drawing on biographical data of 202 county and municipal party-government leaders from Zhejiang as well as in-depth interviews, this article finds a bifurcation of career paths among local party-government leaders. It shows that a significant proportion of local leaders has little prospect of promotion. Age restrictions alone make over half of incumbents ineligible for advancement, thus practically placing them in the category of ‘ceilinged cadres’. In addition, more than three quarters of local party-government leaders can be considered ‘native cadres’, i.e. local officials who serving in the same municipality in which they were born or developed their career. Put together, nearly half (43%) of local leaders are both ceilinged and native, who might have to overcome double barriers in order to climb up to a higher rank. Further analysis shows that ‘native-ceilinged cadres’ may not single-mindedly strive for promotion and may instead pursue a local-oriented career path. The article concludes that, instead of implicitly assuming that all local leaders are motivated by promotion, more attention should be paid to specific career incentives among local leaders, which shape their behavior patterns and thus affect the political interactions between the central leadership and local authorities. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 223-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1311510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1311510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:223-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1923230_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Keman Huang Author-X-Name-First: Keman Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Stuart Madnick Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Madnick Author-Name: Fang Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Fang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Michael Siegel Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Siegel Title: Varieties of public–private co-governance on cybersecurity within the digital trade: implications from Huawei’s 5G Abstract: Cybersecurity is becoming an increasing hurdle for digital trade. The governance of cybersecurity in the global digital trade system is a bottom-up approach, where governments are implementing fragmental and inconsistent trade policies and forming different models of public–private co-governance. Based on network-governance theory, information security behavior theory, and international risk theory, we develop a conceptual model to investigate how various factors drive cybersecurity governance practices. Using Huawei’s 5G as an example, this study explores how different governments—the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and India—act on the cybersecurity concerns from Huawei’s 5G. The comparative analysis demonstrates how balancing different factors drive governments' actions and discuss what international corporations like Huawei can do to align their digital trade system strategies. This research guides international firms to participate in cybersecurity governance constructions within the digital trade system. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 81-110 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1923230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1923230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:81-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1934328_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wenguang Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Wenguang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Ji Lu Author-X-Name-First: Ji Author-X-Name-Last: Lu Author-Name: Binbin Song Author-X-Name-First: Binbin Author-X-Name-Last: Song Author-Name: Hongping Lian Author-X-Name-First: Hongping Author-X-Name-Last: Lian Title: Experimentalist governance in China: The National Innovation System, 2003–2018 Abstract: Various policy initiatives have been launched to spur innovation in China. They include pilot cities, self-dependent demonstration areas, and comprehensive reform zones. By reviewing the policy formulation processes of these initiatives, we describe the distinct features of experimentalist governance in China. And, we add to policy process theory by analyzing their authority distribution, strategic objectives, and policy goals and instruments. China’s pursuit of its innovation strategy has caused three experimentalist governance patterns to emerge. The cities explore policy alternatives through adaptive reconciliation. The regions test policy instruments through selective recognition. And, the central government uses hierarchical experimentation to deploy its policy frameworks. Through the temporal and spatial interactions of China’s multilevel governments, these patterns have shaped a progressive approach to the formation (or reformation) of the nation’s innovation policy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1934328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1934328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:1-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1877446_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kai Jia Author-X-Name-First: Kai Author-X-Name-Last: Jia Author-Name: Martin Kenney Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Kenney Title: The Chinese platform business group: an alternative to the Silicon Valley model? Abstract: The current understanding of platform expansion is based upon the experience of US West Coast firms. China, with its largely protected but enormous internal market, provides an ideal ‘experiment’ for examining how platform business models might develop different evolutionary trajectories in different environments. Based upon a study of the two largest platform firms, Tencent and Alibaba, and the far smaller but dominant Chinese online travel agency platform, Trip.com, we demonstrate that a different business model has emerged in China. In contrast to the West Coast model—in which the expansion occurs through internal development and introduction, acquisition, and venture capital investment—Chinese firms have employed two other strategies. The first is listing some of their existing operations separately on the stock market (what we term a ‘sell off’) but not giving up control. The second strategy is interfirm cross investments. The use of these two strategies has led to the formation of an organizational form, that we term the ‘platform business group (PBG)’, which extends and transforms the existing Chinese business group model. We discuss the environmental conditions that enable PBGs to pursue business strategies in a different manner than their Western counterparts and to identify the key conditions that allowed the PBG model to develop. Our extension of platform studies to China enriches and extends theoretical and practical understanding of Chinese platforms. Finally, we discuss the difficulties that PBG firms face in employing their business model internationally. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 58-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1877446 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1877446 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:58-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1864929_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hongying Wang Author-X-Name-First: Hongying Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Hanzhi Yu Author-X-Name-First: Hanzhi Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: Aspiring rule-makers: Chinese business actors in global governance Abstract: Business actors from the global South have traditionally been marginalized in global private governance. But this may be changing. A growing number of business actors in China have become involved in global governance, with some showing an ambition to act as rule makers. What have motivated these Chinese companies? How do they go about promoting their initiatives? What is their relationship with the Chinese government in this endeavor? We explore these questions by empirically investigating two cases—the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) initiated by the Alibaba Group and the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) supported by the State Grid Corporation of China. We identify several areas where the Chinese experience can enrich the literature on global private governance, which has been primarily derived from studies of actors from the global North. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 137-157 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1864929 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1864929 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:137-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1967639_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanzhi Yu Author-X-Name-First: Hanzhi Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Author-Name: Hongying Wang Author-X-Name-First: Hongying Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: The emergence of Chinese high- and new-technology companies in the global arena: challenges and opportunities for governance innovation Abstract: More and more Chinese high- and new-technology companies have entered the global market in the recent years. While their business success has attracted widespread attention, their engagement in governance innovation has been largely ignored by previous studies. This special issue explores the governance challenges and opportunities for Chinese high- and new-technology companies at multiple levels. The empirical case studies of prominent Chinese companies, such as Alibaba, Huawei, the China Railway Corporation, and the State Grid Corporation of China, show a variety of experiences and approaches regarding governance innovation. We hope these studies will encourage more scholars to explore wider patterns of business actor engagement in governance innovation, paying special attention to the new actors from the Global South. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 52-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1967639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1967639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:52-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1807889_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Karl Yan Author-X-Name-First: Karl Author-X-Name-Last: Yan Title: Rethinking China’s quest for railway standardization: competition and complementation Abstract: The Railroad Economic Belt (REB, yilu yidai) was initiated by the China Railway Corporation to support the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The goal of REB is to enhance interconnectivity and deepen the BRI’s infiltration through the export of ‘China Standards’ (zhongguo biaozhun) in railway development. This paper focuses on China’s export of the ‘China Standard’ in highspeed rail and the further integration of Eurasia through the China Railway Express (zhong’ou banlie). It examines their implications on the global highspeed rail market and global logistics governance, respectively. Indeed, China can become a rule-maker in some functional domains of global governance. This paper argues that the expansion of Chinese standards has been done through a ‘top-level design’ approach. Chinese economic statecraft focused on strengthening policy guidance and power concentration at the central level. Standards that are competing in nature face daunting challenges as they have receive backlashes from international competitors. On the other hand, those that are complementary have been much more receptive to international actors. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 111-136 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1807889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1807889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:111-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1898151_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Huanming Wang Author-X-Name-First: Huanming Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Bin Chen Author-X-Name-First: Bin Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Joop Koppenjan Author-X-Name-First: Joop Author-X-Name-Last: Koppenjan Title: A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change: the case of process-tracing China’s central government infrastructure PPP policies between 1988 and 2017 Abstract: How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies from 1988 to 2017 by looking at evolving policy goals, policy measures, and policy co-issuing networks. Results suggest that China’s central government infrastructure PPP policy change follows a refined EG approach in which policies change incrementally in a layering pattern, primarily driven by learning. Findings provide a new account of incremental policy change. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 27-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:27-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1379167_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhenghan Cao Author-X-Name-First: Zhenghan Author-X-Name-Last: Cao Author-Name: Xiaoming Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoming Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Structure hypothesis of authoritarian rule: evidence from the lifespans of China’s dynasties Abstract: Scholars on authoritarianism in China have found that authoritarian resilience is partly derived from the ruling structure contained in the authoritarianism which is also known as the structure of ‘officials governed by the central government, people governed by local governments’ or the ‘ruling structure of the system of prefectures and counties’. Under such ruling structure, the central government, by implementing centralized governance of its officials and decentralized governance of its people, is able to control social and agency risks. Hence, this structure helps the central government to maintain its authoritarian rule and the stability of the state in the long run. This paper summarizes the above point of view into the ‘structure hypothesis of authoritarian rule’: for a large-scale authoritarian state with a vast territory and a large population, if it establishes the system of prefectures and counties as its ruling structure, it will enjoy a high degree of stability; on the contrary, if it deviates from the system of prefectures and counties, the country may be less stable. This paper provides new evidence for this hypothesis based on the lifespans of China’s major dynasties. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1379167 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1379167 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:1-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1428075_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuedong Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xuedong Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Jian Yan Author-X-Name-First: Jian Author-X-Name-Last: Yan Title: Top-level design, reform pressures, and local adaptations: an interpretation of the trajectory of reform since the 18th CPC Party Congress Abstract: Since the 18th Party Congress of the CPC, the Chinese leadership has emphasized ‘top-level design’ in their strategic thinking on reform. In practice, they have attempted to dialectically combine ‘top-level design’ with the approach of ‘crossing the river by feeling the stones’. Such efforts have led to the emergence of a range of decision-making, implementation and supervision institutions primarily aimed at implementing ‘top-level design’. With top-level decision makers demonstrating both ambition and a sense of urgency, the shift in reform strategies has also placed new pressures on local Party and government organizations, which have been forced to accordingly adjust their thinking and behavior. There are some tensions between the current top-down manner of institutionalization and the tradition of lower-level autonomy which began after the initiation of reform and opening up. How to translate such tensions into momentum for reform is an issue meriting further observation and analysis. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 25-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1428075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1428075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:25-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1426363_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Litao Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Litao Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Mobilization and irregularity: volatile growth of educational expenditure in China Abstract: Social policy scholars often take the view that welfare states can be classified into different types based on distinct political philosophies and stable institutional features. However, it is a challenge to fit China squarely into any existing taxonomy. Using the volatile growth of educational expenditure in recent years as an example, this paper contends that China’s social policy in general, educational policy, in particular, has not evolved into a stable model. Much of the irregularity stems from the tension between centralized mandates and decentralized financing, often leading to underfunded social programs. In response, the central government relies on top-down mobilization to achieve unfunded or underfunded policy mandates. Mobilization, however, cannot last long as it stresses and strains local governments. The alternation between mobilization and post-mobilization accounts for the great irregularity in educational financing and poses a serious challenge for China’s welfare state building. There is a need to replace mobilization with a more regularized, sustainable and equitable financing mechanism for education and other social programs. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 49-66 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1426363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1426363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:49-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1429175_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rongbin Han Author-X-Name-First: Rongbin Author-X-Name-Last: Han Author-Name: Linan Jia Author-X-Name-First: Linan Author-X-Name-Last: Jia Title: Governing by the Internet: local governance in the digital age Abstract: In what ways has the expansion of the Internet transformed local governance in China? Through analysis of over 2000 leaked official emails from a district-level Internet propaganda office, the article finds that the Internet has served more as a tool to enhance control rather than to improve governance at the local level. In particular, local authorities have prioritized Internet commentating tasks assigned from upper levels while keeping a close watch on negative publicity of both national and local problems. Their occasional responses to online complaints are often more likely meant to satisfy superiors and pacify the public rather than to address citizens’ concerns. Such a “ruling by the Internet” strategy may bring short-term gains such as preserving social stability on the surface, but may harm the regime in the long run with accumulated social dissatisfaction. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 67-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1429175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1429175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:67-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1377806_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ferdous Rahman Author-X-Name-First: Ferdous Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman Title: Defeating or delaying the defaults: bailout strategy of the Chinese government for its state-owned enterprises on their bond payments Abstract: In financial world, states find bonds as a lucrative way to avail credits from international market to meet its financial deficits. China is not an exception. With the expansion of Chinese bond market and recent default incidents of some of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on their bond payments, it is high time to figure out the possible way-outs and prepare for the way-outs. From the existing practices of international bond market, restructuring and bailout are the two most common forms of non-judicial remedy. Since the emergence of Chinese bond markets, Chinese government is found to bailout its SOEs to prevent default on their bond payment because such default would result in banking crisis including instability among the retail investors, as occurred in Greece and Argentina in recent times. However, the recent trend shows there has been a change in the strategy of Chinese government to let its SOEs survive from the debt crisis by itself. After analyzing the Chinese bond market and its bailout strategy through the comparative and qualitative methods, bailing out has been found as a provisional way out for the Chinese economy to delay the debt crisis, whereas long-term sustainable reforms are required for the SOEs. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 86-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1377806 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1377806 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:86-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1428061_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thais Moretz Author-X-Name-First: Thais Author-X-Name-Last: Moretz Title: An assessment of China’s ability to regulate its iron and steel industries Abstract: Taking the iron and steel industries as a case study, this paper examines China’s ability to implement policies and regulate its industry. The paper first explains that modern government regulation theories go beyond the relationship between government and markets, adding to them the role of civil societies, human behavior and other fields. The paper then sheds light on the specific characteristics of China’s regulatory system and identifies a few elements that make it unique, such as the complexity of central and local government relationships and the large role that State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) retain in China. Lastly, the paper identifies the Chinese policies for the iron and steel industries and then analyzes how SOEs, local government, civil societies, and small corporations behaved during the implementation process of these policies. While the previous literature mainly focuses on the role of Chinese experts in policy formulation, this study extends the previous analysis with the implementation process. Using the iron and steel industries as a case study, this paper examines the institutional responses to China’s central government regulations, assessing China’s ability to regulate the two industries serving as the basis for the case studies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 101-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1428061 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1428061 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:101-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1400294_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rebekka Åsnes Sagild Author-X-Name-First: Rebekka Åsnes Author-X-Name-Last: Sagild Title: Making autocracy work: representation and responsiveness in modern China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 122-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1400294 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1400294 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:122-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1417961_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Linlin Li Author-X-Name-First: Linlin Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Towards a protocol on fair compensation in cases of legitimate land tenure changes: input document for a participatory process Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 124-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1417961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1417961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:1:p:124-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1772537_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Godfrey Yeung Author-X-Name-First: Godfrey Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung Title: Chinese state-owned commercial banks in reform: inefficient and yet credible and functional? Abstract: After the initial public offerings of state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) in 2005–2010, the transformation of the property structure blurred the conventional boundaries between public and private property in China while the state continued to play an important role in the regulation and operation of this ‘hybrid property’: the mixed public-private ownership structure adopted for previously wholly SOCBs. It is could be that the perceived lending bias against private enterprises was a rational decision made by SOCBs in China, partly due to the high transaction costs of risk evaluation and the lack of any formal channels to mitigate the credit risks of such loans. The hybrid nature of SOCBs property rights makes them a credible and convenient channel for the state to provide counter-cyclical lending to contain any exogenous (economic) shocks that might occur as well as long-term financial support for development purposes in the transitional economy and thus contribute to socio-economic and political stability in China. Instead of a stumbling block for economic reforms in China, as posited by the conventional institutional analysts, the ambiguous property rights of SOCBs and their practice of offering favourable loan conditions to state-owned enterprises could actually contribute to their profitability and thus the continuity of hybrid property banking systems and their credibility in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 198-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1772537 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1772537 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:198-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1785142_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Linda Yueh Author-X-Name-First: Linda Author-X-Name-Last: Yueh Title: The China paradox: the endogenous relationship between law and economic growth Abstract: An enduring paradox of China’s remarkable economic growth is the lack of a well-established legal system. By drawing on the credibility thesis, this paper proposes that legal and economic reforms give rise to, and reinforce, the other and the market is underpinned by evolving institutions that are shaped by the expectations of the actors in the economy. It is thus not the form of institutions but their function that is more important in assessing institutional performance. A comparative examination of the USA at a similar stage of legal-institutional development to China provides support for an evolutionary, endogenous process. This institutional analysis will focus on key issues of economic legislation, such as corporate law, patent law and securities. Analyzing the relationship as complementary processes can help explain the paradox of strong economic growth within an under-developed system of law with potential, critical implications for institutional development in other countries. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 257-282 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1785142 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1785142 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:257-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1765453_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shengyue Fan Author-X-Name-First: Shengyue Author-X-Name-Last: Fan Author-Name: Tianyu Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Tianyu Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Mengyao Li Author-X-Name-First: Mengyao Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: The credibility and bargaining during the process of policy implementation—a case study of China’s prohibition of open burning of crop straw policy Abstract: The truncated decision-making of China’s public policy process will inevitably lead to palpable bargaining during implementation. However, there are few concerns and researches at present focus on bargaining intensity between government and social actors. Therefore, the Credibility Thesis is introduced to the policy process in this paper, and the differences of credibility perceived by the public, grassroots government and intermediate government are supposed to reflect the bargaining intensity among them. Based on the adjustability of policy targets and credibility differences, policy implementation is divided into eight types to explain diverse situations more systemically and effectively during policy implementation. Besides, taking prohibition of open burning of crop straw policy (POBSP) as an example, this paper measures the changes of credibility at three points of time during policy implementation and analyzes the bargaining situation among farmers and multi-level governments. The case study proves the applicability of the theoretical framework of the policy implementation based on credibility thesis. It can show the feedback procedure and mechanism of policy implementation, and provide a new perspective for the policy analysis and improving policy performance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 283-306 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1765453 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1765453 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:283-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1841975_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Ho Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Ho Title: The discipline of form: why the premise of institutional form does not apply to Chinese capital, technology, land and labor Abstract: China is an intellectually overwhelming paradox within development thinking. On the one hand, it is regarded as an economic powerhouse pushing forward decades of sustained growth, which even during major global crises, such as the Corona-epidemic and the 2008 Financial Crisis, bounced back with significant resilience. On the other hand, it appears burdened with all of the ‘wrong’ institutions: informal, insecure, and autocratic. This collection of papers posits that the paradox is no contradiction when understood through an alternative, theoretical lens: the function of institutions precedes form when trying to understand institutional performance. Thus, whether institutions are formal or informal, public or private, democratic or autocratic, is of secondary importance to the manner in which they function over time and space. To examine this hypothesis, known as the ‘credibility thesis’, the collection examines China’s institutions that govern: 1) capital; 2) technology; 3) land, and; 4) labor; in effect, state-owned banks, collective firms, corporate law and securities, patents and intellectual property rights, environmental bans, and the civil registration or hukou system. In so doing, it not only falsifies the widely prevalent assumption that institutional form determines performance, but concurrently, validates the applicability of the credibility thesis over widely varying sectors and assets. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 175-197 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1841975 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1841975 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:175-197 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1809272_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shuanping Dai Author-X-Name-First: Shuanping Author-X-Name-Last: Dai Author-Name: Markus Taube Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Taube Title: Strategic ambiguity in policy formulation: exploring the function of the term “township and village enterprises” in china’s industrial ownership reforms Abstract: Ambiguity in policy formulation is a strategy setup with multifarious institutional flexibilities that maintain the credibility of functioning institutions. In the framework of the ‘credibility thesis’ as introduced by Peter Ho, this article posits that Chinese policymakers intentionally or unintentionally made a smart choice in coining the highly ambiguous term ‘TVEs’ for promoting institutional reforms on property rights, and providing a unique buffering effect for a (comparatively) smooth policy transition towards increasingly liberal reform agendas. Furthermore, TVEs’ content was evolving through time and consistently adapting to the interactions among various stakeholders in the reform process. The conceptual ‘3C’ model of strategic ambiguity in policy formulation elaborated by the evidence of TVEs might be an approach for China’s policy studies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 232-256 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1809272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1809272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:232-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1868699_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jie Tan Author-X-Name-First: Jie Author-X-Name-Last: Tan Title: A Bright Shared Future (1), compiled by Chinese Academy of International Trade And Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) of the Ministry of Commerce Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 329-331 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1868699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1868699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:329-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1896206_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shih-Jiunn Shi Author-X-Name-First: Shih-Jiunn Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Title: The changing credibility of institutions: how household registration systems (hukou) in Mainland China and Taiwan define immigrants’ social benefits Abstract: The hukou is one of the enduring institutions that defines social citizenship of residents/immigrants in mainland China. Whilst much discussion has focused on the Chinese case, relatively little attention has been paid to the system in Taiwan, to say nothing of a comparison between the two. This article seeks to enrich the discussion of the two hukou systems in terms of their functions in determining the access of cross-strait immigrants to social benefits in the respective host countries. Drawing on the ‘credibility thesis’, the analytical locus is placed on the continuity and change of institutional functions underlying the apparent persistence of institutional forms. When granting/withholding immigrants access to local social benefits, hukou systems fulfil several functions: firstly, a symbolic dimension, in which immigrants from both sides are (artificially) regarded as citizens of a divided nation rather than two separate countries; secondly, a substantial dimension that defines the scope and extent of social benefit entitlements granted to the immigrants in question; and finally, a management dimension that allows room for considerable administrative discretion in terms of adaptation to various circumstances arising from the unsettled state of cross-strait relations. Often times, realisation of these various functions is compounded by conflicts in identity politics, with repercussions for the generosity/rigidity of social inclusion for cross-strait immigrants. Evidence underpinning the theoretical elaboration stems from the analysis of legal documents regulating the social rights of immigrants in mainland China and Taiwan, supplemented by historical traces of the politics of cross-strait migration. The final findings should shed light on the facilitative/restrictive mechanisms of the hukou regulations in mainland China and Taiwan, highlighting the puzzling phenomenon that both hukou systems are gaining increasing significance in steering the cross-strait migration at a time when their functions in regulating domestic migration are changing, if not waning. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 307-326 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1896206 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1896206 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:307-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1844461_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhihong Yu Author-X-Name-First: Zhihong Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: The quest for attention: nonprofit advocacy in a social media age Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 327-329 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1844461 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1844461 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:327-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1803036_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mengshuang Du Author-X-Name-First: Mengshuang Author-X-Name-Last: Du Title: Corporate governance: five-factor theory-based financial fraud identification Abstract: The frequent occurrences of financial fraud in listed companies have had a serious impact on the stable development of the capital market. The Chinese company, Luckin Coffee, listed in the USA, recently confessed to fabricating transactions worth RMB2.2 billion and has received a delisting notice from NASDAQ. It can be seen that the detection and analysis of financial fraud behavior is very important not only for the internal governance of companies and for their external investors but also for regulatory agencies. This article uses a research method combining normative analysis with empirical research, utilizes a targeted selection of data from the listed companies penalized due to fictitious profits, uses the CRIME theory as the basis for normative analysis, and establishes a financial fraud identification model by means of empirical analysis. Finally, based on the research results of this article, we propose rational governance measures for countering the problems of fraud in financial statements of listed companies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1803036 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1803036 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:1-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1676537_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bryane Michael Author-X-Name-First: Bryane Author-X-Name-Last: Michael Author-Name: Say-Hak Goo Author-X-Name-First: Say-Hak Author-X-Name-Last: Goo Title: The value of the corporate governance canon on Chinese companies Abstract: China has yet to import the corporate governance ‘canon’ (generally accepted rules as promoting share-holder value as well as minority shareholder and other stakeholders’ rights) into its Code of Corporate Governance. What effect would Chinese companies’ simply adopting such a canon—as defined by Hong Kong or other foreign corporate governance practices—have on their share prices? We look at Mainland Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong, looking at the way their share prices react to economic fluctuations when they have better or worse corporate governance practices. Using a differences-in-differences methodology, that such share prices could/would increase by around 7%—increasing profits by about $330 billion. Yet, a significant part of the distribution of these companies lose money in the short-run. These results provide yet another confirmation that adopting the corporate governance canon can profit companies’ investors, but not all of them. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 20-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1676537 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1676537 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:20-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1841483_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yan Wu Author-X-Name-First: Yan Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Yuting Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Yuting Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Yutao Chen Author-X-Name-First: Yutao Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: The influence of board interlocking network centrality on foundation performance: evidence from China Abstract: Using the data of Chinese foundations, this research analyses the relationship between board interlocking network centrality and the performance of Chinese foundations. The result shows that the closeness centrality has a positive impact on their income and public welfare expenditure. In addition, the effect of closeness centrality is strengthened in non-public fund-raising foundations. However, degree and betweenness centrality have no effect on their performance. These findings demonstrate that board interlocking networks play an undoubtedly important role, and that foundations should actively establish and expand board interlocking networks to access all kinds of resources, achieve complementary advantages, and thus enhance their organizational capacity and performance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 43-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1841483 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1841483 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:43-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1731944_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emilie Frenkiel Author-X-Name-First: Emilie Author-X-Name-Last: Frenkiel Title: Participatory budgeting and political representation in China Abstract: In this paper I conduct a comparative analysis of three Chinese experiments with participatory budgeting (PB), a democratic innovation that has circulated worldwide. Relying on a renewed typology of political representation and ethnographic fieldwork combined with official data collection in Chengdu, Sichuan and Wenling, Zhejiang over seven years, it investigates the expansion and practice of PB and analyzes the relationship between participation and representation. It asserts that in the Chinese context PB cannot be simply reduced to empowering civil society against established representatives or becoming an instrument of legitimization for established elites. In the three investigated cases—which are not representative of Chinese local politics—PB does contribute to opening the decision-making process to formerly excluded participants, who are nonetheless not exactly ordinary citizens but rather local elites and “super residents” bridging the gap between established elites and residents. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 58-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1731944 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1731944 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:58-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1721956_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Debora Rezende de Almeida Author-X-Name-First: Debora Rezende Author-X-Name-Last: de Almeida Title: Civil society representation and digital accountability in Brazilian participatory institutions Abstract: This article discusses the potential of social media platforms to promote the accountability of civil society representatives with seats in participatory institutions in Brazil. Various scholars have cited digital platforms as mechanisms for improving the contact between representatives and their constituencies in situations where formal authorization has not occurred. Yet, little research empirically tests the assumptions that civil society representation is democratized by the adoption of these tools. This article contributes to this debate by presenting the concept of digital accountability and the results of qualitative research on National Policy Councils in Brazil responsible for Health and Social Assistance Policies. The study is based on content analysis of Facebook posts published by those councils between 2016 and 2018, and on semi-structured interviews with the managers of council Facebook pages. It argues that three factors explain the different uses of social media by the Councils: the history of participation in each public policy, the platform operators’ perception of the role of social media in the representative process, and the technical support available. These factors may also help to understand the different ways other institutions use digital media and, more broadly, the challenges in connecting non-electoral representatives to their potential constituencies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 81-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1721956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1721956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:81-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1748836_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuedong Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xuedong Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Jian Yan Author-X-Name-First: Jian Author-X-Name-Last: Yan Title: Governance edging out representation? Explaining the imbalanced functions of China’s people’s congress system Abstract: In theory, representation is the primary function of the people’s congresses. In practice, under China’s party-state system, the ruling party imposes specific governance tasks on the congresses with the effect that the representative function of the People’s Congress System has largely given way to its governance functions. The uneven practice of these functions has left the System facing a serious representation deficit. Based on a careful analysis of historical archives and findings from interviews and observations, this paper examines the causes and repercussions of the imbalanced functions of the People’s Congress System. By proposing a Monitoring and Adaptation Model, we adopt a historical perspective to reexamine the interplay between the people’s congresses and the ruling party, arguing that the imbalanced functions of the People’s Congress System result from the interplay between Party monitoring and the corresponding adaptations of the people’s congresses. The Party, to bolster its governing performance, has introduced an array of institutional arrangements to have the people’s congresses fulfill specific governance tasks. However, the people’s congresses have gained a measure of autonomy thanks to their organizational growth and institutionalization, changes to the makeup of deputies, and significant efforts by certain leaders since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Although they are expected to take on the governance functions assigned by the ruling party, the people’s congresses thus enjoy greater leeway to carry out their functions selectively with an eye to improving their standing and relevance in China’s political system. Ironically, the fact that the people’s congresses prioritize their governance functions and that the overall performance of the party-state system gains consistent improvement may have warded off a potential representation crisis as the weak representativeness of the People’s Congress System would otherwise predict. Abbreviations: PCS: The People's Congress System; CPC: The Communist Party of China; The “M&A model”: The Monitoring and Adaptation Model; NPC: National People's Congress; LPCs: Local People's Congresses; CPPCC: The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 110-130 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1748836 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1748836 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:110-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1709324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alex Jingwei He Author-X-Name-First: Alex Jingwei Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Jiwei Qian Author-X-Name-First: Jiwei Author-X-Name-Last: Qian Author-Name: Kerry Ratigan Author-X-Name-First: Kerry Author-X-Name-Last: Ratigan Title: Attitudes toward welfare spending in urban China: evidence from a survey in two provinces and social policy implications Abstract: What explains divergent levels of support for welfare spending in a non-Western authoritarian state? Can self-interest and ideology, two major theoretical frameworks from cross-national research, explain attitudinal patterns in China? Using data collected from an original survey in two provinces in 2017, we examined urban Chinese attitudes toward welfare spending. We focused on three social policy domains with distinctive characteristics: education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation. All domains received fairly high levels of support for increased spending from our sample. Our regression models suggest that self-interest and ideology are both associated with welfare attitudes in urban China, but self-interest variables operate in unexpected ways, reflecting the distinctive socio-economic and cultural context in which welfare attitudes are formed. This study concludes with broad policy implications for social policy reform in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 131-154 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1709324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1709324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:131-154 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1698693_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lijun Chen Author-X-Name-First: Lijun Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Apetogbo Komlan Aklikokou Author-X-Name-First: Apetogbo Komlan Author-X-Name-Last: Aklikokou Title: Relating e-government development to government effectiveness and control of corruption: a cluster analysis Abstract: The government effectiveness and control of corruption is general principle supported in the public sector. By using cross-national secondary data from 191 countries, this study examines how the development of e-government relates to this principle through a two-step cluster analysis. Considering the critical roles of senior civil servants in enacting administrative reforms, the Public Service Bargains (PSB) Theory was employed to analyze the similarities and differences among clustered countries in terms of the level of professionalism, the autonomy of civil services, and the nature of political-administrative relationships. The empirical results indicate a positive association between e-governments’ development and government effectiveness, as well as between e-governments’ development, and their control of corruption. The study contributes to the body of knowledge on the importance of establishing a stable PSB, whether a trustee or agency type, with the minimal internal bureaucratic resistance needed to successfully enact e-governments’ development and eventually improve the overall government’s effectiveness and corruption control. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 155-173 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1698693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2019.1698693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:155-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1455414_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ehtisham Ahmad Author-X-Name-First: Ehtisham Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad Title: Governance models and policy framework: some Chinese perspectives Abstract: While the Chinese governance system retains the characteristic of being in the class of ‘administrative progression models’, it has evolved greatly since the Responsibility System was introduced in the late 1970s, and spread from agriculture to SOEs and local governments. As fiscal strains developed, modern institutions and tax and budget systems were introduced from 1993/4 on, and have been evolving since then. While there has been rapid economic growth, stresses have emerged in terms of congestion and pollution in the major metropolitan areas, increasing spatial and interpersonal inequality, as well as risks associated with possible rent-seeking and buildup of liabilities. Additional economic, institutional and legal reforms are needed to strengthen the governance framework, yet policies taken from US-style competition models may not work. Further, dire predictions based on a medieval characterization of the Chinese model are misleading, and fail to take into account the role of institutions and information that have transformed the Chinese governance structure. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 129-157 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1455414 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1455414 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:129-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1457297_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhirong Jerry Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Zhirong Jerry Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Author-Name: Guocan Su Author-X-Name-First: Guocan Author-X-Name-Last: Su Author-Name: Dan Li Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: The rise of public-private partnerships in China Abstract: This paper examines the rise of public-private partnerships in the longitudinal context of China’s infrastructure finance system since 1978. The system has been characterized by the use of alternative infrastructure finance, including land transfer fees, various types of indirect local government borrowing, and, more recently, the rise of public-private partnerships. While contributing significantly to the unprecedented infrastructure boom, alternative finance sources also raised concerns of fiscal sustainability in China. PPP cannot be an effective way to reduce local governments’ high reliance on debt financing. It is time for the country to develop a more balanced capital structure with ongoing funding support to keep up its long-term infrastructure development. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 158-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1457297 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1457297 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:158-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1448569_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhiwei Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Zhiwei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Contracting out: exporting lessons for Chinese governance Abstract: Market-based reforms such as contracting out or public private partnerships are becoming more common in the public sector across the globe. In particular, reform-minded proposals like contracting out or public private partnerships are gaining momentum in Chinese governance. These reforms are intended to increase efficiency in government decisions, while dealing with scarce fiscal conditions. That said, other factors including democratic practices, political ideology, or the institutional features of government also shape and explain why certain reforms are adopted and practiced. To disentangle what drives government’s ‘make-or-buy’ decisions, we use local US government data to determine the extent to which efficiency concerns drove the adoption of contracting out, compared with other relevant factors. Our findings suggest that the adoption of contracting out is not consistently based on increasing the efficiency of government. A robust and competitive market does increase the use of contracting out, whereas political factors do not appear to be a driving concern. In addition, a local government’s financial well-being plays a critical role in determining the use of outsourcing. Generally speaking, local communities that face financial hardship tend to contract out more municipal services. Lastly, although the empirical study is based on the U.S. context, it sheds lights on a number of policy implications that are useful for Chinese governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 177-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1448569 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1448569 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:177-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1430998_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chunhua Chen Author-X-Name-First: Chunhua Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Bruce Dickson Author-X-Name-First: Bruce Author-X-Name-Last: Dickson Title: Coping with growth in China: comparing models of development in Guangdong and Chongqing Abstract: This paper highlights the importance of local context, the timing of development, and the trade-off between growth and equity in shaping strategies of development. We compare the ‘Guangdong Model’ and ‘Chongqing Model’ of development, two alternative strategies of development in contemporary China. The former emphasized market-oriented reforms, international linkages, and a relatively open environment for civil society; the latter emphasized state-led initiatives to produce economic growth, reduce economic inequality, and reprise traditional practices of the Chinese Communist Party. This paper contrasts the ideological aspects of the two models, along with the political strategies of the leaders most associated with them and the results of their policies. Although China remains a one-party political regime, the Guangdong and Chongqing models are also the most recent manifestation of different localities pursuing different economic models. Rather than providing alternative models for China’s future development, they reveal trade-offs between economic and social goals and how best to achieve them. Their experiences also have implications for other developing countries trying to balance competing developmental goals. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 197-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1430998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1430998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:197-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1457309_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Max-Sebastian Dovì Author-X-Name-First: Max-Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Dovì Title: Party and state policy documents and China’s economy: some macro-level empirical evidence Abstract: This paper compares a unique dataset tracking the content of all Central Committee and State Council documents with economic variables in China in the period 2003–2015. After motivating the dataset, two time-series measuring the relative importance of economic issues within the Party and the State are constructed. These two time-series are then compared with measures of China’s real economy using a Granger test. The results suggest that past measures of China’s economy can better help predict the State Council’s future prioritisation of economic issues, but not vice versa. A similar relation is not found for the Central Committee’s prioritisation of economic issues. This result is consistent with the view that it is the State that takes a more active role in managing the Chinese economy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 223-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1457309 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1457309 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:223-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1455413_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rui Mu Author-X-Name-First: Rui Author-X-Name-Last: Mu Author-Name: Martin De Jong Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: De Jong Title: The psychology of local officials: explaining strategic behavior in the Chinese Target Responsibility System Abstract: This article shows how a deeper understanding of the psychological roots of strategic behavior in the targets approach can provide a fresh perspective for policy makers and public administrators to alter behavior. It presents how the Target Responsibility System (TRS) is deployed in China, identifies what types of strategic behavior emerge in the TRS, and explores what psychological insights can be drawn to explain the emergence of strategic behavior. Semi-structured elite interviews were conducted. The central theoretical takeaway is that in the target setting and implementation processes, the behavior of local officials benefits individuals, not organizations; their psychology is geared to challenges in different stages of the target achievement process; and four cognitive biases can be used to explain the emergence of different types of strategic behavior. The empirical implications are that China’s specifics lie in that the tight relationship between target performance and cadre evaluation/promotion, and the use of numbers to political ranks provide fertile ground for an overall psychology where any error or failure must be avoided. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 243-260 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1455413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1455413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:243-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1423855_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yu-Wen Chen Author-X-Name-First: Yu-Wen Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: The pragmatic dragon: China’s grand strategy and boundary settlements Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 261-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1423855 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1423855 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:2:p:261-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1875675_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hedda Flatø Author-X-Name-First: Hedda Author-X-Name-Last: Flatø Title: Trust is in the air: pollution and Chinese citizens' attitudes towards local, regional and central levels of government Abstract: Scholars, commentators and Chinese policymakers point to air pollution as a possible challenge to the popular standing of the Communist Party of China’s rule. However, the question of whether air pollution is systematically linked with Chinese citizens’ attitudes toward authorities has not been studied for the country as a whole, during the past decade’s surge in attention to environmental problems. Analyzing high-quality, nationally representative survey data in combination with satellite-based PM2.5 estimates, this research finds that citizens who perceive local air to be of bad quality have lower probability than others for expressing trust in county and provincial governments. Air pollution did not make a significant difference to probability for trusting central government. The study contributes to hierarchical trust literature and identifies differential trust dynamics for observed and perceived air pollution and over time, across Mainland China’s population. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 180-211 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1875675 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1875675 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:180-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1943948_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lei Liu Author-X-Name-First: Lei Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Lixu Tang Author-X-Name-First: Lixu Author-X-Name-Last: Tang Author-Name: Rui Liu Author-X-Name-First: Rui Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Mingyue Li Author-X-Name-First: Mingyue Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: The career characteristics of China’s prefectural environmental protection bureau heads with implication for the environmental governance Abstract: As the direct responsible cadre in China’s local environmental management, the role of environmental protection bureau head (EPBH) is both critical and embarrassing. However, the profile of this group of cadres is largely unknown. This paper makes the first attempt to delineate China’s prefectural EPBHs and find several distinct features. First, although advocated by the central authority, “be younger” has not been realized in the appointment of EPBH. On the contrary, older candidates have been more favored in recent years. Second, EPBH is primarily a political actor rather than professional actor. However, they have been bearing increasing political pressure due to professional task. Third, county governments and other prefectural departments are the most important sources of EPBH, while for general environmental officials, it is very hard to be promoted as EPBH. Fourth, the promotion chance of EPBH is relatively high and most of them have been promoted to county governments and other prefectural departments. Last, the number of EPBHs removed because of dereliction has increased notably, but only a small fraction was sanctioned for poor and fraud environmental supervision. Finally, corresponding suggestions are proposed to optimize the selection, appointment, and management of EPBH. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 212-235 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1943948 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1943948 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:212-235 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1873609_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Li Liu Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Yuxin Wang Author-X-Name-First: Yuxin Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Anoma Ariyawardana Author-X-Name-First: Anoma Author-X-Name-Last: Ariyawardana Title: Rebuilding milk safety trust in China: what do we learn and the way forward Abstract: The melamine scandal of 2008 has caused significant consumer distrust on milk safety in China. Thus, the rebuilding of consumers’ trust towards Chinese milk safety has emerged as a key issue for governance in the dairy industry. Based on the trustee- and trustor-centric perspectives, it shows that existing studies ignore that trustees and trustors are interdependent in the dairy system. The examination of milk safety issues in isolation hinders effective rebuilding of trust and milk safety governance in China. In this review, we investigate both the current government and corporate actions (trustees) to assure milk safety and multiple factors that influence consumers’ trust (trustors) on milk safety in China. Our analysis revealed that the Chinese government and dairy corporates have adopted various measures to improve milk safety, and gradually introduced broader interventions to recover consumers’ trust in Chinese milk. However, to fully recover consumers’ trust and meet their expectations, consumers need to be engaged in the processes of milk safety governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 266-290 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1873609 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1873609 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:266-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1813395_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ehtisham Ahmad Author-X-Name-First: Ehtisham Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad Title: Multilevel responses to risks, shocks and pandemics: lessons from the evolving Chinese governance model Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed strengths and weaknesses of different governing models around the world. In all cases, national coordination and financing is needed together with local information generation, early warning, as well as using big data to identify problem clusters, track, trace and quarantine potentially infectious people. Also, primary health care at the local level has to be the basis for actions, as well as local support for affected households. In China, delays in information generation and local actions were compensated by prompt central response, coordination and management of the pandemic. This points to the need to further strengthen the Chinese Governance Model. In many other countries, a lack of coordinated federal or national actions and financing, and weak coordination with subnational administrations has led to catastrophic outcomes. The national coordination actions need to be replicated with stronger international coordination. The need for reforms also is relevant for achieving sustainable growth in the future at both national and global levels, including also risks from climate change. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 291-319 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1813395 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1813395 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:291-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1809312_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lei Guo Author-X-Name-First: Lei Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Author-Name: Yuhao Ba Author-X-Name-First: Yuhao Author-X-Name-Last: Ba Title: Ambiguity and conflict in pension policies implementation: evidence from China Abstract: While the literature generally acknowledges that target groups affect policy implementation, we argue that a more detailed investigation of the mechanisms and factors associated with such effect is necessary. Drawing on the Ambiguity-Conflict Model, we explore how target groups’ perceived policy ambiguity and conflict relate to the implementation of Corporate Employee Pension (CEP) policies in China. Empirically, we utilize a unique sample of all firms listed on China’s A-stock market from 2008 to 2014 and hypothesize that target groups’ perceived policy ambiguity and conflict negatively associate with the implementation outcomes of the CEP policies in China. Our results confirm such a relationship and suggest that the implementation outcomes, from most favorable to least favorable, follow the order: Administrative Implementation, Political Implementation or Experimental Implementation, and Symbolic Implementation. Such results are robust to both state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises. Our research offers implications for both scholars and practitioners of pension policies in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 320-339 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1809312 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1809312 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:320-339 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1968192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jun Li Author-X-Name-First: Jun Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Public participation in China: the case for environmental enforcement Abstract: This paper addresses the impact of formal and institutionalized public participation on local environmental enforcement in contemporary China. I gathered 14 years (2000–2014) worth of public participation data (e.g. letters, office visits, local NPC and CPPCC proposals) from official sources (e.g. Chinese Environmental Yearbook, National Bureau of Statistics) and developed a quantitative model to explain how different channels of institutionalized public participation influence processed environmental violation cases. My findings show that institutionalized public participation, in particular, petition-oriented office visits has an impact on facilitating China’s local environmental enforcement due to its potential risks to political stability. This is evidenced by the relationship between office visits and the increased number of environmental penalties. I also found that institutionalized public participation, such as petitioning, functions as leverage against the government apart from as a platform for policy feedback. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 159-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1968192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1968192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:159-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1796160_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ronghui Yang Author-X-Name-First: Ronghui Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Klasien Horstman Author-X-Name-First: Klasien Author-X-Name-Last: Horstman Author-Name: Bart Penders Author-X-Name-First: Bart Author-X-Name-Last: Penders Title: Constructing the accountability of food safety as a public problem in China: a document analysis of Chinese scholarship, 2008–2018 Abstract: Incessant food safety scandals in China have given rise to a loss of public trust in food safety, stimulating a series of studies focussing on food safety governance, accountability, and trust restoration. Against this backdrop, Chinese scholars are keen to reflect on different strategies for ensuring food safety public accountability and credibility, presenting different perspectives on issues like responsibility, trust, risk communication, and transparency. In this paper, we aim to get more in-depth insight into how Chinese scholarly debates co-construct public accountability for food safety as a public issue. We selected 51 articles from 10,790 candidates drawn from four Chinese academic databases for content analysis. Drawing from political theories on public accountability as well as science and technology studies, the analysis shows that arguments for a specific public accountability model (more or less centralised, more or less stakeholder participation) are intertwined with the specific role of scientific expertise (more or less authoritative, more or less democratising). As such, the analysis shows how scholarly debates on public accountability for food safety in China co-construct a public forum for discussing supervision and accountability, risk assessment, and transparency. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 236-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:2:p:236-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243907_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jesper Schlæger Author-X-Name-First: Jesper Author-X-Name-Last: Schlæger Author-Name: Qian Wang Author-X-Name-First: Qian Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: E-monitoring of public servants in China: higher quality of government? Abstract: This paper examines the role of e-monitoring in anti-corruption in China. Previous research has described different administrative monitoring systems, but so far these empirical accounts lack a comprehensive theoretical framework. This paper applies institutional theory to explain how e-monitoring has become an important part of a strategy to lead China towards higher quality of government. The study in turn examines the actors, ideas, technologies, and institutionalization of e-monitoring. The findings are based on the synthesis of previous research, interviews, and documentary analysis. The study finds that e-monitoring has become pervasive in anti-corruption efforts, enhancing transparency of government work processes by a combination of top-down and bottom-up instruments. It is, however, uncertain whether e-monitoring will lead to higher quality of government in China, because this depends on the timing of corruption campaigns as well. The paper argues for the importance of including e-monitoring in theories of quality of government to better understand the dynamics of anti-corruption in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:1-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243906_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuefei Lin Author-X-Name-First: Xuefei Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Xianglin Xu Author-X-Name-First: Xianglin Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Title: Structural restraints and institutional innovation in local governance: a case study of administrative examination and approval system reforms in Shunde, Ningbo, and Taizhou Abstract: In the governance system under China’s unitary administration model, local governments not only have to undertake the overall administration responsibility for the regional development and stability, but also have to accept the professional and functional supervision of various departments of the central government. This compartmentalized management system creates an objective structural constraint on the system innovation of local governments. In a governmental administrative system where the two contrasting logical notions of hierarchical authority (known as a ‘kuai’) and administration based on function (known as a ‘tiao’) are combined, the biggest obstacle to the system innovation in local governance is protecting the interests of various internal departments under the ‘dual leadership’. To make a breakthrough in the systematic protectionism of interests, local leaders with keen determination to reform the governance system must take active initiatives, acquire more political resources, and give full play to new creative forces in order to implement corresponding system innovation in local governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 20-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:20-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1286790_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lijun Chen Author-X-Name-First: Lijun Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Yan Fu Author-X-Name-First: Yan Author-X-Name-Last: Fu Title: Dynamics of the rise of the privately-run and government-subsidised think tank and its influence in talent policy making—case study of the Zhejiang Institution of Talent Development Abstract: Since China’s reform and opening up, the role of think tanks in policy-making has increased providing decision-makers with an ‘internal reference’ for agenda setting. Think tanks are frequently entrusted by government to undertake policy research projects. In the context of strong ideological control where official think tanks have dominated, a new-type of privately-run and government-subsidised think tanks has emerged in the field of talent policy. Using the Zhejiang Institution of Talent Development as an example of a typical privately-run and government-subsidised think tank, this study explores the dynamics of the increasing role and influence of such think tanks in policy making. Firstly, at a macro level, there is increasing demand for skilled labour as China’s economy grows and changes, and provinces compete for talent: this has led to increasing demand by provinces for talent policies and, given their limited policy-making expertise, to increasing dependence on external think tanks’ policy research expertise. Then, the study describes ZITD’s structure and operations, and analyses ZITD’s ‘participation mode’ approach involving participation in four phases of policy development: preliminary research, agenda setting, program design, ultimate decision making. From this, the study concludes that the key success factors for privately-run and government-subsidised think tanks are: building long-term sustainable cooperation between government and experts, promoting evidence-based talent policy decision-making, and canvassing a wide range of possible policy objectives. Also, however, such think tanks face challenges in expressing independent opinions, recruiting and retaining their own experts and expanding their influence in decision-making. Finally, whether the rise of privately-run and government-subsidised think tanks improves public participation or democracy in policy-making system could be the subject of further exploration. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 50-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1286790 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1286790 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:50-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1284430_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ting Guan Author-X-Name-First: Ting Author-X-Name-Last: Guan Author-Name: Jørgen Delman Author-X-Name-First: Jørgen Author-X-Name-Last: Delman Title: Energy policy design and China’s local climate governance: energy efficiency and renewable energy policies in Hangzhou Abstract: This study probes into climate policy design at city level in China, with Hangzhou’s energy efficiency and renewable energy policies between 2005 and 2014 as a case. The study applies a political action arena approach to accentuate the importance of different normative preferences behind climate change policies in relation to Hangzhou’s emerging urban climate governance regime. Three main categories of policy instruments are identified: i.e. command-and-control, market-based, and collaborative governance instruments, and their development over time is examined. It is concluded that in Hangzhou energy efficiency is a more mature and comprehensive political action arena than renewable energy. The study also finds that there has been a significant shift away from preferences towards command-and-control to more market-based instruments, while cooperative governance instruments are still in their infancy. It finally shows that the design and implementation of local programs, especially the selection of policy instruments, are strongly influenced by the normative preferences of local officials. Thus, the approach of Hangzhou’s government to the design and implementation of climate policies seem to gradually become less authoritarian, more market based, and more accountable, due to the inherent complexity of this political action arena. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 68-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1284430 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1284430 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:68-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1286791_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yanhua Deng Author-X-Name-First: Yanhua Author-X-Name-Last: Deng Author-Name: Jonathan Benney Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Benney Title: Selective use of political opportunity: a case of environmental protest in rural China Abstract: This paper explores the selective and instrumental use of political opportunity in Chinese contentious politics through the study of a rural environmental protest. By considering the transmission of political opportunity through different levels of government, it also analyses the phenomenon of leakage of political opportunity. We argue that political opportunities can be divided into soft and hard types, which are weighted differently by activists. In the protest we examine, the villagers had various political opportunities at their disposal. They used them selectively, preferring the opportunities arising from changes to land policy, which were relatively hard and had a higher level of operability than environmental political opportunities—despite their grievances being largely connected with environmental damage. The hard, land-oriented opportunities, however, went through a process of leakage and then became merely symbolic, due to the local government’s manipulation of policy implementation. However, although they were well aware that the symbolic political opportunities were not genuine, the protesters still acted as if they were real and exploited them instrumentally. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 91-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1286791 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1286791 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:91-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1284429_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Tao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Lutz Leisering Author-X-Name-First: Lutz Author-X-Name-Last: Leisering Title: Protecting injured workers: how global ideas of industrial accident insurance travelled to China Abstract: Industrial accident insurance establishes an individual right to protection against a key risk of industrial modernity. Introduced in Imperial Germany in 1884, accident insurance became a global model, promoted by the International Labour Organization. In 2004, China adopted the German and ILO models of accident insurance, although individual rights are not rooted in Confucianism or Sino-Communism. Drawing on theories of global knowledge diffusion, we analyse the views and beliefs of Chinese experts that underpinned this unlikely reform. We find that the experts advocated the global model because in their view it reflected broader global norms and values. But, Chinese policy-makers also limited the influence of global ideas, by designing the administration of accident insurance in accordance with ‘Chinese’ traditions. The findings testify to the world-wide spread of social protection influenced by global ideas, but they also expose the limits of the notion of a global culture of social protection. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 106-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1284429 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1284429 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:106-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243908_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiang Gao Author-X-Name-First: Xiang Author-X-Name-Last: Gao Title: China’s Future Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 124-126 Issue: 1 Volume: 2 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243908 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243908 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:124-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1799641_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jessica C. Teets Author-X-Name-First: Jessica C. Author-X-Name-Last: Teets Author-Name: Nele Noesselt Author-X-Name-First: Nele Author-X-Name-Last: Noesselt Title: The state of the field for governance and policy innovation in China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 413-418 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:413-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1746511_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meina Cai Author-X-Name-First: Meina Author-X-Name-Last: Cai Author-Name: Pengfei Liu Author-X-Name-First: Pengfei Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Hui Wang Author-X-Name-First: Hui Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Land commodification and hukou policy innovation in China: evidence from a survey experiment Abstract: This article examines how land commodification has changed the dynamics of hukou policy innovations in China. The increasing demand of local governments for land to fuel industrialization and urbanization creates appreciating land values, which in turn lead villagers to update their belief about the value associated with their rural hukou. This is perhaps especially the case in economically more developed areas where rural benefits, many of which involve land, induce villagers to value their rural hukou and to be more resistant against land expropriation. This leads local governments, many of which are fiscally dependent on land, to provide more generous land-taking compensation, including an urban hukou. Drawing on an original survey experiment, we find that villagers are less willing to give up their land and change their hukou status from rural to urban when they are not provided with pension benefits and when their collective yearly dividends are discontinued. Our findings suggest the difficulties in implementing the ‘land for hukou’ policy innovations in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 419-438 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1746511 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1746511 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:419-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1802212_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yutong Si Author-X-Name-First: Yutong Author-X-Name-Last: Si Title: Implementing targeted poverty alleviation: a policy implementation typology Abstract: Existing research on the targeted poverty alleviation program in China struggles to explain the dynamics of policy implementation. This article incorporates individual-level factors such as street-level bureaucrats’ discretion and behaviors with institutional elements, thus combining structure-centered and actor-centered approaches. The data utilized is from 19 semi-structured interviews with township officials, local village cadres, and villagers located in an eastern province in China. By identifying and coding the policy perspectives of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ (i.e. village cadres in this case) through a two by two factorial table (combinations of the identifiability and the participation willingness of the target population), this study conceptualizes the policy output of ‘behaviors of implementers’ to categorize the policy implementation outcomes of the program. The four policy implementation patterns identified are supportive policy implementation, passive policy implementation, unsustainable policy implementation, and performative policy implementation. By isolating these four policy implementation patterns, this research provides insights on local governance and policy implementation in contemporary rural China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 439-454 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1802212 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1802212 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:439-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1796406_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jen-fang Ting Author-X-Name-First: Jen-fang Author-X-Name-Last: Ting Author-Name: Shanwen Guo Author-X-Name-First: Shanwen Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Author-Name: Lingxin Liao Author-X-Name-First: Lingxin Author-X-Name-Last: Liao Title: Homeowner associations and community governance structure in urban China: a politico-economic reinterpretation Abstract: Chinese homeowner associations (HAs) actions to protect rights have attracted scholarly attention due to beliefs that a new type of local governance or public sphere was being created from bottom-up representation in recent years. However, the current literature studies the impact of actions to protect the rights of HAs on community governance from different angles, but none have tried to analyze some structural factors that might have conditioned these. In general, they are descriptive or prescriptive, behavior-oriented, model-bounded, and case-specific. As a result, they are short of predictability or generalizability.This essay examines the external and internal structural factors for actions to protect rights and combines them as a politico-economic reinterpretation with a focus on the internal governance structure. It argues, the external environment of actions to protect the rights of HAs exhibits a ‘political opportunity structure’, which has fueled the uprising of a rights-protecting movement. Meanwhile, the internal structure shows that the nature of an ‘incomplete contract’ for property transfer between developers and homeowners is a condition of the development of community governance and its performance. When combined together, this internal-external nexus leads to different explanations and to some possible solutions to improve governance for commercial housing communities in urban China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 455-476 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:455-476 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1796411_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Holly Snape Author-X-Name-First: Holly Author-X-Name-Last: Snape Author-Name: Weinan Wang Author-X-Name-First: Weinan Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Finding a place for the Party: debunking the “party-state” and rethinking the state-society relationship in China’s one-party system Abstract: This paper proposes a new agenda for research on Chinese politics that overcomes the obscuring effect of the ubiquitous ‘party-state’ construct, finds a substantive place for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and thereby reveals dynamics of the interplay between the Party, society and state that otherwise remain hidden. Since the 1980s, the state-society relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship. Yet most such work treats the CCP as little more than the assumed and elusive source of power behind the state. We show why, in conceptualizing and theorizing this one-party state’s state-society relationship, it is imperative to separate ‘Party’ from ‘state,’ to bring the former under close scrutiny, and to do so in a way that accounts for the multidimensional, multidirectional interplay between state, society and Party. We combine a historical perspective with analysis of political documents and discourse to demonstrate how research toward this new agenda might be pursued. By doing so, we offer examples of the dimensions and dynamics of governance processes, such as tensions between Party and state imperatives, the implications of Party reliance on the state to influence society, and the possible spaces for actor agency that, without this proposed shift, go ignored or misinterpreted. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 477-502 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:477-502 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1751947_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zhen Wang Author-X-Name-First: Zhen Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Seeking performance or control? Tethered party innovation in China’s performance evaluation system Abstract: In the Xi Jinping era of rising central power and reduced local autonomy, is there still room for policy experimentation? If any, what is the nature of this innovative behavior? This article argues that the party state still allows much room for policy innovation, only that this space for innovation is conditioned by the Party’s concern for political control. Drawing on original field research, the article examines two cases of the Chinese Communist Party’s innovation in personnel management, with a particular focus on reforming the Performance Evaluation System (PES) to better incentivize cadres to fulfill work targets. The analyses of the systemic changes of the PES resulting from the Party’s innovation efforts as well as the nature of such changes show that despite the Party’s tireless efforts to reinvent the PES regime so as to better motivate cadres to fulfill work targets, these efforts are undermined at the same time by the Party’s pursuit of bureaucratic stability, personnel control, and grip on power. The research seeks to bring findings about the PES into more meaningful conversations with the scholarship on policy innovation and experimentation. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 503-524 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1751947 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1751947 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:503-524 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1769539_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Steven J. Balla Author-X-Name-First: Steven J. Author-X-Name-Last: Balla Author-Name: Zhoudan Xie Author-X-Name-First: Zhoudan Author-X-Name-Last: Xie Title: Consultation as policymaking innovation: comparing government transparency and public participation in China and the United States Abstract: This article compares government transparency and public participation in policymaking across China and the United States. The analysis specifically focuses on the notice and comment process—government announcement of proposed policies and solicitation of public feedback—at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The MOC and EPA are leading organizations in the implementation of such consultation in their respective countries. Information is collected and coded for hundreds of draft regulations and thousands of public comments that occurred during the 2002–2016 period. Statistical analysis of levels of, and variation in, transparency and participation demonstrates both similarities and differences in the operation of the notice and comment process at the MOC and EPA. Transparency and participation are generally lower at the MOC than in EPA consultations. Within such constraints, however, there is evidence of standardization in the administration of consultation by the MOC. These findings suggest that differences in the Chinese and U.S. political systems, rather than issues of administrative capacity, are the primary limitations of consultation as a policymaking innovation in contemporary China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 525-545 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1769539 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1769539 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:525-545 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1762466_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nele Noesselt Author-X-Name-First: Nele Author-X-Name-Last: Noesselt Title: City brains and smart urbanization: regulating ‘sharing economy’ innovation in China Abstract: Starting from the officially proclaimed readjustment of the People’s Republic of China’s national development road map, this article engages in a theory-guided evaluation of the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy in connection with its smart city initiatives. The government’s official quest to steer China toward a ‘new mode of urbanization’ has, as this article argues, facilitated the rise of the country’s ‘sharing economy’/’platform economy’, with the mushrooming of a private AI economy offering ‘smart’ algorithm-optimized solutions to complex urban governance dilemmas. To (re)strengthen control and to cement central authority, the Chinese government has set out to regulate and standardize this emerging private platform economy sector—while also attempting not to interrupt the innovation drive of the Chinese AI landscape as such. This article argues that these regulation efforts, contrary to conventional top-down steering approaches, rely on central-local collaboration and network coordination that involves a number of multiple actors operating under the ‘shadow of hierarchy’ of the central party-state. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 546-567 Issue: 4 Volume: 5 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1762466 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1762466 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:5:y:2020:i:4:p:546-567 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1245469_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrew Podger Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Podger Title: Introduction to special topic: contemporary challenges for financial management and budgeting in China Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 543-545 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1245469 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1245469 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:543-545 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1241938_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanyu Xiao Author-X-Name-First: Hanyu Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao Title: Public financial management and the campaign against extravagant position-related consumption in China Abstract: It is widely believed that public finance management is a key factor in keeping the government away from corruption and fiscal misconduct. However, rules and regulations of public finance management are embedded in the macro institutional settings, and thus are subject to broader influences impacting implementation of these rules. Employing the perspective of informal institutions, this research explores how formal financial rules interact with informal rules in position-related consumption in China. It finds that financial rules are relatively weak as compared to informal rules. In order to curb extravagant position-related consumption and to achieve good governance in China, it is imperative to take informal rules into consideration when designing the anti-extravagance policy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 546-563 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1241938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1241938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:546-563 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1245472_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zaozao Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Zaozao Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Why local governments need performance evaluation: intermediary institutions in the performance-based budgeting process in China Abstract: Performance-based budgeting (PBB) focuses on how to use performance indicators and measurement information during the budgetary process so that the public sector and governments can manage public resources more efficiently and effectively. Since the 1980s, PBB has been popular in public budgeting reform around the world. However, there is no universally accepted definition and practical model of PBB. In China, for over 10 years now, there has appeared a role for special Performance Evaluation Intermediary Institutions (PEIIs) in the PPB and these have become an important participant in the budgetary process. This research will firstly introduce the characteristics and development of PEIIs in China. Secondly, it will try to reveal why local governments increasingly depend on PEII in the PBB process. There are three main reasons: the first is to make up for governments’ limited technical capacity in performance evaluation; the second is to increase the credibility of performance evaluation among stakeholders; and the third is to move debate about resource allocation from within government to wider external forums. Finally, this research presents and discusses three findings: firstly, the better capability the PEIIs have, the bigger impact the PEIIs can have; secondly, that trust between the PEII and the local financial department is a very important success factor; and thirdly, the characteristics of local governments and financial departments affect the role and impact of PEIIs. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 564-573 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1245472 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1245472 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:564-573 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1245473_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meili Niu Author-X-Name-First: Meili Author-X-Name-Last: Niu Title: Adoption or implementation: performance measurement in the city of Guangzhou’s Department of Education Abstract: Performance-based budgeting (PBB) has become popular over recent decades in both developed and developing countries. How a line agency evaluates program performance is crucial to understand PBB reform in the Chinese budgeting system. This study uses the Education Department of a major Chinese city that pioneered PBB reform in China. Inspired by the conceptual framework developed by Julnes and Holzer (2001), the author finds that the Education Department ‘adopted’ the techniques of performance measurement at the beginning of the reform then moved to the ‘implementation’ stage shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, after three years of ambitious innovation, the department reverted back to the ‘adoption’ stage. Apart from the technical difficulties involved in the reform, other contextual factors—leadership changes, accountability mechanisms, lack of consensus on the approach reform should take, and organizational capacity—shaped the direction of the PBB reform. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 574-590 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1245473 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1245473 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:574-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243378_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ping Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Ping Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Zizhou Bu Author-X-Name-First: Zizhou Author-X-Name-Last: Bu Author-Name: Youqiang Wang Author-X-Name-First: Youqiang Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yilin Hou Author-X-Name-First: Yilin Author-X-Name-Last: Hou Title: Education outlay, fiscal transfer, and inter-region funding equity: a county-level analysis of education finance in China Abstract: Over the past three decades, education finance in China has transitioned, against the background of high economic growth and fast socio-political development, from a local-only financing regime to a new regime that involves a combination of local, provincial and central funding. Beginning in year 2000, the central and provincial governments have stepped in to reduce inter-region disparity and to improve equity and the overall quality of basic education throughout China’s vast rural areas. The fast-track transition provides a good window for scholars to study the impact of the changing education finance regimes. The paper analyses the differential effects of the local, provincial and central funding levels on the within-province equity of education finance, and provides evidence on how policy shocks in a fast growing economy can affect education provision in a transitioning system. We test the differential effects of the financing regime transition on the equity of education finance, taking advantage of provincial level data and a panel data set of county-level jurisdictions across the country. With a constructed inequity index, we examine the impact of policy shocks, controlling for multiple factors. While our results suggest the measures taken may have dampened growth in inequity, they do not provide evidence of improved equity overall, revealing that disparity is still growing between developed and less developed counties. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 591-610 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243378 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243378 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:591-610 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243905_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Heberer Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Heberer Title: The Chinese ‘Developmental State 3.0’ and the resilience of authoritarianism Abstract: Political scientists frequently argue that authoritarian systems are per se economically inefficient, non-innovative, and without legitimacy. China’s economic success and relative stability in recent decades have shown, however, that such postulates are far too simplistic. Accordingly, the question is why China is managing to develop so smoothly and how its stability and legitimacy are to be explained. This article takes up the concept of the ‘developmental state’ in order to better explain and localize the function and behavior of the Chinese state. It argues that developmental states exhibit specific features that help elucidate and explain the ‘resilience’ of the Chinese political system. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 611-632 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:611-632 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1243377_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kyle Jaros Author-X-Name-First: Kyle Author-X-Name-Last: Jaros Title: Rethinking subnational government capacity in China Abstract: It is clear that some subnational governments are better than others at orchestrating major policy programs, yet important questions remain about how and why subnational government capacity varies from case to case. Scholarship that emphasizes political agency in explaining subnational policy outcomes is not always clear as to where such agency comes from. Meanwhile, research that defines the power of subnational units in terms of their formal administrative authority, fiscal capacity, and political status does not fully explain how these structural endowments translate into effective agency. This article works toward a conception of subnational government capacity better able to integrate these approaches and bridge the agency-structure divide. I call for greater attention to the connective structures that enable subnational governments to take the initiative in policymaking and mobilize resources, stressing provinces’ internal cohesion and upward political ties. To illustrate the need for a broader conception of subnational capacity, and to show the importance of connective power in action, I analyze the contrasting outcomes of regional development strategies in two Chinese provinces. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 633-653 Issue: 4 Volume: 1 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1243377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2016.1243377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:1:y:2016:i:4:p:633-653 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1922199_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xinrong Ma Author-X-Name-First: Xinrong Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Mobility and immobility: the fluctuation of citizenship of resettled Vietnamese refugees in China Abstract: Contradicting the existing refugee studies literature criticizing China’s passive engagement in international refugee protection, China accepted as many as 300,000 Vietnamese refugees (难侨) of Chinese descent in the wake of the Vietnam War and resettled them on state-owned farms in southern China. By focusing on Vietnamese refugees on a state-owned farm on the Leizhou Peninsula, South China, this study examines the (im)mobility experience of resettled Vietnamese refugees in China, through which the fluctuation of citizenship is reflected. This paper brings the ignored dimension of the state into the analysis of (im)mobility. While showing how the resettlement regime shapes the mobility and immobility experience of Vietnamese refugees in China, this study demonstrates their agency in relation to the desire for four statuses of mobility and immobility. Meanwhile, this paper demonstrates the fluctuation of citizenship of the group of resettled Vietnamese refugees over the past four decades. In doing so, it expands the scope of existing literature on migration and refugee studies to an understudied country of destination, China, and helps us better understand the complexity of refugees’ experiences within broader socio-economic and politico-institutional changes. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 489-509 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1922199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1922199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:489-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1956174_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yihan Xiong Author-X-Name-First: Yihan Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong Author-Name: Miao Li Author-X-Name-First: Miao Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Industrial ecology and local citizenship of migrant children in urban China Abstract: The discrepancies in the implementation and enactment of policies on migrant children’s education in China’s largest city centers (i.e. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) have received increasing attention. Drawing upon data from a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted in Shanghai and policy documents issued by other city centers, we propose the concept of industrial ecology to explicate the divergent trajectories of municipal-level education policies and regulations on the systematic relocation of migrant children to local public schools. We maintain that the industrial ecology of host cities resembling either a pipeline-shaped network of companies or a root-like network of companies has a decisive impact on the inclusiveness of city-level policies. In addition, by ‘voting with their feet’ migrants relocate to other cities to acquire their fundamental citizenship rights. Therefore, China’s largest city centers implement different policies to integrate migrant children into the public education system because of the interplay between the mechanism of competition between the host city and adjacent cities for retaining the workforce and the ‘voting with their feet’ mechanism of migrants. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 466-488 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1956174 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1956174 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:466-488 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1974221_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bingsheng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Bingsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Jingjing Xiao Author-X-Name-First: Jingjing Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao Author-Name: Ling Li Author-X-Name-First: Ling Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Guangdong Wu Author-X-Name-First: Guangdong Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Do citizen participation programs help citizens feel satisfied with urban redevelopment policy in China? Abstract: Debates on urban redevelopment policy have emerged and been evolving in China, raising theoretical and practical concerns. Prior researchers have realized that the proactive behavior of government officials can influence satisfaction in urban redevelopment policymaking. However, the internal mechanism is still unclear. Employing the policy implementation process theory, this paper develops a theoretical model to explore how the proactive behavior of government officials affects citizen satisfaction. An analysis of a survey of Chinese citizens participating in public affairs shows that the government officials’ proactive behavior matters for citizen satisfaction by promoting proactive participation and dampening passive participation. The results also highlight the moderating role of public trust and government officials’ responsiveness in the relationship between citizen behavior and satisfaction. Based on our findings, practical interventions aiming at improving participation and citizen satisfaction should be taking active and affirmative measures from regulation to interaction, improve the public trust and establish timely and effective response mechanisms. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 341-371 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1974221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1974221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:341-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1933809_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Youlang Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Youlang Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Xufeng Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Xufeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Title: Social ties and citizen-initiated contacts: the case of china’s local one-stop governments Abstract: Citizen-initiated contacts with the government considerably influence the outcomes of public management. Nevertheless, the following question remains inadequately explored and explained: Why are some citizens more likely to initiate contact with the government than others? This study examines how two distinct types of social ties, namely, daily and political ties, influence citizen contacting. We point out that daily and political ties can generally help reduce the information constraints involved in citizen contacting. Particularly, political ties may also increase citizens’ civic skills and capability to punish unresponsive government officials. We use original data from a nationally representative survey conducted in China in 2015 to verify our expectations. We find that citizens with strong political ties are significantly likely to initiate contact with local one-stop governments. Although consistently positive, the effects of daily ties are not statistically significant and tend to be smaller than the effects of political ties. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 418-437 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1933809 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1933809 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:418-437 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1846294_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fan Yang Author-X-Name-First: Fan Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Zhihan Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Zhihan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Shizong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Shizong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Enlisting citizens: forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China Abstract: This article examines how the Chinese government increases the effectiveness of policy implementation by resorting to citizen participation. Based on an in-depth case study of the waste classification policy implementation in county T, province Z, this article demonstrates three citizen-enlistment strategies applied in the local state: (1) local-elites enlistment, (2) social norms innovation, and (3) blurring the role boundaries between citizens and frontline bureaucrats. This article also illustrates the citizen-enlistment motivations of governments: (1) to increase the dynamic and controllable working staff in policy implementation, (2) to maintain a flexible social control system to reduce accountability pressure, and (3) to overcome information asymmetry by holding citizens responsible for their suggestions and claims. In general, the citizen-enlistment strategies, to some extent, facilitate the effectiveness of policy implementation in the local state. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 400-417 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1846294 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1846294 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:400-417 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1830569_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chong Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Chong Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Liao Liao Author-X-Name-First: Liao Author-X-Name-Last: Liao Title: The active participation in a community transformation project in China: constructing new forums for expert-citizen interaction Abstract: The call for citizen participation is a prominent theme in academic, public, and political discussions. Taking the S Village transformation project in Guangzhou City as a case study, this article examines how urban planners, as experts, contributed to improving citizen participation in local community planning. The planners constructed forums for expert-citizen interaction in which they provided residents with professional knowledge, performed multiple roles as both experts and communicators, and promoted capacity building; citizens were largely mobilized to perform active participation in this transformation project. The findings show that planners reframed the transformation plan based on villagers’ community identity towards the village history, which played an important role in reaching a mutual agreement regarding community development. The article echoes the argument that such professional groups have, as planners, emerged as mediators linking the government and citizens in Chinese community governance and discovers their role as an engine for promoting villagers’ innovation and self-development capacity. However, the study reveals that experts’ role in supporting citizens’ participation is restricted due to such factors as a lack of institutional support and high operating costs. More research needs to be done to explore how experts could better facilitate civic participation in different contexts. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 372-399 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1830569 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1830569 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:372-399 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1957606_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Baogang He Author-X-Name-First: Baogang Author-X-Name-Last: He Title: Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China: the deliberative polling experiment in a private firm Abstract: A variety of forms and practices of citizenship in China has been well studied, but, unfortunately, studies on industrial citizenship are missing. Moreover, while there has been a growing literature on Chinese workers and their relationship with management in the last decade or so, most of it has focussed on protest and litigation rather than on deliberation and industrial citizenship. This paper fills the intellectual gap by applying T. H. Marshall’s idea of industrial citizenship to workplaces in China and examining it through a case study of a workplace deliberation experiment. The workplace deliberation experiment showed that, first, workplace deliberation in China can be seen as a form of industrial citizenship and “participatory management”, which still retains an element of hierarchy, but falls short of the radical idea of industrial democracy and unionism. Second, workplace deliberation improved management practices but still faced significant obstacles, such as asymmetric power relationships and the control characteristics of industrial relations. Though Chinese industries are institutionalizing more workers’ voice input, Beijing nevertheless forestalls the Polish style of an independent trade union, thus workplace deliberation can be seen as a part of its authoritarian empowerment strategy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 438-465 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1957606 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1957606 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:438-465 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1487738_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna L. Ahlers Author-X-Name-First: Anna L. Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlers Title: Introduction: Chinese governance in the era of ‘top-level design’1 Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 263-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1487738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1487738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:263-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1488495_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vivienne Shue Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne Author-X-Name-Last: Shue Title: Party-state, nation, empire: rethinking the grammar of Chinese Governance Abstract: Western political scientists, regarding China as a nation-state like any other, commonly classify it as a ‘party-state’ and as ‘authoritarian’. Yet China’s transition to modern statehood differed from that of almost every other postimperial or ‘new’ nation on the planet. Drawing on new scholarship in the history of empire and of modern China, this essay reflects on certain repercussions of the Sinic world’s singular experience of empire, imperial breakdown, and passage to political modernity. What light, we ask, can reexamining China’s oddly intact transfiguration—from dynastic empire to people’s republic—shed on how the Party has governed since 1949? With a view to tailoring an altered research agenda for political scientists today—one better fitted to grasping what Chinese authorities may mean when they refer to building ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era’—we consider, in particular, several techniques of governance associated with empire relating to scale and strategy, to hierarchy and differentiation. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 268-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1488495 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1488495 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:268-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1493023_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xuelian Chen Author-X-Name-First: Xuelian Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: Remaking the loyal cadres: the Ideological Responsibility System in China’s new era Abstract: There have been noteworthy changes in the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party assess, use, and manage its cadres under different historical conditions. Such changes are associated with the varying agendas for ruling China under the administrations headed by Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping, respectively. This paper systematically examines pertinent official documents from the past four decades to reveal the role played by ideology in the CCP’s cadre selection and management mechanism, as well as the resulting incentives and pressures for the Chinese cadres. Findings show that the reinforcing of political correctness through the finely designed Ideological Responsibility System (yisixingtai zerenzhi) effectively increases the cadres’ loyalty to the central authority. However, there are also unintended and possibly negative implications with regard to some of the related changes. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 292-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1493023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1493023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:292-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1490102_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Neil Munro Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Munro Title: ‘Market justice’ in China and Russia Abstract: Market justice is an important concept in neoliberal discourses legitimating unequal distribution of welfare within societies. This article explores the question of how useful it is for understanding distributive justice attitudes in Russia and China. It is based on a comparative literature review and an analysis of focus group discussions carried out in most provincial cities in both countries in 2012 and 2013. The literature review shows that Russia is closer to a neoliberal state. China, by contrast, has never followed neoliberal prescriptions, either ideologically or as a matter of practical policy, pursuing instead the goal of a ‘socialist market economy’. The focus group discussions show that Chinese tend to view responsibility for welfare as shared between the state and individuals, whereas Russians, depending on their ideology, tend to view welfare as the exclusive responsibility of either the state or the individual. Russians are also more cynical about the way their economy works, suggesting their support for individual responsibility may sometimes shade into social Darwinism. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 307-330 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1490102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1490102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:307-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1491112_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edward Gu Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Gu Author-Name: Imogen Page-Jarrett Author-X-Name-First: Imogen Author-X-Name-Last: Page-Jarrett Title: The top-level design of social health insurance reforms in China: towards universal coverage, improved benefit design, and smart payment methods Abstract: Health insurance was prioritized as one of the four key areas for reform in China’s Health Care Reform Plan released in April 2009. The Plan aimed to expand coverage, enhance security, and improve payment methods, but implementation was sluggish. In 2011, the government announced that social health insurance (SHI) schemes had reached a coverage rate of 95%, but official statistics did not match the claim. Universal coverage is still an unfinished mission, while inadequate financing and benefit design remain major challenges. Despite a substantial increase in government funding over the past decade, SHI schemes have so far never accounted for more than 54% of national health care expenditure. Surplus has also become a serious policy issue for SIH funds. Finally, payment methods still require further reform and improvement. Traditional fee-for-service payments prevail in many localities, and new payment methods, such as capitation, global budgets, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), per diem payments, and mixed payments, are only in the stage of experimentation. The health care delivery system still lacks sufficient governance structure and incentives. Health insurance reform is an important part of welfare-state building, and China still has a long path ahead before it reaches its goals in this respect. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 331-350 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1491112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1491112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:331-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1486347_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yongdong Shen Author-X-Name-First: Yongdong Author-X-Name-Last: Shen Author-Name: Anna Lisa Ahlers Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Lisa Ahlers Title: Local environmental governance innovation in China: staging ‘triangular dialogues’ for industrial air pollution control Abstract: Studies of environmental governance in China mainly discuss bilateral encounters, such as popular protests against polluting companies, NGO collaboration with local authorities, or local government collusion with enterprises which can lead to the sabotage of effective pollfution controls. This article studies a case in which a communication mechanism involving multiple actors created a basis for the innovative and successful enforcement of air pollution regulation. Pressurized by popular protests and superior level policy mandates, the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) in Hangzhou City started to employ a dialogue forum which ultimately brought residents, enterprises as well as government agencies together to implement local air pollution control measures. Through information-sharing, interest mediation and trust building in a gradually more horizontal process, the government-led multiple stakeholders’ dialogue helped to overcome the agency’s structural weakness, regulate the polluting companies and address residents’ complaints. We conclude that this case study can provide some insights into the ways in which opportunities for driving forward innovative and effective environmental governance strategies at the local level emerged against the background of recently enforced top-level environmental protection policies in China. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 351-369 Issue: 3 Volume: 3 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1486347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2018.1486347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:3:y:2018:i:3:p:351-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2105083_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Suping Lou Author-X-Name-First: Suping Author-X-Name-Last: Lou Author-Name: Zongfeng Sun Author-X-Name-First: Zongfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Author-Name: Yushan Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Yushan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: To join the top and the bottom: the role of provincial governments in China's top-down policy diffusion Abstract: The provincial governments in China and their impact on the policy adoption of county-level administrations remain understudied. This article contributes to the study of policy adoption by dividing the roles enacted by provincial governments into the four following types: subcontractor, pressure-giver, designer, and co-provider. It utilizes the event history analysis method to examine the effects of the four aforementioned roles on policy adoption by county-level governments on the Old Age Allowance Policy (OAAP). The results suggest that provinces playing the roles of designer, co-provider, and pressure-giver exert a significantly more positive impact on the acceptance of the OAAP by their county-level administrations than provinces performing as subcontractors. Meanwhile, the subcontractor-then-designer role exerts a negative influence on the espousal of the OAAP by county-level governments. These findings deliver a new theoretical account of the vertical approach to policy diffusion and offer substantive practical implications for social policy applications in hierarchical societies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 161-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2105083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2105083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:161-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2147716_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xiaoyu Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoyu Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Abraham Y. Nahm Author-X-Name-First: Abraham Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Nahm Title: The government-business relations: how Chinese business leaders take part in government policy formulation in the National People’s Congress Abstract: To better understand the government-business relations and the governance in China, this study investigates the effects of Chinese business leaders’ membership in the National People’s Congress (NPC) on government subsidy, firm’s strategic change, and labor inefficiency. Our sample consists of 959 firms with business leaders in the 10th and 11th NPC, which account for 88% of the total firms that have business leaders in the NPC. To make a valid comparison, we used various criteria to create a matching sample of 44,894 firms that have no business leaders in the NPC. The results suggest that NPC membership has a positive effect on government subsidy, and negative effects on firm’s strategic change and labor inefficiency. After conducting a post-hoc analysis, we found interesting interaction effects of NPC membership and firm ownership upon firm’s strategic change and labor inefficiency. State-owned firms had stronger negative relationships between NPC membership and strategic change, and between NPC membership and labor inefficiency. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 256-282 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2147716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2147716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:256-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2131977_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Biao Huang Author-X-Name-First: Biao Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Li Ye Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Ye Author-Name: Jiebing Wu Author-X-Name-First: Jiebing Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China Abstract: How local governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has received much scholarly attention. The existing literature mainly focuses on epidemic prevention, while the contradictory policy goals of pandemic control and economic recovery are less investigated. How do local governments respond to such tasks with tension? This article approaches the question by analysing the policy divergence between central and local governments under the influence of the conflicting goals. Utilising an original dataset of policy divergence in work and production resumption policies between central and 244 municipal governments in China, this study finds that pandemic control is the priority of local governments, and the rationality-based logic rather than the capacity-based logic is followed by local leaders when formulating policy responses. The results extend the theoretical understanding of local governments’ policy response under pandemic conditions and provide a theoretical basis for better management of the pandemic in practice. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 283-301 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2131977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2131977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:283-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2131988_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ruoxuan Liu Author-X-Name-First: Ruoxuan Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Bo Fan Author-X-Name-First: Bo Author-X-Name-Last: Fan Title: Roles of institutions and dynamic capability in the relationship between collaboration and performance in emergency management: evidence from 110 cases in Shanghai Abstract: The existing research identifies that cross-organizational collaboration is important in the enhancement of emergency management. However, little effort has been made to empirically examine how collaboration contributes to emergency performance. Within this field lies a theoretical controversy that institutional arrangement and dynamic capability compete with each other to enhance emergency collaboration. Numerous studies find that a contingency plan, as a form of institutional arrangement, is necessary for ensuring collaboration in a planned and legitimate manner. Conversely, research also suggests that absorptive capacity, as an important dynamic capability for organizations to adapt to changing environments, is beneficial to the improvement of emergency collaboration. The current study contributes to the understanding of the influence of collaboration on emergency performance by (1) investigating the relationship between collaboration networks and performance, and (2) examining the mediating roles of the contingency plan and absorptive capacity in this relationship. Employing structural equation modeling with data from 110 cases of emergency drills in Shanghai, results suggest that collaboration networks have a positive association with emergency performance, which is simultaneously mediated by contingency plan and absorptive capacity, and further demonstrate that absorptive capacity exerts a stronger effect than contingency plan. Overall, the findings point to a need to dissolve the nuanced contradiction between the institutions and dynamic capability and weigh the two approaches when implementing emergency collaboration across organizations. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 206-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2131988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2131988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:206-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2134625_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yu Wang Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Dong Li Author-X-Name-First: Dong Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Jiehong Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Jiehong Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: Interregional collaboration for food safety governance: the scheme design and performance evaluation with cases in China Abstract: The spatial spillover of food safety risks and the regional mobility of food enterprises make territorial governance inefficient, which calls for interregional collaboration to enhance food safety in the context of territorial governance. However, due to the lack of a collaborative food safety governance scheme, there has been no substantial progress in interregional collaboration for food safety governance in China. Therefore, this paper refines the three key elements of collaboration from the perspective of supply chain, economy and geography and puts forward the optimal zoning scheme of interregional collaboration for food safety governance. By analysing the evolution trend of interregional collaboration, we found China has already produced the germination of interregional collaboration in terms of food safety issues, though it has been slow and volatile. To promote the process of interregional collaboration, this paper also analyses the determinants of the coordinated regulatory performance of food safety. The results show that collaborative actions within regions can facilitate coordinated regulatory practice. The interregional difference in regulatory intensity and consumption patterns hinder the interregional collaboration for food safety governance, while the interregional difference in industrial structure inversely promotes the coordinated regulatory performance. These findings lend support to effective promotion of interregional collaboration. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 234-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2134625 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2134625 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:234-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2131993_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jian Yan Author-X-Name-First: Jian Author-X-Name-Last: Yan Author-Name: Xuedong Yang Author-X-Name-First: Xuedong Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Title: ‘Old brooms can still sweep’: the logic of furthering CPC’s centralized system Abstract: This article puts the power centralization drive of the CPC since 2012 into perspective by going back to the Party’s history. By employing the retrospective governance studies approach, it singles out three cases in the CPC’s history in which top Party leaders chose to reinforce the CPC’s centralized system even when the Party had made strides in the previous stage, including creating the Instruction Request and Work Report System in 1948, adjusting Party-government Relations in 1953 and prioritizing top-level design since the 18th Party Congress in 2012. Based on a detailed analysis and comparison of the background, process and repercussions of furthering the CPC’s centralized system in the three cases, this article concludes that top Party leaders chose to further strengthen the CPC’s centralized system even when the Party was making strides in its cause primarily because of their concerns about the negative influences, real or imaginary, of the changing environment on the organizational integrity of the Party. By demonstrating the significance of CPC’s Leninist heritage in enabling its resilience, the present analysis broadens the scope of authoritarian resilience studies. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 180-205 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2131993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2022.2131993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:180-205 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1944555_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yingyan Liu Author-X-Name-First: Yingyan Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Zaisheng Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Zaisheng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Huadun Chen Author-X-Name-First: Huadun Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Heng Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Heng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Measuring the political cost of environmental problems (PCEP): a scale development and validation Abstract: With the improvement of people’s living standards and the awakening of environmental rights awareness, pollution and mass environmental incidents have become the focus of public attention. Using grounded theory analysis in qualitative research and multivariate statistical technology in quantitative research, taking residents and public officials of Shijiazhuang, Tangshan and Heng Shui as the research objects, Study 1 has defined the concept of the political cost of environmental problems (PCEP) and has constructed the PCEP scale by using the methods of interview and questionnaire survey, which provided sufficient theoretical explanation and empirical support for the research on the political cost of environmental problems. Study 2 has explored the relationship between PCEP and the environment-friendly behaviors, verified the applicability of the scale, and found the institutional PCEP, the organizational PCEP, the social PCEP, and the mass basic PCEP all have a positive impact on environment-friendly behaviors. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 303-321 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1944555 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1944555 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:303-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1965789_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xu Wu Author-X-Name-First: Xu Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Author-Name: Tomás Marín Del Valle Author-X-Name-First: Tomás Author-X-Name-Last: Marín Del Valle Author-Name: Liange Zheng Author-X-Name-First: Liange Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng Author-Name: Yan Shi Author-X-Name-First: Yan Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Author-Name: Yuanyuan Du Author-X-Name-First: Yuanyuan Author-X-Name-Last: Du Author-Name: Weidong Luo Author-X-Name-First: Weidong Author-X-Name-Last: Luo Title: Temporal changes in sectoral carbon productivity and corresponding driving factors: implications for carbon governance in Zhejiang province Abstract: Effective regulations of carbon productivity (CP) at the sectoral level offer a practical path to implement cost-effective CO2 reduction measures. To date, few studies on the temporal changes in sectoral CP have identified driving factors that can be regulated through policy interventions. We took Zhejiang Province (P.R. China) as a case study to assess the changes in CP of 41 economic sectors covering primary, secondary and tertiary industries during 2010–2017 and analyze the underlying driving factors of these changes. During the period, 31 sectors increased their CP, 12 of which decreased in energy-related CO2 emissions and increased in economic values and were potentially usable in ‘carbon peaking and carbon neutrality’ pilots. Meanwhile, 10 sectors reduced their CP, which had priority in the promotion of low-carbon technologies and implementation of transformative policies. We identified that the major contributors to the changes of sectoral CP are the factors involving electricity consumption, projects completed and put into use, water use efficiency, foreign investment and floor space of buildings. Our findings recommended improvement in the infrastructures and institutions of electricity consumption, the efficiency of the procedures for project approval, the utilization of water resources and the low-carbon investment in fixed assets on sectoral level. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 322-348 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1965789 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1965789 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:322-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1883289_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xinhao Lin Author-X-Name-First: Xinhao Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Wei Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Name: Hong Mi Author-X-Name-First: Hong Author-X-Name-Last: Mi Title: Estimation on Chinese families who lost their only child and the fiscal sustainability of the social assistance system Abstract: China implemented a universal two-child policy in 2016. But its earlier one-child policy resulted in a large population of one-child parents who face miserable later lives if their only-child passes away before them. China’s Current social assistance to such Shidu families is not supportive enough and provides insufficient coverage. Using demographic methods, this paper estimates both the mortality of only-children and the population of Shidu parents over 49 years-old. Furthermore, it advocates for improvements to the standard of social assistance for Shidu families and measures the financial sustainability of that suggested standard. After analyzing Chinese national census data and China Fertility Status Survey data, we found that the risk of death for a rural only-child was higher than for an urban only-child in every age group. Following the concept of period parity progression, we estimated the scale of Shidu parents, which will gradually increase to a peak of 1.05 million in 2030. Considering present policies and the Shidu parents’ unmet needs, we argue that China’s central government should increase its economic support of such families, include those support policies in a comprehensive social security system, and offer more emotional care. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 418-432 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1883289 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1883289 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:418-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1971419_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Duofen Chang Author-X-Name-First: Duofen Author-X-Name-Last: Chang Author-Name: Changsheng Meng Author-X-Name-First: Changsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Meng Title: An empirical study on collaborative grassland governance in Inner Mongolia, China Abstract: Collaborative governance is a promising pattern for grassland governance because the failure of single-subject governance has gradually increased in recent years. To conduct better collaborative governance, it is necessary to specify the roles of the factors that influence grassland collaborative governance. However, there are still few studies that focus on the influencing mechanisms for grassland collaborative governance. To systematically explore the influencing mechanisms, a case study was conducted in 4 banners and counties of Inner Mongolia based on questionnaire surveys and the structural equation model (SEM). The results show that the following three factors all have a positive influence on the collaboration degree (CD): the participation degree of collaborative participants (PDCP), the effectiveness of collaborative leadership (ECL) and the trust degree (TD), and their effects vary. Additionally, TD has a positive mediation effect on the influential paths of PDCP to CD and ECL to CD. Moreover, multigroup analysis shows that both gender and income have significant moderating effects. These findings not only offer a theoretical foundation for the further exploration of the mechanism of collaborative governance but also provide a practical reference for the implementation of collaborative governance in grassland governance and other fields in China and other regions of the world. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 349-372 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1971419 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1971419 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:349-372 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1783824_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shuqin Xu Author-X-Name-First: Shuqin Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Author-Name: Zhonghua Guo Author-X-Name-First: Zhonghua Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Title: Middle leaders’ triple logics for leading school-organized extra-curriculum activities: evidence from Shanghai’s junior secondary schools Abstract: With reference to the heads of departments of moral education (HDMEs) in Shanghai’s junior secondary schools, this paper explores middle leaders’ logics for leading school-organized extra-curricular activities (SEAs). This qualitative study, guided by Woulfin’s lived logic framework, found that the interviewed HDMEs actively reinterpreted the institutional logics with three logics—expressive, instrumental, and hierarchical—by manipulating policy circulation, responding to the performative accountability and micropolitics in the hierarchy, and using correlative thinking. The lived logics of leading SEAs reveal that, as heads of a marginalized department in schools, the HDMEs struggled to seek visibility by using correlative thinking, promoting the importance of their work, and aligning with more helpful senior leaders. The study responds to theories on school middle leadership and implementation logic. It could deepen our understanding of the paradoxes in China’s development and governance, especially in areas concerning both measurable performance and unmeasurable issues (e.g. ideology and sustainable development). Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 399-417 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1783824 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2020.1783824 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:399-417 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_1908733_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Qiushi Wang Author-X-Name-First: Qiushi Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Zongfeng Sun Author-X-Name-First: Zongfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Sun Title: Geographic location, development of higher education and donations to Chinese non-public foundations Abstract: In recent years, Chinese non-public foundations have grown at an unprecedented rate, but research on charitable donations to these organizations is scarce. Building on nonprofit literature and borrowing from resource dependence, neo-institutionalism and interdependence theories, we seek to disentangle the distinctive donation pattern in Chinese non-public foundations by focusing on geographic location and higher education. To test the hypotheses, we performed Tobit and IV-Tobit regression analyses on data collected from 1,490 Chinese non-public foundations for 2013. We found that those foundations located near the center of provincial capitals received significantly more domestic donations. The development of higher education institutions located in the same area as the foundation also had a positive impact on donations. The findings of this research improve our understanding about the distinctive donation patterns during a period of fast economic transition and suggest useful ways for increasing the revenues of Chinese non-public foundations. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 373-398 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1908733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2021.1908733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:3:p:373-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2213540_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shiyi Chen Author-X-Name-First: Shiyi Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Chang Wang Author-X-Name-First: Chang Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yue Guo Author-X-Name-First: Yue Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Author-Name: Yu Yang Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Author-Name: Mathieu Blondeel Author-X-Name-First: Mathieu Author-X-Name-Last: Blondeel Title: International and domestic leadership for fulfilling carbon neutrality in emerging economies: comparative evidence from China and India Abstract: The socioeconomic impacts of potential climate policies are unevenly distributed across the globe, and different countries take different leading positions in fulfilling carbon neutrality. We select two top-emitting emerging economies, China and India, as our case studies. Considering structural, entrepreneurial, ideational, and exemplary leadership based on the leadership theory, we analyze the two countries’ international and domestic positions in climate change mitigation after each became active climate action taker (i.e. during 2008–2021). We further rely on interest-based and norm-based approaches to explore the driving factors of their leading positions. We conclude that although China is generally more inclined to take the leading position, China and India currently both exert substantive leadership, especially prevalent in recent international climate negotiation rounds. China and India’s consistency of international and domestic leadership evolves via different paths. China initially focused more on international rather than domestic leadership positions (symbolic leader), while India initially took the opposite approach (pioneer). An alignment between international and domestic leadership is found in both countries in more recent years, making both countries substantive leaders. Compared with the interest-based approach, the norm-based approach has greater explanatory power for the two countries’ leading position. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 533-562 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2213540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2213540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:533-562 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2231199_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Joel S. Migdal Author-X-Name-First: Joel S. Author-X-Name-Last: Migdal Title: Beyond state law: everyday rules and the fragile public Abstract: In modern urban life, people encounter strangers at every turn. How do they negotiate being thrown together into a society of strangers—to be among people they do not know and with whose cultures they are unfamiliar? Widespread acceptance of informal rules of daily behavior enables the acceptance of others—of strangers—as partners in everyday social and economic transactions. The term ‘public’ denotes a collective of people, linked loosely through acceptance of the primacy of these informal rules, shared concern for the general welfare, and a sense of which others are rightful members of this collective (and which not). Any public set of rules apportions respect in a society. It lays out who defers to whom, creating tensions between those respected and those not, between those included in the public and those excluded. In the United States in the period after World War II, a series of economic and social changes brought those tensions to a head and subverted the unity of the public. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 452-472 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2231199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2231199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:452-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2214023_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yu Zheng Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng Author-Name: Bing Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Bing Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Does china’s national carbon market function well? A perspective on effective market design Abstract: The emissions trading scheme (ETS) has piqued substantial interest among economists and policymakers. China officially launched the electricity sector’s national carbon emissions trading market in 2021, making it the world’s largest compliance carbon market. In contrast to the cap-and-trade (C&T) system prevalent in other economies, China’s national carbon market employs a rate-based mechanism that implicitly subsidizes the output of regulated entities; however, is it effective? This study uses a market-design theoretical framework to explore whether China’s national carbon market functions effectively and, more critically, what leads to its (slight) underperformance. We discover that policy design, policy conflicts, policy uncertainty, inexperienced market regulation, and excessive or inappropriate government intervention are the primary constraints on this emerging market, resulting in shrinking market thickness, congested market transactions, and lack of safety. For China to establish a better national carbon market, stronger market-oriented rules, appropriate market regulation, improved policy coordination, and greater electricity market reforms are required. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 563-592 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2214023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2214023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:563-592 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2166568_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bingsheng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Bingsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Siqi He Author-X-Name-First: Siqi Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Sen Lin Author-X-Name-First: Sen Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Jinfeng Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Jinfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: Bin Xue Author-X-Name-First: Bin Author-X-Name-Last: Xue Title: How usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance: evidence from a survey experiment Abstract: Although policy transparency is praised highly to promote citizen compliance, it sometimes loses its effect in practice due to the lack of scientific design. To better exploit policy transparency, this study examined how the usability of policy transparency promotes citizen compliance, and the role of perceived benefit and descriptive social norms in this mechanism. The results of an online survey experiment conducted in the urban renewal policy domain revealed that, in the implementation of the house expropriation policy, easy-to-understand policy transparency encourages citizen compliance better, since it promotes more perceived benefits. Furthermore, descriptive social norms were found to influence the way perceived benefits promote citizen compliance; more in detail, negative norms were found to increase, and positive norms to decrease, the role of perceived benefit, eventually influencing the effectiveness of policy transparency. This research is a breakthrough for the effectiveness of policy transparency, emphasizing the role of perceived benefit and descriptive social norms in policy compliance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 473-497 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2166568 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2166568 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:473-497 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2170605_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hongyun Han Author-X-Name-First: Hongyun Author-X-Name-Last: Han Author-Name: Jiaxie Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jiaxie Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Performance management and environmental governance in China Abstract: The national environmental quality has maintained a momentum of improvement, while the tension between the performance evaluation system and local officials’ behavior has been a significant concern. Based on panel data from 224 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2018, this paper examined the impact of the characteristics of officials on environmental pollution governance using a fixed-effect model. The empirical results demonstrate an incentive for officials to reduce pollution emissions and improve environmental protection when their native place coincides with the province where they work. The reverse incentive occurs when their native place coincides with the prefecture-level city where they work. Given the fact that eco-policy is the transmission mechanism, a more reasonable assessment system should pay more attention to officials’ characteristics, such as younger female officials are more likely to implement environmental policies, party school education may not be helpful for pollution governance, education level, professional background and working experience has little correlation with environment. Besides, a significant mediating effect shows that officials with hometown identity are encouraged to do more in environmental protection. An official incentive framework on ‘working effort’ should be employed to enhance the effectiveness of environmental governance. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 498-532 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2170605 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2170605 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:498-532 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2247198_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David H. Rosenbloom Author-X-Name-First: David H. Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenbloom Title: Administrative states as moral hazards: four dimensions Abstract: This article explores four fundamental dimensions of how administrative states present moral hazards that reach deeply into the distortion of governmental structures, institutions and processes. These dimensions are (1) the undermining of governmental structural integrity, (2) displacement of political and regime values, (3) the promotion of amoral administrative thought, and (4) bureaucratic dysfunction and ossification. Although these dimensions are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive, they are substantial and have been under appreciated and analyzed in public administration’s academic literature. The article concludes with five strategies for reducing such moral hazards. Although I illustrate with the United States, the moral hazards considered are not confined to it and are a feature of administrative states generally. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 433-451 Issue: 4 Volume: 8 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2247198 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2247198 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:8:y:2023:i:4:p:433-451 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2238329_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Huifeng Li Author-X-Name-First: Huifeng Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Ceren Ergenc Author-X-Name-First: Ceren Author-X-Name-Last: Ergenc Title: Party-led public participation in neighborhood governance: a comparative analysis of two forms of social networks Abstract: Neighborhood governance has been the center of attention in urban politics and public policy for many decades. Although wide-ranging literature explores the favorable effects of public participation on neighborhood governance, it is only relatively recently that attention has been directed to the manner in which effective participation develops and the consequent implications for participatory democracy. This article examines how local states encourage public participation in neighborhood governance using social networks in contemporary China. Based on a case study of the Minor Facts program, our findings demonstrate that even when participation mechanisms are introduced by the Party, horizontal networks also play a role in participation. Moreover, we present two forms of social networks and their mechanisms to illustrate how local states strategically mobilize them. These social networks also increase the social status and moral authority of Party members and political elites in ways they find useful for strengthening local government capacity to ensure political compliance. This article provides an important qualitative insight into network-related activators of participatory behaviors in the community. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 130-152 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2238329 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2238329 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:130-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2300181_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Pei Zhong Author-X-Name-First: Pei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhong Author-Name: Yu Zeng Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Zeng Title: Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China Abstract: Does top-down accountability spur bureaucrats to improve service provision? This paper highlights the potential drawbacks of top-down accountability for building a responsive bureaucracy. Based on an online survey experiment involving 923 bureaucrats in China, we find that bureaucrats are less responsive to citizens’ needs when they are exposed to the risk of being sanctioned and the recent remedial policy of principled tolerance cannot offset such effects. In contrast to scholars arguing that increased top-down accountability pressure improves government responsiveness, these findings imply that insulating bureaucracy allows them to do their jobs more responsively. The findings enhance our understanding of accountability and responsiveness in China and beyond. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 1-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2300181 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2300181 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:1-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2191413_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Bingsheng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Bingsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Sen Lin Author-X-Name-First: Sen Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Xiaohao Yuan Author-X-Name-First: Xiaohao Author-X-Name-Last: Yuan Author-Name: Siqi He Author-X-Name-First: Siqi Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Jinfeng Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Jinfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Nudge citizen participation by framing mobilization information: a survey experiment in China Abstract: Despite many efforts to promote citizen participation, it is necessary to keep exploring more efficient mobilization ways in developing countries. From the bounded rationality perspective, the authors conducted a survey experiment in China to explore the effects of a public–personal interest frame and a gain–loss frame on citizen participation. The results revealed that emphasizing public interests attracted more citizen participation than emphasizing personal interests did, and citizens were more mobilized by losing benefits due to non-participation than they were by gaining benefits due to participation. Moreover, the public–personal frame interacted with the gain–loss frame to influence citizen participation. Specifically, people were more likely mobilized to participate by public interests than by personal interests in a gain frame but not in a loss frame. These findings contribute to the understanding of bounded rationality in citizen participation and indicate the potential of framing effect to nudge citizen participation. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 78-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2191413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2191413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:78-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2300179_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Yi Ma Author-X-Name-First: Yi Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform Abstract: The conceptualization of policy change has been much discussed in democratic countries with a focus on formal legislation. However, in non-Western contexts, policies change in both formal and informal ways, and these informal mechanisms are challenging to observe. To fill this gap, this article uses the case of China’s policy process, where soft law policies play an increasingly important role in driving policy change. Drawing inspiration from legalization theory in international law, the article creates a novel typology of soft law policies based on dimensions of obligation and enforcement. Next, it compiles and analyzes a unique dataset of soft law policies from the central, provincial, and prefectural governments during the process of Household Registration (Hukou) System reform from 2011 to 2021. The results show that when the central government strengthens the obligation or enforcement dimension of the Hukou reform policy, then provincial and prefectural governments largely follow this policy change. Still, significant variations exist across provinces and prefectures in how they adapt to central policies. The findings highlight the potential of the typology of soft law policies to generate new insights into policy changes across China’s multi-level governance system. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 23-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2300179 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2300179 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:23-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2166561_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Zhonghua Guo Author-X-Name-First: Zhonghua Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Author-Name: Zhuozhao Tao Author-X-Name-First: Zhuozhao Author-X-Name-Last: Tao Title: The boundary setting of Chinese netizens’ citizenship identity: social media responses to the Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners Abstract: Since Reform and Opening Up, the Chinese government has been under pressure regarding policy on the residence of foreign migrants to the country. In response, the Chinese government released a document entitled the Regulations of the PRC on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners in February 2020, which has roused fierce social opposition, as reflected in Chinese netizens’ attitudes towards foreign immigrants and citizenship identity. Based on online discussions in the Zhihu community, in this paper, we investigated the exclusive and inclusive boundaries of Chinese netizens’ citizenship identity through quantitative and thematic textual analyses. The exclusive boundary includes racial and historical discourses that raise insurmountable walls between Chinese people and foreign immigrants, while the inclusive boundary is reflected in citizenship rights and access criteria. The issues of ‘super-national treatment’ (privileges enjoyed by foreign nationals with permanent Chinese residency) and ‘low access criteria’ (the relative ease with which foreign immigrants can obtain permanent residence in China) for foreign immigrants have weakened the openness of the inclusive boundary, causing netizens who were once willing to accept foreign immigrants to oppose the presence of non-native groups in the country. This study deepens our understanding of Chinese netizens’ citizenship identity and contributes to citizenship identity theory. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 104-129 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2166561 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2166561 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:104-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2298012_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Xiaoxia Zang Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoxia Author-X-Name-Last: Zang Author-Name: Sujian Guo Author-X-Name-First: Sujian Author-X-Name-Last: Guo Title: Influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment from the perspective of spatial politics: empirical study based on NCA and fsQCA Abstract: In the ‘environmental era,’ the ubiquitous spatial conflicts in the urban environment have become a typical dilemma hindering sustainable urban development and inhibiting local governance. Based on the theory of spatial politics, with the use of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), this article analyzes empirically 40 typical cases of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment, to examine what conditions and their combinations contribute to the occurrence of environmental conflicts. It is found that a ‘lack of communicative space’ and a ‘lack of government trust’ are the sine qua non for urban environmental spatial conflict and that the existence of ‘spatial cognition differences,’ the use of ‘discourse framework,’ ‘technological power,’ ‘organizational strategies,’ and ‘social actors’ are found to be sufficient causes for the occurrence of spatial conflict in urban environments. Accordingly, the article constructs five contextualized models to explain the formation of spatial conflict in urban environments. In contrast to the traditional ‘institution-centered,’ ‘culture-centered,’ ‘identity-centered,’ and ‘media-centered’ approaches to the study of environmental resistance, this study based on the theory of spatial conflicts shall enhance our knowledge and understanding of the ‘spatial dimension’ in the phenomenon of environmental resistance. They reveal the political and social nature of the spatial production of urban environments, thus providing a theoretical framework for understanding the occurrence of environmental resistance from a spatial perspective, while providing a compatible and holistic insight into the ‘politics of elite resistance’ and the ‘politics of subaltern resistance,’ and outlining the possibility of bridging the theoretical differences. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 49-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2023.2298012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2023.2298012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:1:p:49-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2310437_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Rigao Liu Author-X-Name-First: Rigao Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Haruka Nagao Author-X-Name-First: Haruka Author-X-Name-Last: Nagao Author-Name: William Hatungimana Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Hatungimana Title: Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China Abstract: Citizens’ satisfaction with governance is a critical political issue in China. How do citizens evaluate the effort to improve governance quality by the Chinese government? Are citizens satisfied with the governance at the local level? Does citizens’ economic well-being affect their evaluation of local governance, and if so, how? Drawing data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) 2018 survey, this study attempts to provide some insights to these questions by investigating whether citizens’ economic well-being shapes their evaluations of local governance. We find that respondents with a stronger sense of subjective economic well-being are more likely to be satisfied with local governance. However, objective economic well-being has a slightly negative impact on local governance satisfaction. Chinese citizens generally express a high level of satisfaction with local governance. Therefore, perceived economic well-being influences local government favorability more than the representation of economic well-being in material wealth. The findings point to a complex relationship between economic well-being and evaluation of governance quality. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 153-172 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2310437 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2310437 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:153-172 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2309597_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Limei Yu Author-X-Name-First: Limei Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Author-Name: Zhiqiang Xia Author-X-Name-First: Zhiqiang Author-X-Name-Last: Xia Title: The impact of China’s endowment insurance system on health behavior Abstract: Health behavior has a substantial impact on health conditions. Illness prevention through good health behavior is the most economical and effective health protection strategy. From an institutional standpoint, while endowment insurance systems have been widely recognized as an important means of promoting individual’s health and heightened by the current aging population situation, empirical analyses of whether and how endowment insurance affects health behavior are still limited. This paper uses China Family Panel Studies data from 2010 to 2020 to verify the relationship between the two. The results reveal that endowment insurance systems with different security levels have diametrically opposite effects on the behavior of the insured. Mediating effect analysis shows that the effect of basic endowment insurance is channeled by enhancing individuals’ awareness of health risks, while the effect of supplementary endowment insurance is achieved by guiding residents to devote more time to work. In addition, the impact of the endowment insurance system is heterogenous over age, economic conditions and place of residence. This study uncovers the novel relationship between endowment insurance and health behavior and adds to the theoretical understanding of health behavior from the perspectives of policy feedback and behavioral public management. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 279-302 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2309597 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2309597 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:279-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2331284_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Yang Jia Author-X-Name-First: Yang Author-X-Name-Last: Jia Author-Name: Bingsheng Liu Author-X-Name-First: Bingsheng Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Jinfeng Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Jinfeng Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Impact of supply–demand matching on citizen satisfaction: analysis based on expectancy disconfirmation model Abstract: In the context of ensuring the well-being of citizens, the energy industry should predominantly adhere to the people-oriented approach. Investigation of citizen satisfaction through the lenses of power supply and societal demand is of utmost importance. This study constructs a satisfaction model based on expectancy disconfirmation theory, employs response surface analysis to explore the impact of matching degree between demand and supply on citizen satisfaction. The results show that citizen satisfaction is notably higher in case of a match between public expectations and supply quality compared to mismatch scenarios. Furthermore, instances involving both high public expectations and high supply quality, yield greater satisfaction compared to scenarios involving low public expectations and low supply quality. Importantly, citizen satisfaction experiences a dip when public expectations surpass supply quality, unlike situations where public expectations fall short of supply quality. Policy awareness does not moderate the effect of matching analysis on citizen satisfaction. This research enriches the scope of understanding the complex nature of public satisfaction, offering theoretical support for the high-quality development of power supply departments, catering to both energy needs and well-being of citizens. Thus, the current study significantly contributes to promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the local social economy. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 221-243 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2331284 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2331284 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:221-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2332005_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Weizhan Meng Author-X-Name-First: Weizhan Author-X-Name-Last: Meng Author-Name: Feng Wang Author-X-Name-First: Feng Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Ge Xin Author-X-Name-First: Ge Author-X-Name-Last: Xin Title: Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for agile governance to effectively address and prevent future global crises. Scholars have examined China’s grid system and its application by local governments in controlling the spread of COVID-19. Our research supports these findings, and we further argue that the grid system enhances responsiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency in governance, thereby benefiting both the government and its citizens. Through a detailed case study of grid governance in the M District of Shanghai from July 2020 to August 2022, we explore the operational mechanisms of the grid system. By incorporating the safety valve theory, we propose that the community grid, the smallest administrative unit in China, functions as an institution to issue pre-emptive warnings, integrate communities, and alleviate pressures during times of crisis, contributing to governance agility. As grid governance has constantly been strengthened, this research not only advances our comprehension of the effectiveness of grassroots governance in China, but also offers valuable insights pertaining to crisis management in mega-cities worldwide. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 197-220 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2332005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2332005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:197-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2327735_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: RunZe Liu Author-X-Name-First: RunZe Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Lin Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Lin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Author-Name: ZhiWei Cao Author-X-Name-First: ZhiWei Author-X-Name-Last: Cao Author-Name: JiaNing Mi Author-X-Name-First: JiaNing Author-X-Name-Last: Mi Title: Influence of gamification affordance on young citizens’ motivation and learning performance toward digital civic education Abstract: The popularity of digital civic education has gained the attention of educators, policymakers, and public administrators worldwide across the globe. Research scholars have also been focused on understanding how young citizens’ motivation and learning outcomes can be stimulated. Based on gamification affordances and self-determination theory, this study examines how three gamification affordances (i.e. reward affordance, competition affordance, and self-expression affordance) affect young citizens’ intrinsic motivation and learning performance in digital civic education. In addition, the study examines the moderating effect of the modularity of gamified learning activities on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and learning performance. Data for this research were collected from 454 young citizens of a digital civic education platform through an online survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the proposed research model. The empirical results indicate that the three gamification affordances exert different degrees of influence on the satisfaction of young citizens’ intrinsic psychological needs, which in turn, facilitates their learning performance. Further, the results indicate that the modularity of gamified learning activities impedes the impact of psychological need satisfaction on learning performance. This study is important in that it helps educators and politicians understand the needs of young citizens through gamified digital civic education modes. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 244-278 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2327735 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2327735 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:244-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RGOV_A_2334090_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Shizong Wang Author-X-Name-First: Shizong Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yuqi Deng Author-X-Name-First: Yuqi Author-X-Name-Last: Deng Author-Name: Zhihan Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Zhihan Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Breaking the dilemma of hands-off and hands-on: the multi-order meta-governance in China Abstract: In governance theory, there is a crucial theoretical conundrum of meta-governance: how can meta-governors simultaneously stay outside of the governed network while also being embedded within it, and appropriately apply hands-off and hands-on strategies? The heterogeneous experiences of governance practices in non-Western contexts may help to explore this issue. The paper examines the ‘Starfish Project’(haixing jihua), a volunteer action aimed at improving the incomes of rural residents in mountainous areas of H District in N City, China, against the backdrop of promoting common prosperity. This initiative involves non-profit organizations, market actors, and government agencies, forming a multi-order meta-governance system. In this system, the government acts as a second-order meta-governor. It provides shared values, norms, and objectives, for the social network, thereby conferring institutional legitimacy upon the social network and its activities. Meanwhile, a non-profit organization operates as a first-order meta-governor within the network, and leverages market-based mechanisms to continuously incentivize network members, foster network interaction, and facilitate conflict resolution. The multi-order meta-governance model provides a potential solution to the dilemma. However, it is important to note that this may not yet be a definitive solution to the conundrum. Journal: Journal of Chinese Governance Pages: 173-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2024.2334090 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2024.2334090 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:9:y:2024:i:2:p:173-196