Journal of Chinese Governance

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Sujian Guo

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Volume 11, issue 1, 2026

Simulating social perception with large language models: perceptions of China’s common prosperity pp. 1-29

Zhuoren Jiang, Biao Huang, Jianan Ge, Chenxi Lin, Yueqian Xu and Jianxing Yu

Public administration with, of, and through AI: toward a new paradigm in the era of intelligence pp. 30-57

Xufeng Zhu

Public data openness and urban resilience governance: evidence from China pp. 58-88

Lei Li, Yifan Zheng, Shaojun Ma, Zijian Guo and Michael Goodsite

Consensus vs divide: perceptions of digital governance between elites and mass pp. 89-128

Jing Zhang, Yuan Wang and Tianguang Meng

Move toward citizens: third-party professionals’ coping strategies in public legal e-service delivery in China pp. 129-158

Ruoting Zheng and Ning Liu

Designing service blueprint for chatbots: experimental evidence on public preference for design components pp. 159-186

Shangrui Wang, Yuanmeng Zhang, Yiming Xiao and Zheng Liang

Volume 10, issue 4, 2025

Debating China’s common prosperity with evidence from policy practice pp. 511-531

Jianxing Yu, Jianan Ge, Yueqian Xu and Biao Huang

Dynamic selection of pilot: decoding the underlying logic of China’s innovation policy experimentation pp. 532-557

Linxiu Jiang and Quan Li

The impact of vertical and horizontal pressures on policy diffusion: evidence from APLS adoption in China pp. 558-582

Meng Li and Jue Wang

State or family? Navigating the changing public attitudes towards eldercare responsibilities in China pp. 583-606

Bingdao Zheng and Yanfeng Gu

How do fiscal decentralization and transfer payment disparities widen inequities in elderly care access and utilization in China? pp. 607-629

Xiaoting Liu, Zhengzheng Shi and Hao Lyu

When AI fails, who gets the blame? Citizens’ attribution patterns in AI-induced public service failures pp. 630-659

Zhehao Liang, You Li and Tao Chen

Volume 10, issue 3, 2025

Thirty years of grassroots governance: changing characteristics of village heads in China pp. 339-366

Tonglong Zhang and Zisen Chen

Political incentives and local connections: the impact of mayor characteristics on the provision of public goods pp. 367-393

Yu Teng and Chuanhao Tian

Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China pp. 394-418

Ying Wang and Fulong Wu

Impact of government officials’ imprints on public–private collaboration pp. 419-445

Maoling Yuan and Ning Liu

The effect of anti-corruption efforts on evaluations of governance pp. 446-481

Erik H. Wang

How does government environmental information disclosure matter for public environmental participation intention? pp. 482-510

Shanyong Wang, Jing Wang and Jiusong Chen

Volume 10, issue 2, 2025

Government funding and nonprofit performance in service delivery and policy engagement: exploring the mediating roles of private donations, volunteers, and network quality pp. 165-194

Huirong Bi, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Jianxing Yu and Yongdong Shen

Dynamics of nonprofit crisis communication in the pandemic: crisis narratives of homeless shelters pp. 195-217

Seongho An

‘The assisting hand’ or ‘the grabbing hand’: experimental evidence from PPP investments in the implementation of official rotation systems pp. 218-253

Yefeng Chen, Xiaoqin Liu and Ying Liu

How central policy signals promote the implementation of public–private partnership policies: an empirical analysis of 257 prefecture-level cities in China pp. 254-280

Di Cheng, Yuye Zhao, Leizhen Zang and Wenxuan Yu

Public attitudes towards sustainable development in a changing world: evidence from COVID-19 pp. 281-308

Ting Guan, Yufei Liao and Bing Xue

Collaboration, accountability pressure, and local air pollution governance: evidence from China pp. 309-337

Long Wu, Bo Yan and Xiaohu Wang

Volume 10, issue 1, 2025

Exploring the role of chatbots in enhancing citizen E-participation in governance: scenario-based experiments in China pp. 1-32

Mingxi Zhou, Luning Liu, Junbo Zhang and Yuqiang Feng

Making the people’s voice heard: pathways of E-participative governance in China pp. 33-56

Ge Xin and Jie Huang

Digital forgotten people?: decomposing digital divide in urban China pp. 57-79

Kai Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Yaning Hu and Dian Chen

Does online privacy self-efficacy help promote e-participation for rights protection? pp. 80-105

Shujia Hu and Chengzhi Yi

Local protectionism and national oversight: political connection and the enforcement of environmental regulation in China pp. 106-127

Luyao Ma, Hongru Wang and Sicheng Chen

Factors influencing cross-departmental collaborative performance: evidence from 452 water governance cases in Guangzhou, China pp. 128-163

Minggang Peng, Haina Yan, Luhan Wang and Shenglei Liu

Volume 9, issue 4, 2024

Evaluating the coordinated development between digital technology and local safety management capability: evidence from 31 provinces in China pp. 453-482

Chengyuan Xie, Lu Huang and Yanwei Li

Information collection, public attitudes, and supportive behavior tendencies in the urban digital transformation: a survey experiment in a facial recognition scenario pp. 483-510

Yingwei Wang and Hong Pan

Beyond overhead: decoding donor attitudes toward technology adoption in nonprofit organizations pp. 511-536

Hanjin Mao

China in the era of ‘Top-level design’: hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking pp. 537-557

X. C. Chen and Gunter Schubert

Implementation responsiveness: linking public opinion to policy implementation pp. 558-578

Yao Liu, Ye Zheng and Jiannan Wu

How to enhance villagers’ willingness to participate in grassroots governance through political efficacy? pp. 579-598

Weizhen Zhan, Zhenwu You, Junrui Guo and Dongna Xue

Volume 9, issue 3, 2024

Leveraging computational methods for nonprofit social media research: a systematic review and methodological framework pp. 303-327

Viviana Chiu Sik Wu

Scaling innovation: unveiling urban factors shaping creativity pp. 328-347

Wenyue Cui and Jie Tang

Local government competition and centralised urban growth management policy implementation: evidence from China pp. 348-371

Xiaoqiang Shen, Cifang Wu, Jinping Wang, Xiaobin Zhang and Guan Li

E-government, anticorruption, and citizens’ use of personal connections: evidence from Chinese municipalities pp. 372-395

Ziteng Fan and Liang Ma

A conditional crowd out/in model of government funding on giving of money and time: evidence from social service organizations in China pp. 396-422

Zhongsheng Wu and Qiang Dong

Environmental field transformation: a theory on local environmental protection changes in China pp. 423-452

Liangfei Ye

Volume 9, issue 2, 2024

Economic performance and good governance: examining the role of economic well-being in local governance evaluation in China pp. 153-172

Rigao Liu, Haruka Nagao and William Hatungimana

Breaking the dilemma of hands-off and hands-on: the multi-order meta-governance in China pp. 173-196

Shizong Wang, Yuqi Deng and Zhihan Zhang

Making agile governance work: the community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 197-220

Weizhan Meng, Feng Wang and Ge Xin

Impact of supply–demand matching on citizen satisfaction: analysis based on expectancy disconfirmation model pp. 221-243

Yang Jia, Bingsheng Liu and Jinfeng Zhang

Influence of gamification affordance on young citizens’ motivation and learning performance toward digital civic education pp. 244-278

RunZe Liu, Lin Zhang, ZhiWei Cao and JiaNing Mi

The impact of China’s endowment insurance system on health behavior pp. 279-302

Limei Yu and Zhiqiang Xia

Volume 9, issue 1, 2024

Does top-down accountability promote responsiveness? Evidence from a survey experiment in China pp. 1-22

Pei Zhong and Yu Zeng

Reconceptualizing policy change in China: from soft to harder forms of law in the household registration system reform pp. 23-48

Yi Ma

Influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the Chinese urban environment from the perspective of spatial politics: empirical study based on NCA and fsQCA pp. 49-77

Xiaoxia Zang and Sujian Guo

Nudge citizen participation by framing mobilization information: a survey experiment in China pp. 78-103

Bingsheng Liu, Sen Lin, Xiaohao Yuan, Siqi He and Jinfeng Zhang

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 pp. 104-129

Zhonghua Guo and Zhuozhao Tao

Party-led public participation in neighborhood governance: a comparative analysis of two forms of social networks pp. 130-152

Huifeng Li and Ceren Ergenc