Journal of Chinese Governance

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Sujian Guo

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Volume 2, issue 4, 2017

Conflict or cooperation: the patterns of interaction between state and non-state actors in China’s environmental governance pp. 349-359

Yongdong Shen and Benjamin Steuer

How do experts engage in China’s local climate governance? A case study of Guangdong Province pp. 360-384

Liang-Yu Chen

E-waste management in China: bridging the formal and informal sectors pp. 385-410

Eva Ignatuschtschenko

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 pp. 411-436

Benjamin Steuer

Screening environmental challenges in China: three modes of ecocinema pp. 437-459

Kiu-Wai Chu

The institutional causes of environmental protests in China: a perspective from common pool resource management pp. 460-477

Lei Liu and Martin de Jong

Quantitative Research on Policy Literature pp. 478-480

Chao Yang and Jun Su

Volume 2, issue 3, 2017

A quantitative study on the diffusion of public policy in China: evidence from the S&T finance sector pp. 235-254

Cui Huang, Xiaoxu Yue, Mengqu Yang, Jun Su and Jing Chen

Government reform, public governance, and Chinese economic development pp. 255-270

Kuotsai Tom Liou

The changing institutional space regarding roles and behavior of village leaders: an evolution from villagers’ autonomy to the power list pp. 271-291

Yuejin Jing and Lina Zhang

The mechanism for joint and individual accountability based on the multilayered ‘principal–agent’ relationships: taking the implementing of ‘Peaceful Zhejiang’ as an example pp. 292-306

Honghua Huang

Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants pp. 307-328

Xiajuan Guo and Wenyan Tu

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 pp. 329-342

Ziying He and Jinying Zhou

China’s crony capitalism: the dynamics of regime decay pp. 343-345

Li Shao

Fighting for breath: living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village pp. 346-348

Yujing Tan

Volume 2, issue 2, 2017

Local policy-making process in China: a case study pp. 127-148

B. Guy Peters and Yongfei Zhao

The art of political ambiguity: top–down intergovernmental information asymmetry in China pp. 149-168

Jing Vivian Zhan and Shuang Qin

Improvement in the law on farmland transfer in China from a contract governance perspective pp. 169-193

Linlin Li

Legitimacy acquisition of social enterprise in China: a case study of Canyou initiatives pp. 194-208

Li Jian

The Chinese developmental state in transition: in light of the East Asian experiences pp. 209-222

Wei Chen and Shu Keng

Promotion prospects and career paths of local party-government leaders in China pp. 223-234

Xiang Gao

Volume 2, issue 1, 2017

E-monitoring of public servants in China: higher quality of government? pp. 1-19

Jesper Schlæger and Qian Wang

Structural restraints and institutional innovation in local governance: a case study of administrative examination and approval system reforms in Shunde, Ningbo, and Taizhou pp. 20-49

Xuefei Lin and Xianglin Xu

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 pp. 50-67

Lijun Chen and Yan Fu

Energy policy design and China’s local climate governance: energy efficiency and renewable energy policies in Hangzhou pp. 68-90

Ting Guan and Jørgen Delman

Selective use of political opportunity: a case of environmental protest in rural China pp. 91-105

Yanhua Deng and Jonathan Benney

Protecting injured workers: how global ideas of industrial accident insurance travelled to China pp. 106-123

Tao Liu and Lutz Leisering

China’s Future pp. 124-126

Xiang Gao

Volume 1, issue 4, 2016

Introduction to special topic: contemporary challenges for financial management and budgeting in China pp. 543-545

Andrew Podger

Public financial management and the campaign against extravagant position-related consumption in China pp. 546-563

Hanyu Xiao

Why local governments need performance evaluation: intermediary institutions in the performance-based budgeting process in China pp. 564-573

Zaozao Zhao

Adoption or implementation: performance measurement in the city of Guangzhou’s Department of Education pp. 574-590

Meili Niu

Education outlay, fiscal transfer, and inter-region funding equity: a county-level analysis of education finance in China pp. 591-610

Ping Zhang, Zizhou Bu, Youqiang Wang and Yilin Hou

The Chinese ‘Developmental State 3.0’ and the resilience of authoritarianism pp. 611-632

Thomas Heberer

Rethinking subnational government capacity in China pp. 633-653

Kyle Jaros

Volume 1, issue 3, 2016

Reflections on Chinese governance pp. 379-391

Francis Fukuyama

A response to Francis Fukuyama’s ‘reflections on Chinese governance’ pp. 392-404

Kerry Brown

Triangulating human political conditions and reorienting political development in China pp. 405-426

Ming Xia

International sources of political order in the People’s Republic of China: a lacuna in the Fukuyama framework pp. 427-440

Thomas Hale

Fukuyama and the Chinese middle class: modernization theory 1.5 pp. 441-456

Björn Alpermann

Chinese law and governance: moving beyond responsive authoritarianism and the rule of law pp. 457-469

William Hurst

Structural preconditions for the rise of the rule of law in China pp. 470-487

Martin K. Dimitrov

Justification of modern political order: on Fukuyama’s theory of Chinese governance pp. 488-505

Jiantao Ren

The state with a surname: a dialogue with Fukuyama on the state in China pp. 506-519

Yu Liu

Watching Chinese politics under the mirror of the end of history—dialogue with Francis Fukuyama on his reflections on Chinese governance pp. 520-533

Guangbin Yang

Local governance innovation in China: experimentation, diffusion, and defiance pp. 534-538

Xuelian Chen

Varieties of governance in China: migration and institutional change in Chinese villages pp. 539-542

Liang Ma

Volume 1, issue 2, 2016

Sources of regime legitimacy in Confucian societies pp. 195-213

Yun-Han Chu

The Rise of Public Administration in China since 1978: driving forces, problems and prospects pp. 214-227

Jiannan Wu, Yilin Hou and Liang Ma

Order in chaos: re-understand social instability in China pp. 228-250

Yanling He and Guanglong Wang

Dynamics of central–local relations in China’s social welfare system pp. 251-268

Xufeng Zhu

Niche, connections and NGO operation in China pp. 269-283

Yongshun Cai and Jing Zhang

From manipulation to integration: the strategic transformation of grassroots control in China pp. 284-302

Xiaoming Zhang and Zhenghan Cao

Asymmetrical adaptations to grassroots self-government between rural and urban China pp. 303-323

S. Philip Hsu

Climate change challenges and China’s response: mitigation and governance pp. 324-339

Fabiana Barbi, Leila da Costa Ferreira and Sujian Guo

Global systemic risk ranking of Chinese financial institutions pp. 340-372

Abdelkader Derbali

Governing civil service pay in China pp. 373-375

Liang Ma

Corporate power in global agrifood governance pp. 376-378

Jingsong Li

Volume 1, issue 1, 2016

How China’s citizens view the quality of governance under Xi Jinping pp. 1-20

Tony Saich

New Agenda for the Study of Chinese Governance pp. 21-40

Jianxing Yu and Shizong Wang

Learning, training, and governing: the CCP’s cadre education since the reform pp. 41-54

Yu Keping

Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation pp. 55-77

Anna L. Ahlers, Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert

Regulations against revolution: mapping policy innovations in China pp. 78-98

Xuelian Chen and Christian Göbel

From social management to social governance: discourse change and policy adjustment pp. 99-118

Zengke He

Government finances and public interests: perspectives on state-building pp. 119-138

Jing Zhang

Social governance and the Qinghe Experiment pp. 139-156

Li Qiang and Wang Tuohan

Reinstating autonomy: an exploration into the effective forms for realizing villager autonomy pp. 157-173

Yong Xu

The China model and its efficacy in a comparative context pp. 174-187

Liang Tang

Governance and adaption of the Chinese Communist Party: a comparative perspective pp. 188-190

Xiang Gao

Environmental Governance in China pp. 191-194

Yujing Tan and Kai Fang