With a focus on Tianjin, this article examines the recent widespread establishment of 'charity
supermarkets' in China's cities. Inspired by the example of certain 'thrift shops' in the US …

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 …

Little is known about the effects of two prominent public sector reforms—anticorruption
efforts and high‐powered incentive systems—on the accomplishment of policy goals in the …

Existing literature on China's Performance Evaluation System and how it shapes cadre
behavior tends to assume a hierarchy of work targets either through the framework of soft …

Decentralised policymaking in China is often cited as a key success factor in economic
reform and authoritarian resilience. Although the existing literature presents policy diffusion …

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 …

The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng
Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often …

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 …

Political selection in China has received increasing scholarly attention. Conventional
measures of political promotion may suffer measurement error because of an (implicit) …

This research investigates the contentious use of temple assets amid widespread local state-
led religious commodification in contemporary China. Based on a comparative analysis of …