Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

This study investigates the impact of Chinese new authoritarian principles on the approach
to multi-level governance that China has implemented during the national transition to smart …

China is a leader in the global transportation industry, with an especially significant position
in ocean ports. A mapping of every ocean port outside of China reveals that Chinese firms …

Scholarship on local governance in China in general and on the Chinese policy process in
particular has expanded remarkably over the last four decades. Where earlier studies were …

China's urbanization has avoided the expansion of slums despite the influx of rural migrants.
What might explain this phenomenon? We argue that Chinese urbanization is driven by two …

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is expanding its organizational infrastructure in the
private sector, revealing the dynamics of CCP-style institutional change. Party building …

During China's reform era, dominant narratives described a transition away from centralised
planning in favour of mutually reinforcing processes of liberalisation and decentralisation …

In the new era of Xi Jinping, the Party has become more assertive, reclaiming the function of
managing social organizations that the government agencies had carved out for themselves …

China features a fast-growing mining industry with mounting environmental problems. This
study examines the dilemmas posed by this growth from the perspective of credibility and …

The credibility of informality has become a fertile frontier in the study of institutions as is
evidenced by the Credibility Thesis and its applications. Whereas the preceding contribution …