This article presents a research synthesis of 162 studies focusing on information use for
decision‐making in public administration, management, and policy. The findings reveal that …

A key insight in the literature on administrative burdens and exclusion is that they can be a
form of policy making by other means to disincentivize people's access to services, rights …

To develop a robust surveillance apparatus in the digital age, autocracies are compelled to
rely on foreign suppliers or to allow domestic private entrepreneurs to enter a strategic …

Chinese cities are increasingly using digital technologies to address urban problems and
govern society. However, little is known about how this digital transition has been …

Based on ethnographic research carried out during the 2022 Covid-19 surge in southern
China, this paper examines the roll-out of a contact-tracing tool called the Time-Space …

There is a growing literature on how policy capacities shape policy implementation. In this
article we focus on a specific type: information capacity and its effects on implementation …

The increasingly complex environmental governance causes the authorities responsible for
implementing environmental policies fragmented. Whether environmental policy integration …

Surveillance infrastructure in China monitors and enables authorities to react to potential
risky, miscreant or criminal behaviour. What type of behaviours are perceived to be so, is …

Academic debates highlight bureaucratic steering of crisis governance in authoritarian
China. Nonetheless, the crisis response from the bottom up has been less represented. To …

China has insisted on a zero-Covid policy for almost three years, deploying many
disciplinary containment measures and surveillance tools. This chapter examines a …