This research focuses on innovation and its diffusion in public services in authoritarian
China. A mechanism between vertical government intervention and diffusion of innovation in …

This research focuses on policy diffusion of performance management in authoritarian
China. A three-stage theory of diffusion is proposed by conducting a process that traces …

This article explores the complicated triangular architecture among innovation diffusion,
fiscal recentralization, and authoritarian welfare regimes. We argue that local governments' …

How does the vertical power structure of government shape innovation adoption? This study
explores the relationship between administrative centralization and the adoption of local …

This article builds theoretical linkages between the political mobility of local officials and the
dynamic diffusion of innovation in decentralized authoritarian China. We built two datasets …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether fiscal decentralization has impacts
on city innovation level and to examine the moderating effects of the preference for …

In this article, I address the puzzle of what motivates local officials in China to do something
new—create a new policy, launch a pilot, adopt an experimental policy—especially when …

How do governments respond to multiple types of external pressures under limited
resources? Are the effects of different types of diffusional pressures complementary or …

Despite playing a key contributing role in China's economic reforms and the Party's regime
durability, there has been a noted reduction in local policy experimentation. Using semi …

Chinese provincial governments choose to become active and leading participants in
standardization projects rather than opt out of them. As most extant literatures focus on the …