The economic costs of environmental regulations are well documented, but their political
cost is still unclear, especially in cases of substantial pollution reduction. This study presents …

Civic activism is increasingly popular for authoritarian regimes to ensure local compliance
and improve local governance, but it also places pressure on local officials. How do local …

This article argues that the state-society relations in China's digital era are shaped not only
by the communication between the citizens and governments but also by the interactions …

Cooptation is widely applied to study authoritarian legislatures, but it is often used to identify
and placate the opposition groups. For one-party authoritarian regimes in which the …

This study proposes an organization–person framework and examines whether
management of public officials shapes capable young elites' preferences of government …

Stewardship, serving the long-term collective interest over self-interests, is an important
component of public employee behavior. However, the various definitions and inconsistent …

Why do citizens prefer to utilize personal connections (eg guanxi) with government officials
to access public services? Conventional wisdom suggests that improvements in formal …

Although intensive efforts have been made to stamp out corporate frauds, it appears that
fraud presents in various forms with an increasing trend in terms of frequency and severity …

This chapter investigates the change of China's vertical power structure under the
leadership of Xi Jinping and how it affects the recent practices of policy experimentation in …

Political leaders in China regularly launch anti-corruption campaigns to win public support.
But how are anti-corruption signals perceived? We use event study to examine the case of …