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{"title":"Policy advocacy, network formation and network governance","authors":"Hongtao Yi, Meng Yuan","doi":"10.1177/15396754221145421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221145421","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the mechanisms underlying the formation of U.S. national clean energy policy network. Informed by the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework, this article develops and tests hypotheses regarding cooperation versus coordination hypotheses regarding the reasons underlying clean energy policy actors’ networking activities. Using a webcrawler data collection strategy and measuring policy network with hyperlink network, a data set of network relationships among the clean energy policy actors is collected. Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) are applied to test the proposed hypotheses, and results show strong empirical evidence supporting cooperation hypotheses, with partial support for coordination hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"83 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43748977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crypto altruism: Applying blockchain to charitable and humanitarian activities","authors":"Mikayla Novak","doi":"10.1177/15396754231175173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231175173","url":null,"abstract":"Charities and humanitarian organizations have come under closer scrutiny over recent years. Highly publicized financial scandals, together with criticisms concerning the cost, effectiveness, and underlying motivations of certain charitable and humanitarian activities, appear to have corroded public trust. Can recent innovations in blockchain assist in improving nonprofit effectiveness and, through it, trust amongst donors, beneficiaries, and broader communities? This paper deploys a “cost of trust” framework to assess blockchain potential in reinforcing trust in charitable and humanitarian operations. Blockchain has been touted by its advocates as a potential solution for charities to reduce the cost of trust, by: (i) enabling observable funding flows; (ii) enforcing conditions regarding funding disbursement and use; and (iii) facilitating direct giving. Despite a growing number of use cases, limitations of this technology in reducing the cost of trust are also recognized in respect of complex relationships between donating and trust perceptions in heterogeneous environments.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Sergey O Shokhin and Ekaterina V Kudryashova, <i>The Legal Framework for Strategic Planning in Contemporary Russia: Monograph</i>","authors":"Anton B Didikin, Konstantin V Davydov","doi":"10.1177/15396754231164773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231164773","url":null,"abstract":"Many of the public management concepts that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century are still in use in the 21st century. One of these century-old, but still relevant instruments of public governance is planning. Throughout the process of falls and rises during the 20th century (Minzberg, 1994) modern strategic planning concept evolved into one of the means of efficient public governance in the evergrowing complexity of social processes. Although strategic management is an area of serious academic inquiry, there is still a need for better understanding of its theoretical basis and practical implementation. General approaches to strategic planning are crystallizing out of theoretical discussions fueled by the studies on specific countries’ experiences. In 2022 Shokhin S.O., Kudryashova E.V. published “The Legal Framework for Strategic Planning in Contemporary Russia.” MGIMO Publishing House publishes such book across a range of social science disciplines in various formats and in different languages trying to reach the educated community around the world. The new volume is another attempt to make the Russian administrative practices and scientific findings more accessible for academics and practitioners around the world. This is important for maintaining the diversity of views in social sciences. The book presents a few milestones in the evolution of the strategic planning concept. Some milestones have been forgotten by social science researchers now. For example, in 1922 the country which was mostly relying on plans in its social-economic development appeared on the political map of the world. We speak about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR). The publication of the book marks this centennial anniversary. In the first chapter the authors look closer at the historical processes. For instance, they mention the first largescale economy recovery plan in Soviet Russia—the GOELRO—the Government Electrification of Russia plan of 1920. Later this mega-plan transformed into a socialeconomic development plan. The authors highlight the influence of the GOELRO success on the recovery and development plans of European countries later in the 20th century. Additionally, the 5-years plans for social-economic development, and their underlying doctrine of planning are discussed in the first chapter. The historic legal framework for planning is presented in this chapter for the reader including the constitutional provisions, the laws on planning as well as the interaction between different documents with legal, political, or quasi-legal nature (we mean here the special form of documents called “directives”1). This detailed historical overview in the first chapter is very useful, because the authors demonstrate the influence of the historical context on the later developments in strategic planning. After the discussion of historical, political, and international context of current strategic planning in Russia the authors focus on the Federal law","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public participation at the local level in China—How does it work? A perspective from within","authors":"Khaldoun AbouAssi, Rui Wang","doi":"10.1177/15396754231162943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231162943","url":null,"abstract":"Public participation is widely adopted in managing public affairs, especially at the central level in many countries. This article examines the current status of public participation in a Chinese local government environmental agency, through the eyes of its employees. We find that informational and consultative forms of public participation are common; other forms of participation that require decision authority sharing are not absent. Regardless, public participation is perceived to be used for its instrumental benefits. The lack of time for citizens to participate and for the agency to manage participation are the major obstacles; the need for a top political decision and more public awareness are needed for the agency to engage the public meaningfully. The good news is that most public sector employees, especially managers, hold a positive view of public participation.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"71 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42354626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Energy efficiency expenditures in cities with municipal-owned utilities","authors":"Hongtao Yi, D. Matkin","doi":"10.1177/15396754221145396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221145396","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, local governments have taken an increasingly prominent role in the use and promotion of so-called “green” technologies. Cities and counties that own their own utilities have a unique set of opportunities and incentives to involve citizens in “green” initiatives. Some of those governments invest significant levels of resources on energy efficiency programs, others invest a little, and others are yet to initiate “green” initiatives. We examine this issue with data from municipal-owned utilities in cities with populations over 25,000. We test these relationships with Heckman Selection Models and compare the results with those of investor-owned utilities. We find that the decision to initiate energy efficiency programs is associated with state regulations, siting difficulties and the availability of generation units. We also find that expenditure levels to support those programs are associated with the availability of local retail partners, citizens’ ideological orientation, and demand changes.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"148 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47094276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public sectors and nonprofit organizations use of social media to communicate compassion during crisis","authors":"Wanzhu Shi, Fei Luo, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, A. A. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1177/15396754221143446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221143446","url":null,"abstract":"Using compassion is an important public communication strategy associated with many positive outcomes. While research on compassion has grown in many fields, few studies have explored the role of compassion in crisis communication. This study fills the gap in the research to examine if public sectors and nonprofit organizations used compassion on their social media content and how it impacts public emotion in a winter freeze crisis in Texas. Facebook posts from four local agencies were analyzed to investigate the role of compassion in crisis communication during this emergency. The results highlight the value of using compassion on social media in crisis communication. Facebook posts containing compassion components significantly increased online public engagement. Furthermore, compassion functioned to decrease negative emotions and bolster positive emotions among the public. Media richness did not exert any significant impact on public reactions. Policy implications for government agencies and non-profit organizations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"107 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49320948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How can we implement targeted policies of rumor governance? An empirical study based on survey experiment of COVID-19","authors":"Chengzhe Fu, L. Liao, Haolun Xie, Xunzhi Zhou","doi":"10.1177/15396754221139446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221139446","url":null,"abstract":"Since early 2020, COVID-19 has been a major public security crisis that has had an enormous impact on the world. With the spread of the epidemic, rumors occur, some of which have even caused public panic. They have greatly affected the government’s efforts of epidemic prevention and thus urgently need to be evaluated. This study aimed to examine how to make flexible use of different policy tools to govern rumors based on their different characteristics. From the perspective of behavioral public policy, this study observes the effectiveness of various behavioral policy tools in rumor governance, hoping to explore the optimal solution of rumor governance from the perspective of micro public psychology. The survey experiment shows that individual behavior-related rumors (hereafter referred to as IBRs) are easier to be governed than epidemic progress-related rumors (hereafter referred to as EPRs) are, and that quick response is more effective than non-quick response. Through interaction analysis, it is known that in the governance of IBRs, nudge is more effective in rapid response, while in the context of non-quick response, boost outperforms nudge in rumor governance. A similar phenomenon can be seen in the scenario of EPR governance, despite a tinier difference in effectiveness compared with that of IBRs. The study enlightens us that rumor refutation requires not only people’s disbelief in and restraint on rumors, but also the implementation of science-based targeted policies. Based on the conclusion, this study puts forward suggestions on implementing targeted policies of rumor governance.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"120 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42138164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multimodal assessment of political corruption worsening national poverty: Evidence of mediating and moderating effects from global panel data","authors":"Leizhen Zang, Bingqian Zhang, Feng Xiong","doi":"10.1177/15396754221146073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221146073","url":null,"abstract":"Political corruption is one of the structural factors aggravating national poverty, on which there is a consensus. However, it remains controversial what factors constrain the causal mechanisms by which political corruption worsens national poverty. This paper analyzed this using different models with the global panel data of 117 counties from 1992 to 2017, including the instrumental variable model. The authors found that: (1) There was a significant positive correlation between political corruption and national poverty, (2) Political corruption exacerbating national poverty was constrained by primary education and the Gini index, which played a mediating role, (3) The level of foreign direct investment and public services moderated the relationship between political corruption and national poverty. Finally, the authors discussed the potential implications beyond national poverty for theory, method, and policy.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"137 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48353481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the hybridization from policy learning on the forest-certification schemes in China","authors":"C. Hsieh","doi":"10.1177/15396754221140795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221140795","url":null,"abstract":"The policy of forest certification in China is a collaborative tactic for environmental entities to influence local politics based on the declaration of a national “Five-Year Plan” by President Xi Jin-Ping in the 2010s. This is due to the homogeneous impact led by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to hybridize Chinese forestry management with organizational autonomy, policy participation, and power-sharing. While the Chinese public agencies learned professional knowledge and institutions from the IOs, they also required the FSC to embrace the Chinese characteristics of local politics, standards, and the legitimacy of international principles. Two findings from the research are revealing: First, the FSC and IO’s central role of civil empowerment enhanced the China’s power-sharing with local stakeholders for cultivating the China certification scheme; second, the FSC’s principle modification embraced the Chinese characteristics to reform the policy hybridization mechanism under the political culture of Administrative Absorption of Society. The innovative purpose of this research is to employ the homogeneous and heterogeneous dimensions to explore the influential factors of policy hybridization from a network perspective.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"54 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48964416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Magnetic effect of government responsiveness on public participation: An empirical analysis based on the provincial Leadership Message Board in China","authors":"D. Chang, Tianguang Meng","doi":"10.1177/15396754221137637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221137637","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship of government responsiveness and public participation is an important issue of the opinion-policy nexus theory. Based on the “Leadership Message Board” 31 province of China, this study systematically investigated the effect of government responsiveness on public participation. The results find government responsiveness has a magnetic effect on public participation, and the response efficiency, response actors, and response discourse have different effects on public participation. Besides, response discourse has a moderating effect on the influence of high-level response and authoritative department response on public participation. This study provides a new perspective for understanding the governance logic of government responsiveness.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"94 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65403165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}