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{"title":"Geographic location, development of higher education and donations to Chinese non-public foundations","authors":"Qiushi Wang, Zongfeng Sun","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1908733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1908733","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent years, Chinese non-public foundations have grown at an unprecedented rate, but research on charitable donations to these organizations is scarce. Building on nonprofit literature and borrowing from resource dependence, neo-institutionalism and interdependence theories, we seek to disentangle the distinctive donation pattern in Chinese non-public foundations by focusing on geographic location and higher education. To test the hypotheses, we performed Tobit and IV-Tobit regression analyses on data collected from 1,490 Chinese non-public foundations for 2013. We found that those foundations located near the center of provincial capitals received significantly more domestic donations. The development of higher education institutions located in the same area as the foundation also had a positive impact on donations. The findings of this research improve our understanding about the distinctive donation patterns during a period of fast economic transition and suggest useful ways for increasing the revenues of Chinese non-public foundations.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"8 1","pages":"373 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1908733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48662882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimation on Chinese families who lost their only child and the fiscal sustainability of the social assistance system","authors":"Xin-yun Lin, Wei Zhou, H. Mi","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1883289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1883289","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract China implemented a universal two-child policy in 2016. But its earlier one-child policy resulted in a large population of one-child parents who face miserable later lives if their only-child passes away before them. China’s Current social assistance to such Shidu families is not supportive enough and provides insufficient coverage. Using demographic methods, this paper estimates both the mortality of only-children and the population of Shidu parents over 49 years-old. Furthermore, it advocates for improvements to the standard of social assistance for Shidu families and measures the financial sustainability of that suggested standard. After analyzing Chinese national census data and China Fertility Status Survey data, we found that the risk of death for a rural only-child was higher than for an urban only-child in every age group. Following the concept of period parity progression, we estimated the scale of Shidu parents, which will gradually increase to a peak of 1.05 million in 2030. Considering present policies and the Shidu parents’ unmet needs, we argue that China’s central government should increase its economic support of such families, include those support policies in a comprehensive social security system, and offer more emotional care.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"8 1","pages":"418 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1883289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43157563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promote the “dual circulation”, build a new development pattern","authors":"Q. Miao, Hui Yin","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1890418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1890418","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Yu Jianxing and his team authored a book titled ‘Promote the “dual circulation,” build a new development pattern.’ It is the first research in China devoted to ‘the new dual circulation d...","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"6 1","pages":"456 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1890418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47325038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change: the case of process-tracing China’s central government infrastructure PPP policies between 1988 and 2017","authors":"Huanming Wang, Bin Chen, J. Koppenjan","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies from 1988 to 2017 by looking at evolving policy goals, policy measures, and policy co-issuing networks. Results suggest that China’s central government infrastructure PPP policy change follows a refined EG approach in which policies change incrementally in a layering pattern, primarily driven by learning. Findings provide a new account of incremental policy change.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"7 1","pages":"27 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1898151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The changing credibility of institutions: how household registration systems (hukou) in Mainland China and Taiwan define immigrants’ social benefits","authors":"Shih‐Jiunn Shi","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1896206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1896206","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The hukou is one of the enduring institutions that defines social citizenship of residents/immigrants in mainland China. Whilst much discussion has focused on the Chinese case, relatively little attention has been paid to the system in Taiwan, to say nothing of a comparison between the two. This article seeks to enrich the discussion of the two hukou systems in terms of their functions in determining the access of cross-strait immigrants to social benefits in the respective host countries. Drawing on the ‘credibility thesis’, the analytical locus is placed on the continuity and change of institutional functions underlying the apparent persistence of institutional forms. When granting/withholding immigrants access to local social benefits, hukou systems fulfil several functions: firstly, a symbolic dimension, in which immigrants from both sides are (artificially) regarded as citizens of a divided nation rather than two separate countries; secondly, a substantial dimension that defines the scope and extent of social benefit entitlements granted to the immigrants in question; and finally, a management dimension that allows room for considerable administrative discretion in terms of adaptation to various circumstances arising from the unsettled state of cross-strait relations. Often times, realisation of these various functions is compounded by conflicts in identity politics, with repercussions for the generosity/rigidity of social inclusion for cross-strait immigrants. Evidence underpinning the theoretical elaboration stems from the analysis of legal documents regulating the social rights of immigrants in mainland China and Taiwan, supplemented by historical traces of the politics of cross-strait migration. The final findings should shed light on the facilitative/restrictive mechanisms of the hukou regulations in mainland China and Taiwan, highlighting the puzzling phenomenon that both hukou systems are gaining increasing significance in steering the cross-strait migration at a time when their functions in regulating domestic migration are changing, if not waning.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"6 1","pages":"307 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1896206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural resource balance sheet compilation: a land resource asset accounting case","authors":"Daolin Zhu, Wensheng Duan, Hui Zhang, Ting Du","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1891721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1891721","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Investigating the principles and methods of natural resource asset accounting and balance sheet compilation is an important aspect of protecting natural resources and promoting ecological civilization. Accounting should be based on physical quantity accounting and supplemented by value quantity accounting. To avoid interest distortion caused by excessive paid use and valuation, the monopolized use of natural resources should be avoided. The contents of land resource asset accounting should include the area, quality, and price, and value quantity accounting should follow the principle of marketability. The balance sheet of natural resources should belong to the category of the national balance sheet. It is proposed that emphasis should be placed on promoting the use of modern information technology, as well as surveying and mapping techniques, to conduct comprehensive and accurate surveys of various types of natural resources. Scientific, solid, and accurate investigation and monitoring data are the foundation of natural resource asset accounting.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"6 1","pages":"515 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1891721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47530585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improvement of environmental performance and optimization of industrial structure of the Yangtze River economic belt in China: going forward together or restraining each other?","authors":"Bing Zhou, Fei Zhou, Dan Zhou, Jingxin Qiao, B. Xue","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1888472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1888472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Based on the panel data of eleven provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China from 2008 to 2018, both the optimization index of the industrial structure and environmental performance indexes are calculated. Then, the impact of industrial structure optimization on the improvement of ecological environmental performance was investigated by applying the static panel model and threshold model. The results show that the optimization of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has a significant role in promoting the improvement of environmental performance in general. Still, the rationalization of the industrial structure has a single threshold effect. The upgrading of regional industrial structure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the rationalization of regional industrial structure in the Yangtze River's upper reaches are more conducive to improving ecological environment performance. Therefore, in the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the downstream region should strengthen scientific and technological innovation, strive to break through the core and critical technologies, and mainly build clean and efficient green service industries.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"6 1","pages":"435 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1888472","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48649709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trust is in the air: pollution and Chinese citizens' attitudes towards local, regional and central levels of government","authors":"Hedda Flatø","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1875675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1875675","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Scholars, commentators and Chinese policymakers point to air pollution as a possible challenge to the popular standing of the Communist Party of China’s rule. However, the question of whether air pollution is systematically linked with Chinese citizens’ attitudes toward authorities has not been studied for the country as a whole, during the past decade’s surge in attention to environmental problems. Analyzing high-quality, nationally representative survey data in combination with satellite-based PM2.5 estimates, this research finds that citizens who perceive local air to be of bad quality have lower probability than others for expressing trust in county and provincial governments. Air pollution did not make a significant difference to probability for trusting central government. The study contributes to hierarchical trust literature and identifies differential trust dynamics for observed and perceived air pollution and over time, across Mainland China’s population.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"7 1","pages":"180 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1875675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49597949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governance, legitimacy, and decision-making capability of the Chinese national social security fund-against the backdrop of international comparison","authors":"Yu Gan","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2021.1879452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2021.1879452","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To deal with the pension crisis, many countries have established the ‘Public Pension Reserve Funds (PPRFs)’. The Chinese government has also established the Chinese National Social Security Fund (NSSF), a typical PPRF to deal with the Chinese pension crisis. This paper focuses on the governance issues of the Chinese NSSF. More specifically, it focuses on the NSSF’s board to determine its decision-making capabilities, during which I will talk about the expertise and representation issues in the NSSF. The paper found that, first, the NSSF’s board may have more symbolic significance than substantive powers, which may be the result of the government’s endorsement of the legitimacy of the NSSF. Second, we found that the representation and expertise tension that prevail in Western pension funds governance also exist in China’s NSSF, and the analytical framework for this tension is also applicable to the discussion of Chinese cases. Third, through international comparison, we infer that an efficient board of directors might be a necessary condition for the pension funds’ good performance, but not a sufficient condition.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"8 1","pages":"34 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2021.1879452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45660359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aspiring rule-makers: Chinese business actors in global governance","authors":"Hongying Wang, Hanzhi Yu","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1864929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1864929","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Business actors from the global South have traditionally been marginalized in global private governance. But this may be changing. A growing number of business actors in China have become involved in global governance, with some showing an ambition to act as rule makers. What have motivated these Chinese companies? How do they go about promoting their initiatives? What is their relationship with the Chinese government in this endeavor? We explore these questions by empirically investigating two cases—the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) initiated by the Alibaba Group and the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) supported by the State Grid Corporation of China. We identify several areas where the Chinese experience can enrich the literature on global private governance, which has been primarily derived from studies of actors from the global North.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":"7 1","pages":"137 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1864929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42998122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}