{"title":"Ambiguity and conflict in pension policies implementation: evidence from China","authors":"Lei Guo, Yuhao Ba","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1809312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1809312","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While the literature generally acknowledges that target groups affect policy implementation, we argue that a more detailed investigation of the mechanisms and factors associated with such effect is necessary. Drawing on the Ambiguity-Conflict Model, we explore how target groups’ perceived policy ambiguity and conflict relate to the implementation of Corporate Employee Pension (CEP) policies in China. Empirically, we utilize a unique sample of all firms listed on China’s A-stock market from 2008 to 2014 and hypothesize that target groups’ perceived policy ambiguity and conflict negatively associate with the implementation outcomes of the CEP policies in China. Our results confirm such a relationship and suggest that the implementation outcomes, from most favorable to least favorable, follow the order: Administrative Implementation, Political Implementation or Experimental Implementation, and Symbolic Implementation. Such results are robust to both state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises. Our research offers implications for both scholars and practitioners of pension policies in China.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1809312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44955742","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":"Corporate governance: five-factor theory-based financial fraud identification","authors":"Mengshuang Du","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1803036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1803036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The frequent occurrences of financial fraud in listed companies have had a serious impact on the stable development of the capital market. The Chinese company, Luckin Coffee, listed in the USA, recently confessed to fabricating transactions worth RMB2.2 billion and has received a delisting notice from NASDAQ. It can be seen that the detection and analysis of financial fraud behavior is very important not only for the internal governance of companies and for their external investors but also for regulatory agencies. This article uses a research method combining normative analysis with empirical research, utilizes a targeted selection of data from the listed companies penalized due to fictitious profits, uses the CRIME theory as the basis for normative analysis, and establishes a financial fraud identification model by means of empirical analysis. Finally, based on the research results of this article, we propose rational governance measures for countering the problems of fraud in financial statements of listed companies.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1803036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46464955","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":"Implementing targeted poverty alleviation: a policy implementation typology","authors":"Yutong Si","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1802212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1802212","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Existing research on the targeted poverty alleviation program in China struggles to explain the dynamics of policy implementation. This article incorporates individual-level factors such as street-level bureaucrats’ discretion and behaviors with institutional elements, thus combining structure-centered and actor-centered approaches. The data utilized is from 19 semi-structured interviews with township officials, local village cadres, and villagers located in an eastern province in China. By identifying and coding the policy perspectives of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ (i.e. village cadres in this case) through a two by two factorial table (combinations of the identifiability and the participation willingness of the target population), this study conceptualizes the policy output of ‘behaviors of implementers’ to categorize the policy implementation outcomes of the program. The four policy implementation patterns identified are supportive policy implementation, passive policy implementation, unsustainable policy implementation, and performative policy implementation. By isolating these four policy implementation patterns, this research provides insights on local governance and policy implementation in contemporary rural China.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1802212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46457602","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":"Finding a place for the Party: debunking the “party-state” and rethinking the state-society relationship in China’s one-party system","authors":"Holly Snape, W. Wang","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper proposes a new agenda for research on Chinese politics that overcomes the obscuring effect of the ubiquitous ‘party-state’ construct, finds a substantive place for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and thereby reveals dynamics of the interplay between the Party, society and state that otherwise remain hidden. Since the 1980s, the state-society relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship. Yet most such work treats the CCP as little more than the assumed and elusive source of power behind the state. We show why, in conceptualizing and theorizing this one-party state’s state-society relationship, it is imperative to separate ‘Party’ from ‘state,’ to bring the former under close scrutiny, and to do so in a way that accounts for the multidimensional, multidirectional interplay between state, society and Party. We combine a historical perspective with analysis of political documents and discourse to demonstrate how research toward this new agenda might be pursued. By doing so, we offer examples of the dimensions and dynamics of governance processes, such as tensions between Party and state imperatives, the implications of Party reliance on the state to influence society, and the possible spaces for actor agency that, without this proposed shift, go ignored or misinterpreted.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44108618","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 state of the field for governance and policy innovation in China","authors":"Jessica C. Teets, Nele Noesselt","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641","url":null,"abstract":"On 31 October 2019 the CCP’s fourth plenum concluded with some reflections on governance (innovation) and the role of the Party in the PRC’s ongoing reform and modernization process. The final comm...","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41768795","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":"Analysis of the logical relationship of elements of natural resource governance","authors":"Jian Lin, Chen Liu, Wen Liu","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The improvement of Natural Resource Governance systems plays a crucial role in the building of an ecological civilization in the new era. This study looked into the three major objects and elements of Natural Resource Governance, namely natural resources and the supervision of natural resources, ecology and ecological protection, and environment and environmental governance. It identified two sets of logical relationship lines: ‘carrier supervision and product supervision’ and ‘prevention beforehand and remedy afterward.’ The logical relations between the three elements are as follows: (1) the coordinated expression and legal basis are different for the three elements; (2) the supervision of natural resources and ecological protection are similar in terms of management essence, object scope, and behavioral orientation; (3) the supervision of natural resources and environmental governance have different focal points with regard to management connotation, object scope, behavioral orientation, and technical measures; and (4) in the specific regulatory process, constructive ecological protection is similar to pollution control.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42559539","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":"Homeowner associations and community governance structure in urban China: a politico-economic reinterpretation","authors":"Jeng-Fang Ting, Shanwen Guo, Lingxin Liao","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Chinese homeowner associations (HAs) actions to protect rights have attracted scholarly attention due to beliefs that a new type of local governance or public sphere was being created from bottom-up representation in recent years. However, the current literature studies the impact of actions to protect the rights of HAs on community governance from different angles, but none have tried to analyze some structural factors that might have conditioned these. In general, they are descriptive or prescriptive, behavior-oriented, model-bounded, and case-specific. As a result, they are short of predictability or generalizability. This essay examines the external and internal structural factors for actions to protect rights and combines them as a politico-economic reinterpretation with a focus on the internal governance structure. It argues, the external environment of actions to protect the rights of HAs exhibits a ‘political opportunity structure’, which has fueled the uprising of a rights-protecting movement. Meanwhile, the internal structure shows that the nature of an ‘incomplete contract’ for property transfer between developers and homeowners is a condition of the development of community governance and its performance. When combined together, this internal-external nexus leads to different explanations and to some possible solutions to improve governance for commercial housing communities in urban China.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42258712","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 question of authority","authors":"J. Migdal","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Authority is at the core of the human condition. In every realm of existence—social life, politics, economics—some people exercise authority over others. The exercising of authority comes in many different guises and at many different levels of human society. The epitome in the breadth and depth of exercising authority is the modern state. In some ways, it attempts to usurp the authority of all other social organizations. The topic of states exercising authority seems, at first glance, to be self-evident. After all, states are the most powerful organizations on earth. They are replete with agencies and bureaus, departments and ministries, not to speak of armies and police forces. Yet, most states run into difficulties in exercising power—implementing policies and succeeding in changing people’s behavior. This article analyzes the reasons states experience such difficulties.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725402","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":"Constructing the accountability of food safety as a public problem in China: a document analysis of Chinese scholarship, 2008–2018","authors":"Ronghui Yang, K. Horstman, B. Penders","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Incessant food safety scandals in China have given rise to a loss of public trust in food safety, stimulating a series of studies focussing on food safety governance, accountability, and trust restoration. Against this backdrop, Chinese scholars are keen to reflect on different strategies for ensuring food safety public accountability and credibility, presenting different perspectives on issues like responsibility, trust, risk communication, and transparency. In this paper, we aim to get more in-depth insight into how Chinese scholarly debates co-construct public accountability for food safety as a public issue. We selected 51 articles from 10,790 candidates drawn from four Chinese academic databases for content analysis. Drawing from political theories on public accountability as well as science and technology studies, the analysis shows that arguments for a specific public accountability model (more or less centralised, more or less stakeholder participation) are intertwined with the specific role of scientific expertise (more or less authoritative, more or less democratising). As such, the analysis shows how scholarly debates on public accountability for food safety in China co-construct a public forum for discussing supervision and accountability, risk assessment, and transparency.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48884714","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":"Migration regimes and the governance of citizenship: a comparison between legal categories of migration in China and in the European Union","authors":"Paola Pasquali","doi":"10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper aims at providing a general picture of how the citizenship migration nexus currently unfolds in China and in the European Union (EU). Although China is a nation state and the EU is a supranational entity, both entities are characterised by internal and external politico-legal borders delineating two self-contained migration areas. Drawing on a definition of citizenship which transcends its usual national connotation, this paper will review and compare how different migration categories available to individuals on the move (citizens and non-citizens) come with differential accesses to citizenship rights within the two contexts. The comparison will show that in spite of different approaches towards irregular migration, welfare and humanitarian issues, current categories of migration within these two migration regimes converge in the way in which they grant differential access to citizenship rights based on the (assumed) economic worth of individuals on the move. The final part of this paper reflects upon the lessons that each system could draw from the other and postulates such convergence as an indicator of the correlation between the granting of citizenship rights and neoliberal imperatives in the governance of migration worldwide.","PeriodicalId":45091,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42991178","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}