Authoritarian Integrative Governance in China: Understanding the Crucial Role of Political Risk Aversion

Xie, Qiushan

doi:10.1002/pad.1778

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“…Second, in addition to a general public sector context, this study considers special elements in Chinese culture, which echoes scholars’ claim that Chinese culture is unique enough to call for more research on Chinese public management (Tsui, 2006; Xie, 2016). The GCE scale is suitable not only for Chinese public employees.…”

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confidence: 74%

‘No, I cannot just walk away’: government career entrenchment in China

Chen

2020

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Despite compromised work morale, Chinese public employees generally feel reluctant to quit a public service job. The present study looks deeply into government career entrenchment, defined here as “public employees’ perceived career immobility due to the concern for alternative career availability and substantial losses upon career shifting.” By using mixed methods, the authors identify and measure four distinctive types of government career entrenchment, namely, emotional cost, career investment, limited alternatives, and extrinsic rewards. Evidence further shows that emotional cost and extrinsic rewards are more associated with positive work attitudes, while career investment and limited alternatives are more related to negative work attitudes. At the end of the article, we discuss how the developed government career entrenchment scale can be used for future research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 74%

‘No, I cannot just walk away’: government career entrenchment in China

Chen

2020

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…This approach has been analyzed as an adaptive mode of governing in a complex multilevel system (Heilmann and Perry 2011;Noesselt 2014). Thus, this process takes the form of systematic interregional or interprovincial competition for support and attention from the central government (Xie 2016), whereas the outcome is "experimental heterogeneity" (Zhang and Peck 2016: 65).…”

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The Value of a Valuation Perspective for Theorizing about Social Change and Climate Change: A Study on Carbon Pricing in China

Engels

Wang

2018

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This study combines three purposes: to advance a valuation perspective for theorizing about social change and climate change; to contribute to the general debate on pricing as the dominant policy to meet climate mitigation goals; to improve our understanding of potential decarbonization processes in China. We apply a valuation perspective to an in-depth case study of an emerging carbon market in Hubei Province in Central China. The study builds on original data collected during field trips to Hubei (2014, 2015) and additional documents covering recent developments in the Chinese carbon market. It shows how putting a price on carbon in China emerges as the outcome of a long-term cultural and institutional process in which China’s high-carbon growth model is increasingly contested. We emphasize the work that was required before a carbon price could emerge as a market price, and focus on the uncertainty that needed to be overcome in the complex multilevel Chinese system. We suggest that China’s introduction of low-carbon policies are a side effect of other political, economic and social pressures, and that it is largely facilitated because such policies are consistent with many other changes that are occurring simultaneously both in the Chinese context and globally.

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