M De Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 28293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M De Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6554-2458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The asymmetric impacts of governmental grant funding and block funding on research quality in Chinese universities
Invisible hands in energy transitions
This paper focuses on the specific role of installers, a category of often overlooked diffusion intermediaries doing the actual implementation of energy transitions. We adopt an ecosystems perspective and aim to provide new knowledge on the installers' role in energy transitions, possible changes in this role, and the challenges installers face. Based on evidence from case studies in Gothenburg and Rotterdam, we first show how installers make or …
The societal strength of transition
Realizing a circular economy (CE) has been widely recognized by practitioners and researchers as the key to the transition toward sustainability. Thus far the academic emphasis has been predominantly on economic and environmental aspects. However, the development and implementation of CE initiatives actually rely on extensive collaboration at the societal level. Hence, an understanding of how a more inclusive society can strengthen the transition…
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development
Rules for the Governance of Transport and Land use Integration in High-speed Railway Station Areas in China
The rapid high-speed railway development in China has faced many institutional challenges for the integrated development of transport and land use in station areas. This paper aims to gain insight into the institutional rules that structure the actors’ interactions and how they influence the integrated development in station areas. The Institutional Analysis and Development framework has been applied to a specific action situation, named Lanzhou …
Mapping key features and dimensions of the inclusive city
Many local governments engaging in sustainable urban development also have a growing interest in becoming inclusive too, brand themselves as such and develop policies to become inclusive cities. However, knowing what exactly this entails and how it can be achieved is not always quite straightforward and requires thorough theoretical and empirical exploration. Consequently, we present a systematic deconstruction of the inclusive city concept in or…
Dreaming the wrong dream
Sustainable urban transformation has become a mantra for Chinese cities. While most studies focus on sustainable urbanization in megacities, the far larger number of medium-sized cities is understudied, although the latter face more severe urban problems. This article develops a framework for examining policy change in sustainable urban development initiated at the central level and reactions, tensions, and implementation issues emerging at the l…
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China
The development of high-speed railway (HSR) new towns in China represents a new phase of suburbanization and has had a significant impact on urban expansion, but not all of its mechanisms and drivers have been studied. This article aims to understand the booming development of HSR new towns in China through the theoretical lens of state entrepreneurialism. It dissects the entrepreneurial behaviors of the local state in a medium-sized city, which …
Unravelling Decision-Making Processes on Location Choices for High-Speed Railway Stations in China
Most High-Speed Railway (HSR) station areas in China can be found at the urban periphery or in suburban areas, a phenomenon that has often been criticised. While debate about the influence these location choices have on the economic and sustainable development of cities rages on, little attention has been paid to the decision-making processes leading to these locations. This paper investigates these processes by comparing HSR stations in three ci…
Input-Output Modeling for Smart City Development
While many national and local governments in the world are placing their bets on smart city development in countering challenges such as climate change, air pollution, and congestion, few know exactly how to develop them in practice. A high and rising number of publications has appeared addressing the concept of “smart city,” but not many address its implementation. This paper aims at a conceptual understanding of the smart city by describing its…
Path Dependence in Financing Urban Infrastructure Development in China
In the past few decades, urban infrastructures in China have seen an enormous upgrade, and due to large-scale urbanization many more investments are due in the coming years. In order to supplement public funding, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and municipal bonds have recently grown popular in China. The introduction of this new policy does not occur in a void but should be understood as the path-dependent consequence of a historical evolution…
Strategic Use of Analytical Information in Transport Planning in China
Theory on the strategic use of knowledge in planning large infrastructure projects is comparatively well-developed in the fields of public policy and urban/transport planning for Western democracies. But how policymakers make use of knowledge and what position policy analysts hold in non-Western countries still remains largely unknown territory in the literature. This article begins to explore this topic by studying two urban transport projects i…
“Thinking a Lot” Among the Khwe of South Africa
"Thinking too much", and variations such as "thinking a lot", are common idioms of distress across the world. The contextual meaning of this idiom of distress in particular localities remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a systematic study of the content and cause, consequences, and social response and coping related to the local terms |x'an n|a te and |eu-ca n|a te, both translated as "thinking a lot", and was part of a larger ethnogra…
Greater Pearl River Delta
The Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) consists of 11 municipalities, nine of which are located in mainland China (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing, and Huizhou, jointly constituting the Pearl River Delta) and two are Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macao). All of them have undergone different historical trajectories, with Guangzhou, Macao, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen emerging as key cities with…
Trading off public values in High-Speed Rail development in China
Exploring the Relevance of the Eco-City Concept in China
While the original eco-city concept as developed by authors such as Richard Register is based on the ecological carrying capacity of the bio-region and has been fleshed out by others to include Western interpretations of good governance such as having a collaborative platform, constructive dialogue, a systems approach, and integrated policy-making, its practical implementation in China has taken a very different turn. Understanding this gap, the …
China's art of institutional bricolage
What distinguishes the Chinese practice of transferring policy ideas and institutions from examples observed elsewhere in the world can be described in two words: gradualism and eclecticism. In contradistinction to other (Post) Communist countries, actors operating in the Chinese political and socio-economic systems were not so taken aback by developments in 1989 that these completed collapsed. Nor were they overhauled in rigorous ways so as to r…
Introduction to the issue
Introduction to the issue: The state of the transport infrastructures in China
The pros and cons of Confucian values in transport infrastructure development in China
China’s economic growth and the high pace with which it plans and constructs its infrastructure networks have led to a renewed interest in its decision-making models and the Confucian values which are believed to underlie it. This article makes an attempt to show what these Confucian values entail, through what mechanisms they influence organisational and decision-making processes, what their positive and negative sides are, to what extent they p…
Establishing the conditions for effective transit-oriented development in China
Introducing public–private partnerships for metropolitan subways in China
Exposing weaknesses in interactive planning
Decision-making on transport infrastructure projects in the Netherlands has been facing a remarkable wind of change in recent years. In the 1990s, academics and practitioners in policy analysis, public policy and planning all claimed that the traditional policy analysis methods were obsolete, yet they have experienced a sudden resurgence since 2000 in the form of OEEI (Overview of Economic Effects of Infrastructure), a refined application of cost…
In the Moonlight. Waltz for Pianoforte
China's art of institutional bricolage
What distinguishes the Chinese practice of transferring policy ideas and institutions from examples observed elsewhere in the world can be described in two words: gradualism and eclecticism. In contradistinction to other (Post) Communist countries, actors operating in the Chinese political and socio-economic systems were not so taken aback by developments in 1989 that these completed collapsed. Nor were they overhauled in rigorous ways so as to r…
Introducing public–private partnerships for metropolitan subways in China
Establishing the conditions for effective transit-oriented development in China
The pros and cons of Confucian values in transport infrastructure development in China
China’s economic growth and the high pace with which it plans and constructs its infrastructure networks have led to a renewed interest in its decision-making models and the Confucian values which are believed to underlie it. This article makes an attempt to show what these Confucian values entail, through what mechanisms they influence organisational and decision-making processes, what their positive and negative sides are, to what extent they p…
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China
The development of high-speed railway (HSR) new towns in China represents a new phase of suburbanization and has had a significant impact on urban expansion, but not all of its mechanisms and drivers have been studied. This article aims to understand the booming development of HSR new towns in China through the theoretical lens of state entrepreneurialism. It dissects the entrepreneurial behaviors of the local state in a medium-sized city, which …
Trading off public values in High-Speed Rail development in China
In the Moonlight. Waltz for Pianoforte
Exposing weaknesses in interactive planning
Decision-making on transport infrastructure projects in the Netherlands has been facing a remarkable wind of change in recent years. In the 1990s, academics and practitioners in policy analysis, public policy and planning all claimed that the traditional policy analysis methods were obsolete, yet they have experienced a sudden resurgence since 2000 in the form of OEEI (Overview of Economic Effects of Infrastructure), a refined application of cost…
Introducing public–private partnerships for metropolitan subways in China
Introduction to the issue
Introduction to the issue: The state of the transport infrastructures in China
The pros and cons of Confucian values in transport infrastructure development in China
China’s economic growth and the high pace with which it plans and constructs its infrastructure networks have led to a renewed interest in its decision-making models and the Confucian values which are believed to underlie it. This article makes an attempt to show what these Confucian values entail, through what mechanisms they influence organisational and decision-making processes, what their positive and negative sides are, to what extent they p…
Establishing the conditions for effective transit-oriented development in China
Exploring the Relevance of the Eco-City Concept in China
While the original eco-city concept as developed by authors such as Richard Register is based on the ecological carrying capacity of the bio-region and has been fleshed out by others to include Western interpretations of good governance such as having a collaborative platform, constructive dialogue, a systems approach, and integrated policy-making, its practical implementation in China has taken a very different turn. Understanding this gap, the …
China's art of institutional bricolage
What distinguishes the Chinese practice of transferring policy ideas and institutions from examples observed elsewhere in the world can be described in two words: gradualism and eclecticism. In contradistinction to other (Post) Communist countries, actors operating in the Chinese political and socio-economic systems were not so taken aback by developments in 1989 that these completed collapsed. Nor were they overhauled in rigorous ways so as to r…
“Thinking a Lot” Among the Khwe of South Africa
"Thinking too much", and variations such as "thinking a lot", are common idioms of distress across the world. The contextual meaning of this idiom of distress in particular localities remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a systematic study of the content and cause, consequences, and social response and coping related to the local terms |x'an n|a te and |eu-ca n|a te, both translated as "thinking a lot", and was part of a larger ethnogra…
Greater Pearl River Delta
The Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) consists of 11 municipalities, nine of which are located in mainland China (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing, and Huizhou, jointly constituting the Pearl River Delta) and two are Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macao). All of them have undergone different historical trajectories, with Guangzhou, Macao, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen emerging as key cities with…
Trading off public values in High-Speed Rail development in China
Strategic Use of Analytical Information in Transport Planning in China
Theory on the strategic use of knowledge in planning large infrastructure projects is comparatively well-developed in the fields of public policy and urban/transport planning for Western democracies. But how policymakers make use of knowledge and what position policy analysts hold in non-Western countries still remains largely unknown territory in the literature. This article begins to explore this topic by studying two urban transport projects i…
Path Dependence in Financing Urban Infrastructure Development in China
In the past few decades, urban infrastructures in China have seen an enormous upgrade, and due to large-scale urbanization many more investments are due in the coming years. In order to supplement public funding, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and municipal bonds have recently grown popular in China. The introduction of this new policy does not occur in a void but should be understood as the path-dependent consequence of a historical evolution…
Input-Output Modeling for Smart City Development
While many national and local governments in the world are placing their bets on smart city development in countering challenges such as climate change, air pollution, and congestion, few know exactly how to develop them in practice. A high and rising number of publications has appeared addressing the concept of “smart city,” but not many address its implementation. This paper aims at a conceptual understanding of the smart city by describing its…
Unravelling Decision-Making Processes on Location Choices for High-Speed Railway Stations in China
Most High-Speed Railway (HSR) station areas in China can be found at the urban periphery or in suburban areas, a phenomenon that has often been criticised. While debate about the influence these location choices have on the economic and sustainable development of cities rages on, little attention has been paid to the decision-making processes leading to these locations. This paper investigates these processes by comparing HSR stations in three ci…
Rules for the Governance of Transport and Land use Integration in High-speed Railway Station Areas in China
The rapid high-speed railway development in China has faced many institutional challenges for the integrated development of transport and land use in station areas. This paper aims to gain insight into the institutional rules that structure the actors’ interactions and how they influence the integrated development in station areas. The Institutional Analysis and Development framework has been applied to a specific action situation, named Lanzhou …
Mapping key features and dimensions of the inclusive city
Many local governments engaging in sustainable urban development also have a growing interest in becoming inclusive too, brand themselves as such and develop policies to become inclusive cities. However, knowing what exactly this entails and how it can be achieved is not always quite straightforward and requires thorough theoretical and empirical exploration. Consequently, we present a systematic deconstruction of the inclusive city concept in or…
Dreaming the wrong dream
Sustainable urban transformation has become a mantra for Chinese cities. While most studies focus on sustainable urbanization in megacities, the far larger number of medium-sized cities is understudied, although the latter face more severe urban problems. This article develops a framework for examining policy change in sustainable urban development initiated at the central level and reactions, tensions, and implementation issues emerging at the l…
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China
The development of high-speed railway (HSR) new towns in China represents a new phase of suburbanization and has had a significant impact on urban expansion, but not all of its mechanisms and drivers have been studied. This article aims to understand the booming development of HSR new towns in China through the theoretical lens of state entrepreneurialism. It dissects the entrepreneurial behaviors of the local state in a medium-sized city, which …
The societal strength of transition
Realizing a circular economy (CE) has been widely recognized by practitioners and researchers as the key to the transition toward sustainability. Thus far the academic emphasis has been predominantly on economic and environmental aspects. However, the development and implementation of CE initiatives actually rely on extensive collaboration at the societal level. Hence, an understanding of how a more inclusive society can strengthen the transition…
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development
The asymmetric impacts of governmental grant funding and block funding on research quality in Chinese universities
Invisible hands in energy transitions
This paper focuses on the specific role of installers, a category of often overlooked diffusion intermediaries doing the actual implementation of energy transitions. We adopt an ecosystems perspective and aim to provide new knowledge on the installers' role in energy transitions, possible changes in this role, and the challenges installers face. Based on evidence from case studies in Gothenburg and Rotterdam, we first show how installers make or …
Political science (19 works) · Business (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · China (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works)