Ting Gong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ting Gong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ting |
| FAMILY NAME | Gong |
| SIGNATURE | GONG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9927-886X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Quality and reliability of pediatric pneumonia related short videos on mainstream platforms
The overall quality of video content on the three platforms Bilibili, TikTok, and Kwai is average, with low reliability, among which Bilibili's video quality and reliability are higher than the other two platforms. Meanwhile, videos published by medical professionals have better quality and higher reliability
Syndicated Police Corruption
The divergent effects of agent-controlled transparency on corruption latency
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness
This study investigates the intricate interplay between citizens’ trust in government institutions and their perceptions of institutional effectiveness. The two may have an endogenous relationship as they influence each other. Yet, since they stem from different sources and have distinct dynamics, their relationship may exhibit a directional bias in terms of causality: citizens’ trust may impact the perception of institutional effectiveness more …
The Effect of Servant Leadership on Work Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic is a tremendous crisis for public health, which also has a profound impact on business and social activities because many countries restrict travel and social gatherings to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Workers suffer from mental health problems including depression and anxiety due to the uncertain work environment. Hence, psychological resilience, a positive psychological response to these challenges, is essential to the su…
Unpacking Public Perceptions of Effectiveness in Anti-Corruption Agencies
Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) serve the important function of protecting society’s moral and legal standards. How does the public perceive their effectiveness? What variables influence these perceptions? To what extent does perceived effectiveness interact with the level of trust in a government institution? Using the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong as a case and based on a disaggregated approach, this study attemp…
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations
Grassroots bureaucrats are confronted with multiple accountability pressures which result in diverse or even conflicting expectations. Based on a survey experiment conducted in China, this study examines how bureaucrats respond to the divergent expectations of upper-level authorities and local citizens and how the intensity of such accountability influences those responses. The findings show that although bureaucrats tend to put more effort into …
Public administration
Public administration, context and innovation
Innovation in public administration (PA) has played a pivotal role in building good governance and has attracted significant attention in the academia. The literature on PA innovation is burgeoning; however, this article argues that there is ‘a missing link’ in the extant literature in that the impacts of variation in context on PA innovation have not been sufficiently investigated. This article elaborates the analytical perspectives on the influ…
Citizens' Confidence in Government Control of Corruption
Panacea or Pandora’s Box? The Dual Effect of Marketization on Corruption
The relationship between corruption and the market has long been contested. What are the effects of marketization on corruption? Would market competition reduce corruption as some argue? Or is marketization a Pandora’s Box for the spread of corruption as others suggest? Using China as a case and a dataset of 7,305 corruption-related court judgments, this paper seeks to address these questions. The findings indicate that marketization has a dual e…
Toward Multi-Level Governance in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations
This special issue argues for the applicability of the conceptual framework of Multi-Level Governance to the political–administrative regime of China, provided significant adaptations and qualifications are developed. The application of Multi-Level Governance to China enables to account for global influences as well as for the involvement of non-governmental actors in public policy making. More radically, we suggest in this introductory article t…
Sentencing Disparities in Corruption Cases in China
In China, the dramatic increase in the number of trials and convictions of corrupt officials leads to the question of how they were sentenced and by what criteria. The puzzle is, in particular, to what extent judicial discretion plays a role in sentencing corrupt officials and, if judicial discretion does exist, how the discretionary power is exercised. This article addresses these questions based on 7304 court judgments in 2014–15, which were ob…
The Formation and Impact of Isomorphic Pressures
In this article, we examine the impact of isomorphic pressures on institutional practices, a field that has not been adequately explored and explained. A critical issue, on which this article focuses, is the process by which isomorphic pressures translate into homogenous institutional practices across organizations. Drawing on the case of extravagant position‐related consumption in local governments in China, we identify the sources of isomorphic…
Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia
The Perception of Anti-corruption Efficacy in China
The impact of economic well-being on perceptions of anti-corruption performance
Corruption studies have suggested that corrupt politicians may win public support by providing substantial economic benefits to their citizens and that if a government works effectively to promote economic development, people may forgive its corruption problems. Thus, there is a positive relationship between citizens’ tolerance for political corruption and the economic benefits they receive from the government. Does economic well-being shape peop…
Corruption and marketization
The relationship between market liberalization and corruption has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. Conventional wisdom holds that increased economic marketization reduces corruption. China, however, provides evidence to the contrary; corruption has grown as its market‐oriented reforms progress. This paradoxical co‐development of the market and corruption begs the intriguing questions of how corruption has survived marketization and …
Managing Government Integrity under Hierarchy
In contrast to the early campaign style anti-corruption strategy based on nationwide uniformity, disparate local integrity initiatives and programs have proliferated in China in recent years. Local innovation in managing government integrity has been encouraged by the Center. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Guangdong, this article investigates the rationale behind such development and addresses the question of why the central leadership has …
Indicators and Implications of Zero Tolerance of Corruption
Preventing Corruption in Asia
Beyond enforcement: anticorruption reform as a problem of institutional design MELANIE MANION PART I Anticorruption reform in the People's Republic of China 2. China's war on corruption ANDREW H. WEDEMAN 3. Rent seeking under the licensing state: the institutional sources of economic corruption in China TAK-WING NGO 4. Cadre recruitment and corruption: what goes wrong? YAN SUN 5. The institutionalization of party discipline inspection in China: d…
Hard Rules and Soft Constraints
The initial paragraphs of this article outline the broad themes of this special section, drawing attention to changing perceptions and definitions of corruption and to corruption prevention practices in Greater China. The remainder of the article focuses on a particular theme: the relationship between conflicts of interest and corruption in both theoretical terms and in its application in mainland China. Conflicts of interest are conceptualized a…
Managed Social Innovation
In recent years, a model of ‘managed social innovation’ seems to be emerging in China where local governments take the lead in generating and implementing new citizen‐oriented products, processes, and services; the central government has embraced such local innovative activities as part of its high profile ‘harmonious society’ strategy. The aim is to not only accommodate but also promote and craft civil society initiatives. However, questions rem…
Central Mandates in Flux
This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our findings show that although the central pay mandates were issued under a number of conditions that favored, or should have even guaranteed, their smooth i…
Audit of tobacco retail outlets in Hangzhou, China
Tobacco advertisement in retail outlets is prevalent and the density of tobacco retail outlets is high in Hangzhou, China. Signs indicating 'no sales to minors' and tobacco warning signs are almost non-existent. These findings point to an urgent need for the enforcement of regulations on display of 'no sales to minors' and a new density standard for tobacco retail outlets based on protecting the public's health
Indicators and Implications of Zero Tolerance of Corruption
Dangerous collusion
Echoing changing social environments, corruption has grown in sophistication and complexity. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of collective corruption. Collective corruption, a distinctive form of social interaction among people dominated by individual calculations and unorganized interests, takes place when collaboration becomes a powerful, necessary weapon in pursuing private gains. The danger of collusion in corrupt ventures is that as cor…
Forms and Characteristics of China's Corruption in the 1990s
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that marketization is essential for reducing corruption, the sources of corruption are many and complex. This paper focuses on recent patterns of China's corruption to see how new and different, if not more, corruption has occurred despite the gradual shrinking of non-market elements in the economy. The further market reforms in the 1990s do not reduce corruption so much as they merely alter its characterist…
The Perception of Anti-corruption Efficacy in China
Corruption and local governance
This paper examines China's corruption in the context of its changing central–local relations. It contends that it is not so much decentralization as the incompleteness of power devolution that has contributed to the spreading of corruption in China. The incompleteness can be seen in the development of the double identity of local government as both a state political agent and a local economic principal. As state agents, local governments obtain …
Corruption and marketization
The relationship between market liberalization and corruption has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. Conventional wisdom holds that increased economic marketization reduces corruption. China, however, provides evidence to the contrary; corruption has grown as its market‐oriented reforms progress. This paradoxical co‐development of the market and corruption begs the intriguing questions of how corruption has survived marketization and …
Managed Social Innovation
In recent years, a model of ‘managed social innovation’ seems to be emerging in China where local governments take the lead in generating and implementing new citizen‐oriented products, processes, and services; the central government has embraced such local innovative activities as part of its high profile ‘harmonious society’ strategy. The aim is to not only accommodate but also promote and craft civil society initiatives. However, questions rem…
The Formation and Impact of Isomorphic Pressures
In this article, we examine the impact of isomorphic pressures on institutional practices, a field that has not been adequately explored and explained. A critical issue, on which this article focuses, is the process by which isomorphic pressures translate into homogenous institutional practices across organizations. Drawing on the case of extravagant position‐related consumption in local governments in China, we identify the sources of isomorphic…
Central Mandates in Flux
This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our findings show that although the central pay mandates were issued under a number of conditions that favored, or should have even guaranteed, their smooth i…
Managing Government Integrity under Hierarchy
In contrast to the early campaign style anti-corruption strategy based on nationwide uniformity, disparate local integrity initiatives and programs have proliferated in China in recent years. Local innovation in managing government integrity has been encouraged by the Center. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Guangdong, this article investigates the rationale behind such development and addresses the question of why the central leadership has …
Hard Rules and Soft Constraints
The initial paragraphs of this article outline the broad themes of this special section, drawing attention to changing perceptions and definitions of corruption and to corruption prevention practices in Greater China. The remainder of the article focuses on a particular theme: the relationship between conflicts of interest and corruption in both theoretical terms and in its application in mainland China. Conflicts of interest are conceptualized a…
The impact of economic well-being on perceptions of anti-corruption performance
Corruption studies have suggested that corrupt politicians may win public support by providing substantial economic benefits to their citizens and that if a government works effectively to promote economic development, people may forgive its corruption problems. Thus, there is a positive relationship between citizens’ tolerance for political corruption and the economic benefits they receive from the government. Does economic well-being shape peop…
Sentencing Disparities in Corruption Cases in China
In China, the dramatic increase in the number of trials and convictions of corrupt officials leads to the question of how they were sentenced and by what criteria. The puzzle is, in particular, to what extent judicial discretion plays a role in sentencing corrupt officials and, if judicial discretion does exist, how the discretionary power is exercised. This article addresses these questions based on 7304 court judgments in 2014–15, which were ob…
Citizens' Confidence in Government Control of Corruption
Panacea or Pandora’s Box? The Dual Effect of Marketization on Corruption
The relationship between corruption and the market has long been contested. What are the effects of marketization on corruption? Would market competition reduce corruption as some argue? Or is marketization a Pandora’s Box for the spread of corruption as others suggest? Using China as a case and a dataset of 7,305 corruption-related court judgments, this paper seeks to address these questions. The findings indicate that marketization has a dual e…
Toward Multi-Level Governance in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations
This special issue argues for the applicability of the conceptual framework of Multi-Level Governance to the political–administrative regime of China, provided significant adaptations and qualifications are developed. The application of Multi-Level Governance to China enables to account for global influences as well as for the involvement of non-governmental actors in public policy making. More radically, we suggest in this introductory article t…
Party versus market in post‐Mao China
In common with other communist regimes, post‐1949 China has deployed the organizational weapon of communist party penetration of all levels of administration and all work units, using the primary party organization (PPO) as an effective means of control. However, in the context of market‐based economic reform, itself induced by the top party leadership, the PPOs' ideological and political functions have become irrelevant, if not counter‐productiv…
Unpacking Public Perceptions of Effectiveness in Anti-Corruption Agencies
Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) serve the important function of protecting society’s moral and legal standards. How does the public perceive their effectiveness? What variables influence these perceptions? To what extent does perceived effectiveness interact with the level of trust in a government institution? Using the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong as a case and based on a disaggregated approach, this study attemp…
An ‘institutional turn’ in integrity management in China
Previous unsuccessful attempts at controlling corruption have led the Chinese government to change its strategy from campaign-style anti-corruption enforcement to institutionalized integrity management, referred to as an ‘institutional turn’ in this article. The ‘turn’ is characterized by rule-guided integrity building and manifests itself in the growth of various local integrity initiatives. Drawing on a particular case – the declaration of asse…
Audit for Accountability in China
This article argues against the conventional wisdom that accountability is the raison d'être of auditing activities. Audit, admittedly, is a part of the accountability architecture as it contributes to the financial health of a government and the effective management of public money. This does not mean, however, that audit necessarily generates accountability. China's experience with establishing a power audit regime shows that without enabling g…
Jumping into the Sea
China’s ongoing civil service reform threatens the positions, power, and privileges of millions of government officials. The rise of cadre entrepreneurs confirms that wealth is replacing office as the most important indicator of a person’s social status in China
Mission Impossible
Jumping into the Sea
China’s ongoing civil service reform threatens the positions, power, and privileges of millions of government officials. The rise of cadre entrepreneurs confirms that wealth is replacing office as the most important indicator of a person’s social status in China
Party versus market in post‐Mao China
In common with other communist regimes, post‐1949 China has deployed the organizational weapon of communist party penetration of all levels of administration and all work units, using the primary party organization (PPO) as an effective means of control. However, in the context of market‐based economic reform, itself induced by the top party leadership, the PPOs' ideological and political functions have become irrelevant, if not counter‐productiv…
Forms and Characteristics of China's Corruption in the 1990s
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that marketization is essential for reducing corruption, the sources of corruption are many and complex. This paper focuses on recent patterns of China's corruption to see how new and different, if not more, corruption has occurred despite the gradual shrinking of non-market elements in the economy. The further market reforms in the 1990s do not reduce corruption so much as they merely alter its characterist…
Dangerous collusion
Echoing changing social environments, corruption has grown in sophistication and complexity. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of collective corruption. Collective corruption, a distinctive form of social interaction among people dominated by individual calculations and unorganized interests, takes place when collaboration becomes a powerful, necessary weapon in pursuing private gains. The danger of collusion in corrupt ventures is that as cor…
Corruption and Market in Contemporary China . Yan Sun
Corruption and local governance
This paper examines China's corruption in the context of its changing central–local relations. It contends that it is not so much decentralization as the incompleteness of power devolution that has contributed to the spreading of corruption in China. The incompleteness can be seen in the development of the double identity of local government as both a state political agent and a local economic principal. As state agents, local governments obtain …
Institutional learning and adaptation
In recent decades, the Chinese state has been confronted by a dual challenge: to monitor and regulate the country's rapid socioeconomic development and, at the same time, to reform itself, as centrally planned state, in order to adapt to market‐driven changes. This has made it an imperative for the state to remake as well as strengthen its capacity. How has the Chinese state taken up the challenge? To what extent has state capacity been shaped or…
Audit for Accountability in China
This article argues against the conventional wisdom that accountability is the raison d'être of auditing activities. Audit, admittedly, is a part of the accountability architecture as it contributes to the financial health of a government and the effective management of public money. This does not mean, however, that audit necessarily generates accountability. China's experience with establishing a power audit regime shows that without enabling g…
Management Corruption in China's Industrial Restructuring
Management corruption, defined as the drain on state assets caused by corruption of public managers, is rampant in China. This study analyzes the rise of management corruption by examining the changing forms and characteristics of corruption in the context of China's industrial restructuring. It pays special attention to the typical asset-stripping strategies and tactics under certain institutional settings. By focusing on the new incentives and …
Audit of tobacco retail outlets in Hangzhou, China
Tobacco advertisement in retail outlets is prevalent and the density of tobacco retail outlets is high in Hangzhou, China. Signs indicating 'no sales to minors' and tobacco warning signs are almost non-existent. These findings point to an urgent need for the enforcement of regulations on display of 'no sales to minors' and a new density standard for tobacco retail outlets based on protecting the public's health
An ‘institutional turn’ in integrity management in China
Previous unsuccessful attempts at controlling corruption have led the Chinese government to change its strategy from campaign-style anti-corruption enforcement to institutionalized integrity management, referred to as an ‘institutional turn’ in this article. The ‘turn’ is characterized by rule-guided integrity building and manifests itself in the growth of various local integrity initiatives. Drawing on a particular case – the declaration of asse…
Preventing Corruption in Asia
Beyond enforcement: anticorruption reform as a problem of institutional design MELANIE MANION PART I Anticorruption reform in the People's Republic of China 2. China's war on corruption ANDREW H. WEDEMAN 3. Rent seeking under the licensing state: the institutional sources of economic corruption in China TAK-WING NGO 4. Cadre recruitment and corruption: what goes wrong? YAN SUN 5. The institutionalization of party discipline inspection in China: d…
Hard Rules and Soft Constraints
The initial paragraphs of this article outline the broad themes of this special section, drawing attention to changing perceptions and definitions of corruption and to corruption prevention practices in Greater China. The remainder of the article focuses on a particular theme: the relationship between conflicts of interest and corruption in both theoretical terms and in its application in mainland China. Conflicts of interest are conceptualized a…
Managed Social Innovation
In recent years, a model of ‘managed social innovation’ seems to be emerging in China where local governments take the lead in generating and implementing new citizen‐oriented products, processes, and services; the central government has embraced such local innovative activities as part of its high profile ‘harmonious society’ strategy. The aim is to not only accommodate but also promote and craft civil society initiatives. However, questions rem…
Central Mandates in Flux
This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our findings show that although the central pay mandates were issued under a number of conditions that favored, or should have even guaranteed, their smooth i…
Indicators and Implications of Zero Tolerance of Corruption
Managing Government Integrity under Hierarchy
In contrast to the early campaign style anti-corruption strategy based on nationwide uniformity, disparate local integrity initiatives and programs have proliferated in China in recent years. Local innovation in managing government integrity has been encouraged by the Center. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Guangdong, this article investigates the rationale behind such development and addresses the question of why the central leadership has …
The impact of economic well-being on perceptions of anti-corruption performance
Corruption studies have suggested that corrupt politicians may win public support by providing substantial economic benefits to their citizens and that if a government works effectively to promote economic development, people may forgive its corruption problems. Thus, there is a positive relationship between citizens’ tolerance for political corruption and the economic benefits they receive from the government. Does economic well-being shape peop…
Corruption and marketization
The relationship between market liberalization and corruption has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. Conventional wisdom holds that increased economic marketization reduces corruption. China, however, provides evidence to the contrary; corruption has grown as its market‐oriented reforms progress. This paradoxical co‐development of the market and corruption begs the intriguing questions of how corruption has survived marketization and …
Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia
The Perception of Anti-corruption Efficacy in China
The Formation and Impact of Isomorphic Pressures
In this article, we examine the impact of isomorphic pressures on institutional practices, a field that has not been adequately explored and explained. A critical issue, on which this article focuses, is the process by which isomorphic pressures translate into homogenous institutional practices across organizations. Drawing on the case of extravagant position‐related consumption in local governments in China, we identify the sources of isomorphic…
Sentencing Disparities in Corruption Cases in China
In China, the dramatic increase in the number of trials and convictions of corrupt officials leads to the question of how they were sentenced and by what criteria. The puzzle is, in particular, to what extent judicial discretion plays a role in sentencing corrupt officials and, if judicial discretion does exist, how the discretionary power is exercised. This article addresses these questions based on 7304 court judgments in 2014–15, which were ob…
Panacea or Pandora’s Box? The Dual Effect of Marketization on Corruption
The relationship between corruption and the market has long been contested. What are the effects of marketization on corruption? Would market competition reduce corruption as some argue? Or is marketization a Pandora’s Box for the spread of corruption as others suggest? Using China as a case and a dataset of 7,305 corruption-related court judgments, this paper seeks to address these questions. The findings indicate that marketization has a dual e…
Political science (34 works) · China (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (20 works) · Language change (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Public Administration (12 works)