Jing Vivian Zhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jing Vivian Zhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jing Vivian |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhan |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAN J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3054-0265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Does digital surveillance boost citizen compliance? Evidence from China
Authoritarian regimes increasingly deploy digital surveillance to monitor citizens, but how this affects citizen compliance remains understudied. We argue that, beyond repressing or deterring regime opponents, digital surveillance serves as an instrument of everyday governance that operates through psychological mechanisms rather than direct coercion. Specifically, pervasive monitoring fosters routine compliance with the regime through self‐regul…
Transforming global critical minerals governance
As states scramble, albeit at different speeds and with different degrees of conviction, to move to greener energy sources, the demand for critical minerals will inevitably increase over the coming decades. How critical minerals are governed is a crucial question at multiple levels. Here, we focus on the global level. We first consider the lessons from a previous global transformative initiative, namely the New International Economic Order (NIEO)…
When Does Surveillance Trigger Resistance? Public Response to Escalating Digital Control in China
Digital technologies have revolutionized authoritarian states’ capacity for social control through mass surveillance. However, how citizens perceive and react to escalating digital control remains understudied. This research proposes a risk-benefit analytical framework to explain how awareness of state control intentions shapes public reactions to digital surveillance in conjunction with surveillance intrusiveness. Using two independent survey ex…
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery
Post-Mao reforms ranging from de-collectivization to the abolition of agricultural taxes have eroded the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) control over the rural periphery. However, with an agenda to strengthen the CCP's all-around control over the economy and society, the Xi Jinping era saw a reversal of the long-term trend. We argue that Xi's high-profile anti-poverty campaign from 2015 to 2020 consisted of massive Party building attempts and ser…
Policy coordination and selective corruption control in China
In autocracies facing widespread corruption, the allocation of the scant attention available for fighting corruption strongly affects corruption control. Although research has found that authoritarian regimes tend to fight corruption selectively, it is unknown whether and how autocracies allocate attention across different policy areas to combat corruption. We propose that single‐party authoritarian regimes can steer anticorruption attention to t…
The Geopolitics of China's Overseas Port Investments
With China’s continuous rise and growing external commercial, strategic, and political endeavours, questions have arisen about the motivation, timing, and locale of China’s outreaching strategies. This research analyzes China’s overseas port investments through a comparative study of Greece and Pakistan, two important partners of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Adopting the neoclassical realist framework and drawing on expert interviews, offici…
The art of political ambiguity
China, similar to other countries with multi-level government structure, suffers serious information asymmetry between different levels of governments. Existing studies mostly focus on how the secret information possessed by lower-level governments undermines effective control by upper-level governments. However, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that higher authorities in China often intentionally issue ambivalent orders and withhol…
Sharing resource wealth for peace
Strategy for Fiscal Survival? Analysis of local extra-budgetary finance in China
Since the early 1980s, Chinese local governments have collected a significant amount of revenue outside the budgetary system. Fiscal shortage is commonly cited as the main reason for local extra-budgetary finance. However, a panel data analysis on provincial extra-budgetary practices reveals a different story. The findings suggest that extra-budgetary finance exists in China not as a strategy for local fiscal survival, but rather because local bu…
Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China
Chinese local governments widely resort to extra-budgetary exaction to finance themselves, which generates side effects that necessitate central intervention. Through statistical analysis, this paper finds that the central government intervenes only selectively, following a logic driven by economic development and political stability
Decentralizing China
China's post-Mao reforms have devolved significant economic and fiscal power from central to local governments. However, decentralization from above involves political risks: weakened central control and increased local discretion may allow local governments to engage in self-interested activities with negative externalities to other regions and even the whole nation. A crucial question thus arises: how can the national government enjoy the benef…
Undermining State Capacity
Since the late 1970s, China's fiscal system has facilitated the initiation and implementation of economic reforms and greatly contributed to China's remarkable economic achievements. However, weaknesses of the fiscal system have been exposed that have aroused concerns about the weakening of state capacity. While many have discussed the loss of central fiscal control over localities under decentralization and its negative consequences, not enough …
The art of political ambiguity
China, similar to other countries with multi-level government structure, suffers serious information asymmetry between different levels of governments. Existing studies mostly focus on how the secret information possessed by lower-level governments undermines effective control by upper-level governments. However, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that higher authorities in China often intentionally issue ambivalent orders and withhol…
Policy coordination and selective corruption control in China
In autocracies facing widespread corruption, the allocation of the scant attention available for fighting corruption strongly affects corruption control. Although research has found that authoritarian regimes tend to fight corruption selectively, it is unknown whether and how autocracies allocate attention across different policy areas to combat corruption. We propose that single‐party authoritarian regimes can steer anticorruption attention to t…
Strategy for Fiscal Survival? Analysis of local extra-budgetary finance in China
Since the early 1980s, Chinese local governments have collected a significant amount of revenue outside the budgetary system. Fiscal shortage is commonly cited as the main reason for local extra-budgetary finance. However, a panel data analysis on provincial extra-budgetary practices reveals a different story. The findings suggest that extra-budgetary finance exists in China not as a strategy for local fiscal survival, but rather because local bu…
Decentralizing China
China's post-Mao reforms have devolved significant economic and fiscal power from central to local governments. However, decentralization from above involves political risks: weakened central control and increased local discretion may allow local governments to engage in self-interested activities with negative externalities to other regions and even the whole nation. A crucial question thus arises: how can the national government enjoy the benef…
When Does Surveillance Trigger Resistance? Public Response to Escalating Digital Control in China
Digital technologies have revolutionized authoritarian states’ capacity for social control through mass surveillance. However, how citizens perceive and react to escalating digital control remains understudied. This research proposes a risk-benefit analytical framework to explain how awareness of state control intentions shapes public reactions to digital surveillance in conjunction with surveillance intrusiveness. Using two independent survey ex…
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery
Post-Mao reforms ranging from de-collectivization to the abolition of agricultural taxes have eroded the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) control over the rural periphery. However, with an agenda to strengthen the CCP's all-around control over the economy and society, the Xi Jinping era saw a reversal of the long-term trend. We argue that Xi's high-profile anti-poverty campaign from 2015 to 2020 consisted of massive Party building attempts and ser…
The Geopolitics of China's Overseas Port Investments
With China’s continuous rise and growing external commercial, strategic, and political endeavours, questions have arisen about the motivation, timing, and locale of China’s outreaching strategies. This research analyzes China’s overseas port investments through a comparative study of Greece and Pakistan, two important partners of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Adopting the neoclassical realist framework and drawing on expert interviews, offici…
Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China
Chinese local governments widely resort to extra-budgetary exaction to finance themselves, which generates side effects that necessitate central intervention. Through statistical analysis, this paper finds that the central government intervenes only selectively, following a logic driven by economic development and political stability
Decentralizing China
China's post-Mao reforms have devolved significant economic and fiscal power from central to local governments. However, decentralization from above involves political risks: weakened central control and increased local discretion may allow local governments to engage in self-interested activities with negative externalities to other regions and even the whole nation. A crucial question thus arises: how can the national government enjoy the benef…
Undermining State Capacity
Since the late 1970s, China's fiscal system has facilitated the initiation and implementation of economic reforms and greatly contributed to China's remarkable economic achievements. However, weaknesses of the fiscal system have been exposed that have aroused concerns about the weakening of state capacity. While many have discussed the loss of central fiscal control over localities under decentralization and its negative consequences, not enough …
Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China
Chinese local governments widely resort to extra-budgetary exaction to finance themselves, which generates side effects that necessitate central intervention. Through statistical analysis, this paper finds that the central government intervenes only selectively, following a logic driven by economic development and political stability
Strategy for Fiscal Survival? Analysis of local extra-budgetary finance in China
Since the early 1980s, Chinese local governments have collected a significant amount of revenue outside the budgetary system. Fiscal shortage is commonly cited as the main reason for local extra-budgetary finance. However, a panel data analysis on provincial extra-budgetary practices reveals a different story. The findings suggest that extra-budgetary finance exists in China not as a strategy for local fiscal survival, but rather because local bu…
Sharing resource wealth for peace
The art of political ambiguity
China, similar to other countries with multi-level government structure, suffers serious information asymmetry between different levels of governments. Existing studies mostly focus on how the secret information possessed by lower-level governments undermines effective control by upper-level governments. However, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that higher authorities in China often intentionally issue ambivalent orders and withhol…
The Geopolitics of China's Overseas Port Investments
With China’s continuous rise and growing external commercial, strategic, and political endeavours, questions have arisen about the motivation, timing, and locale of China’s outreaching strategies. This research analyzes China’s overseas port investments through a comparative study of Greece and Pakistan, two important partners of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Adopting the neoclassical realist framework and drawing on expert interviews, offici…
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery
Post-Mao reforms ranging from de-collectivization to the abolition of agricultural taxes have eroded the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) control over the rural periphery. However, with an agenda to strengthen the CCP's all-around control over the economy and society, the Xi Jinping era saw a reversal of the long-term trend. We argue that Xi's high-profile anti-poverty campaign from 2015 to 2020 consisted of massive Party building attempts and ser…
Policy coordination and selective corruption control in China
In autocracies facing widespread corruption, the allocation of the scant attention available for fighting corruption strongly affects corruption control. Although research has found that authoritarian regimes tend to fight corruption selectively, it is unknown whether and how autocracies allocate attention across different policy areas to combat corruption. We propose that single‐party authoritarian regimes can steer anticorruption attention to t…
When Does Surveillance Trigger Resistance? Public Response to Escalating Digital Control in China
Digital technologies have revolutionized authoritarian states’ capacity for social control through mass surveillance. However, how citizens perceive and react to escalating digital control remains understudied. This research proposes a risk-benefit analytical framework to explain how awareness of state control intentions shapes public reactions to digital surveillance in conjunction with surveillance intrusiveness. Using two independent survey ex…
Does digital surveillance boost citizen compliance? Evidence from China
Authoritarian regimes increasingly deploy digital surveillance to monitor citizens, but how this affects citizen compliance remains understudied. We argue that, beyond repressing or deterring regime opponents, digital surveillance serves as an instrument of everyday governance that operates through psychological mechanisms rather than direct coercion. Specifically, pervasive monitoring fosters routine compliance with the regime through self‐regul…
Transforming global critical minerals governance
As states scramble, albeit at different speeds and with different degrees of conviction, to move to greener energy sources, the demand for critical minerals will inevitably increase over the coming decades. How critical minerals are governed is a crucial question at multiple levels. Here, we focus on the global level. We first consider the lessons from a previous global transformative initiative, namely the New International Economic Order (NIEO)…
China (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economic system (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Government (linguistics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)