Gaifang Xin
Biographic Data
| ID | 226140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaifang Xin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaifang |
| FAMILY NAME | Xin |
| SIGNATURE | XIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7677-3278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The impact of timebanking on volunteering behaviors
Global declines in formal volunteering have prompted interest in alternative mechanisms like timebanking. This study investigates the impact of timebanking on future volunteering intentions using a between-subjects randomized survey experiment (n= 361) in Shanghai, China. Participants exposed to a timebanking vignette were nearly three times more likely to express high-frequency volunteering intentions than the control group. This positive effect…
Health and Climate Risks: Can Policy Attention Persistence Enhance the Resilience of Aging Societies
The allocation of policy attention serves as the foundational engine of government action. However, the contemporary risk societies render governance resilience increasingly dependent on its vital but under‐theorized temporal dimension: persistence. This study interrogates the conditions under which persistent policy attention becomes a prerequisite for effective governance. Integrating advanced machine learning‐based (Guided LDA) text analysis o…
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment
Studies of international investment treaties have debated whether these agreements independently increase foreign investment flows. This article contributes to the debate by contextualizing the impact of bilateral investment treaties on post-coup domestic political environments. We argue that these treaties enable capital-receiving countries to live up to their commitments of investment protection and promote foreign investment when signatories’ …
Making the people’s voice heard: Pathways of E-participative governance in China
The widespread use of information technology has reshaped the public sphere in the digital age, turning various online platforms into novel channels for civic participation. This article delves into the dynamics and political ramifications of China’s digital participatory policymaking from the perspective of state-society interactions. Based on extensive fieldwork spanning over three years in multiple localities across China, we identify and comp…
Making agile governance work: The community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for agile governance to effectively address and prevent future global crises. Scholars have examined China's grid system and its application by local governments in controlling the spread of COVID-19. Our research supports these findings, and we further argue that the grid system enhances responsiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency in governance, thereby benefiting both the government and its citizen…
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China
Information asymmetry is prevalent in the vertical bureaucratic structures of unitary systems. Drawing upon the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and the literature on information politics, this paper investigates the formation of the vertical ICA dilemma and the motivations underlying the collaborative mechanisms to address information asymmetry within the hierarchical bureaucratic structures of the Chinese government. Taking the T…
Decentralized governance and collective action dilemma: Sub‐national governments' responses to Covid‐19 in China
While the Chinese government's responses to COVID‐19 since its outbreak have been widely discussed, scant attention has been paid to the cross‐regional variation in China in handling the pandemic in the early stage. This article adopts and synthesizes the theory of regionally decentralized governance and the institutional collective action dilemma framework to offer a novel analytical characterization of the pattern of sub‐national governments' c…
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror
It is often argued that employees satisfied with their jobs perform better, which in turn will lead customers to be more satisfied. Private sector studies have found support for this “satisfaction mirror” hypothesis. Our study is the first to provide direct, individual-level evidence of its existence in the public sector. We conducted an original survey of village officials in small, rural Chinese villages, and local citizens interacting with the…
The mixed effects of e‐participation on the dynamic of trust in government: Evidence from Cameroon
Regular participation of citizens in governance and policy processes has been considered critical to the functioning of the democratic model of governance. While recent studies have documented the emergence and evolution of participatory governance in Western countries, little is known about the influence of citizens’ participation on e‐governance in African countries. Leveraging an original survey conducted in Cameroon on citizens’ participation…
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)
Faced with the burgeoning NGOs in China in recent years, the Party-state has adopted a model of adaptive party building to maintain its presence and strengthen its grip over the evolving social sphere. Based on a two-year field work in Shanghai, this article finds that the new model is characterized by the party’s rigidity in the principle of social penetration and an array of flexible strategies to facilitate its entry. While promoting the party…
Path intelligent optimization for dense crowd emergency evacuation in heritage buildings
Participatory policy making under authoritarianism: The pathways of local budgetary reform in the People’s Republic of China
Citizen participation in policy making is essential in democracies, but there is much less understanding of the process and substance of it in non-democratic states. Taking local budgetary process as an example, this article compares three pathways of participatory reform undertaken by the communist regime in China, namely the representative pathway, the consultative pathway and the transparency pathway. All three are initiated and administered b…
Reforming governance under authoritarianism: Motivations and pathways of local participatory reform in the People’s Republic of China
Many authoritarian regimes use participatory political reform to maintain control over the societies under their rule and survive global waves of democratization. Recent studies of transitional governance have underscored the importance and intricacy of institutional reform; however, no consensus has been reached on an explanation of the dynamism that shapes institutional reforms under non-democratic systems. Why do authoritarian apparatchiks ref…
Participatory policy making under authoritarianism: The pathways of local budgetary reform in the People’s Republic of China
Citizen participation in policy making is essential in democracies, but there is much less understanding of the process and substance of it in non-democratic states. Taking local budgetary process as an example, this article compares three pathways of participatory reform undertaken by the communist regime in China, namely the representative pathway, the consultative pathway and the transparency pathway. All three are initiated and administered b…
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror
It is often argued that employees satisfied with their jobs perform better, which in turn will lead customers to be more satisfied. Private sector studies have found support for this “satisfaction mirror” hypothesis. Our study is the first to provide direct, individual-level evidence of its existence in the public sector. We conducted an original survey of village officials in small, rural Chinese villages, and local citizens interacting with the…
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)
Faced with the burgeoning NGOs in China in recent years, the Party-state has adopted a model of adaptive party building to maintain its presence and strengthen its grip over the evolving social sphere. Based on a two-year field work in Shanghai, this article finds that the new model is characterized by the party’s rigidity in the principle of social penetration and an array of flexible strategies to facilitate its entry. While promoting the party…
Reforming governance under authoritarianism: Motivations and pathways of local participatory reform in the People’s Republic of China
Many authoritarian regimes use participatory political reform to maintain control over the societies under their rule and survive global waves of democratization. Recent studies of transitional governance have underscored the importance and intricacy of institutional reform; however, no consensus has been reached on an explanation of the dynamism that shapes institutional reforms under non-democratic systems. Why do authoritarian apparatchiks ref…
Making the people’s voice heard: Pathways of E-participative governance in China
The widespread use of information technology has reshaped the public sphere in the digital age, turning various online platforms into novel channels for civic participation. This article delves into the dynamics and political ramifications of China’s digital participatory policymaking from the perspective of state-society interactions. Based on extensive fieldwork spanning over three years in multiple localities across China, we identify and comp…
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China
Information asymmetry is prevalent in the vertical bureaucratic structures of unitary systems. Drawing upon the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and the literature on information politics, this paper investigates the formation of the vertical ICA dilemma and the motivations underlying the collaborative mechanisms to address information asymmetry within the hierarchical bureaucratic structures of the Chinese government. Taking the T…
The mixed effects of e‐participation on the dynamic of trust in government: Evidence from Cameroon
Regular participation of citizens in governance and policy processes has been considered critical to the functioning of the democratic model of governance. While recent studies have documented the emergence and evolution of participatory governance in Western countries, little is known about the influence of citizens’ participation on e‐governance in African countries. Leveraging an original survey conducted in Cameroon on citizens’ participation…
Making agile governance work: The community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for agile governance to effectively address and prevent future global crises. Scholars have examined China's grid system and its application by local governments in controlling the spread of COVID-19. Our research supports these findings, and we further argue that the grid system enhances responsiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency in governance, thereby benefiting both the government and its citizen…
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment
Studies of international investment treaties have debated whether these agreements independently increase foreign investment flows. This article contributes to the debate by contextualizing the impact of bilateral investment treaties on post-coup domestic political environments. We argue that these treaties enable capital-receiving countries to live up to their commitments of investment protection and promote foreign investment when signatories’ …
Path intelligent optimization for dense crowd emergency evacuation in heritage buildings
Participatory policy making under authoritarianism: The pathways of local budgetary reform in the People’s Republic of China
Citizen participation in policy making is essential in democracies, but there is much less understanding of the process and substance of it in non-democratic states. Taking local budgetary process as an example, this article compares three pathways of participatory reform undertaken by the communist regime in China, namely the representative pathway, the consultative pathway and the transparency pathway. All three are initiated and administered b…
Reforming governance under authoritarianism: Motivations and pathways of local participatory reform in the People’s Republic of China
Many authoritarian regimes use participatory political reform to maintain control over the societies under their rule and survive global waves of democratization. Recent studies of transitional governance have underscored the importance and intricacy of institutional reform; however, no consensus has been reached on an explanation of the dynamism that shapes institutional reforms under non-democratic systems. Why do authoritarian apparatchiks ref…
Path intelligent optimization for dense crowd emergency evacuation in heritage buildings
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)
Faced with the burgeoning NGOs in China in recent years, the Party-state has adopted a model of adaptive party building to maintain its presence and strengthen its grip over the evolving social sphere. Based on a two-year field work in Shanghai, this article finds that the new model is characterized by the party’s rigidity in the principle of social penetration and an array of flexible strategies to facilitate its entry. While promoting the party…
The mixed effects of e‐participation on the dynamic of trust in government: Evidence from Cameroon
Regular participation of citizens in governance and policy processes has been considered critical to the functioning of the democratic model of governance. While recent studies have documented the emergence and evolution of participatory governance in Western countries, little is known about the influence of citizens’ participation on e‐governance in African countries. Leveraging an original survey conducted in Cameroon on citizens’ participation…
To Get Rich is Glorious: Private Entrepreneurs in China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign
Decentralized governance and collective action dilemma: Sub‐national governments' responses to Covid‐19 in China
While the Chinese government's responses to COVID‐19 since its outbreak have been widely discussed, scant attention has been paid to the cross‐regional variation in China in handling the pandemic in the early stage. This article adopts and synthesizes the theory of regionally decentralized governance and the institutional collective action dilemma framework to offer a novel analytical characterization of the pattern of sub‐national governments' c…
Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror
It is often argued that employees satisfied with their jobs perform better, which in turn will lead customers to be more satisfied. Private sector studies have found support for this “satisfaction mirror” hypothesis. Our study is the first to provide direct, individual-level evidence of its existence in the public sector. We conducted an original survey of village officials in small, rural Chinese villages, and local citizens interacting with the…
Making the people’s voice heard: Pathways of E-participative governance in China
The widespread use of information technology has reshaped the public sphere in the digital age, turning various online platforms into novel channels for civic participation. This article delves into the dynamics and political ramifications of China’s digital participatory policymaking from the perspective of state-society interactions. Based on extensive fieldwork spanning over three years in multiple localities across China, we identify and comp…
Making agile governance work: The community grid as a ‘safety valve’ institution during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for agile governance to effectively address and prevent future global crises. Scholars have examined China's grid system and its application by local governments in controlling the spread of COVID-19. Our research supports these findings, and we further argue that the grid system enhances responsiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency in governance, thereby benefiting both the government and its citizen…
Information asymmetry and vertical collective action dilemma: The case of targeted poverty alleviation in China
Information asymmetry is prevalent in the vertical bureaucratic structures of unitary systems. Drawing upon the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and the literature on information politics, this paper investigates the formation of the vertical ICA dilemma and the motivations underlying the collaborative mechanisms to address information asymmetry within the hierarchical bureaucratic structures of the Chinese government. Taking the T…
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment
Studies of international investment treaties have debated whether these agreements independently increase foreign investment flows. This article contributes to the debate by contextualizing the impact of bilateral investment treaties on post-coup domestic political environments. We argue that these treaties enable capital-receiving countries to live up to their commitments of investment protection and promote foreign investment when signatories’ …
The impact of timebanking on volunteering behaviors
Global declines in formal volunteering have prompted interest in alternative mechanisms like timebanking. This study investigates the impact of timebanking on future volunteering intentions using a between-subjects randomized survey experiment (n= 361) in Shanghai, China. Participants exposed to a timebanking vignette were nearly three times more likely to express high-frequency volunteering intentions than the control group. This positive effect…
Health and Climate Risks: Can Policy Attention Persistence Enhance the Resilience of Aging Societies
The allocation of policy attention serves as the foundational engine of government action. However, the contemporary risk societies render governance resilience increasingly dependent on its vital but under‐theorized temporal dimension: persistence. This study interrogates the conditions under which persistent policy attention becomes a prerequisite for effective governance. Integrating advanced machine learning‐based (Guided LDA) text analysis o…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · China (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)