Jane Duckett
Biographic Data
| ID | 256693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Duckett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Duckett |
| SIGNATURE | DUCKETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5401-5350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Media and Policy Change
We know surprisingly little about when and how governments respond with policy change to the public’s opinions expressed on social media. Even studies of autocracies like China – the focus of much social media research – have concentrated on single cases or events. This article, based on a mixed method analysis of Chinese social media and policy datasets for the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first to explore in depth when and…
Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems
Lobbying, and its role in the policy process, has been extensively studied in democratic states, but much less is known about similar practices in authoritarian political systems. Although a few studies have identified lobbying in China, most have focused on big businesses and national policy making, and some have argued that it is unaffected by differences in political institutions. Our paper challenges this portrayal of business lobbying in aut…
Neoliberalism, Authoritarian Politics and Social Policy in China
This article explores the relationships among neoliberalism, social policy expansion and authoritarian politics in contemporary China. It argues that in the era of neoliberalism, rising new right and authoritarian governments, the Chinese Communist Party has sought to retain power by shifting politically to the right and promoting neoliberal-looking economic policies. These policies have raised average living standards but also increased insecuri…
The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa
This paper examines the roles that political leaders have played in the formulation and implementation of government initiatives to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, China, India and South Africa since about 2002. While research on social policy and welfare expansion in the industrialised world has largely ignored leaders, we stress the importance of politics and political agency, since political leaders often exercised decisive influence …
The politics of social policy
This introductory essay reviews the scholarship on the politics of social policy, and shows the contribution of the special issue to explaining expanded welfare commitments in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in the twenty-first century. Much literature on welfare expansion in lower- and middle-income contexts views it primarily as a policy corrective to the economic dislocations produced by global economic integration. This special issue fo…
Why do Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods? Policy Communities, External Shocks and Ideas in China’s Rural Social Policy Making
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent rebellion. This essay shows that the ‘threat of rebellion’ alone cannot explain Chinese party-state policies to extend public goods to rural residents in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of policy making, it argues that China’s one-party regime extended public goods to the rural population under the influence of idea…
Explaining public satisfaction with health‐care systems
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with health-care system satisfaction in China. CONTEXT: Recent research suggests that socio-demographic characteristics, self-reported health, income and insurance, ideological beliefs, health-care utilization, media use and perceptions of services may affect health-care system satisfaction, but the relative importance of these factors is poorly understood. New data from China offer the opportunity to tes…
Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China
How trust affects health-care utilization is not well-understood, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This article focuses on China, a middle-income country where low trust in health-care settings has become a prominent issue, but actual levels of distrust and their implications for utilization are unknown. We conducted a nationally representative survey of the Chinese population (November 2012 to January 2013), which resulted in a sa…
The logic of market reform or the politics of retrenchment
I am grateful to the editor for allowing me a reply to the review of my book, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011), that appeared in China Information (26(1), 2012: 118–19). That review contained errors and inconsistencies. It also failed to convey or engage with my book’s central argument. Indeed it simply reasserted one of the core arguments that my book sets out to cha…
Extending political participation in China
Authoritarian political systems are portrayed as offering few opportunities for citizens to participate in politics – particularly in the policy process. This paper’s contribution is to set out new mechanisms that enable Chinese citizens to evaluate government performance, contribute to decision-making, shape policy agendas and feed back on implementation. Based on fieldwork in the city of Hangzhou, we argue that the local party-state orchestrate…
Populism versus Neoliberalism
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
Tackling unemployment in China
This paper considers China's state capacity and changing governance as revealed through its policies to tackle unemployment. Despite high levels of growth, economic restructuring has resulted in rising unemployment over the last decade. The Chinese state has been able to manage job losses from state enterprises, demonstrating some state capacity in relation to this sector and some persistent command economy governance mechanisms. However both des…
Introduction
Bureaucratic Interests and Institutions in the Making of China'S Socialy Policy
Explanations of China's post-Mao social policy have concentrated on the political, social, fiscal, and economic goals of the state and its governing elite. In a study of urban health insurance policy, this article argues that bureaucratic interests and institutions within the Chinese state are also influenced. This article first shows how bureaucratic interests within the central government have influenced the adoption of a new national social he…
China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
Bureaucrats in Business, Chinese-Style
Political Interests and the Implementation of China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform
During the 1980s and 1990s China has been experimenting with reform of its health insurance system. Based on a study of experimental schemes in several cities in eastern China in the late 1990s, this paper shows that the schemes’ main problems are due to the vested interests of enterprises, hospitals, officials, and other beneficiaries of the pre‐reform system. Reform policy has been implemented slowly, and local health insurance schemes have (1)…
The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China
As market reform has progressed in China, state bureaux have adapted and become entrepreneurial. This contradicts expectations that states will either simply retreat in the face of encroaching markets to play a minimal role in the economy, or obstruct market‐oriented change through bureaucratic conservatism or rent‐seeking. This paper describes the state entrepreneurialism that has appeared in the Chinese city of Tianjin in the early 1990s and ex…
Bureaucrats in Business, Chinese-Style
Why do Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods? Policy Communities, External Shocks and Ideas in China’s Rural Social Policy Making
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent rebellion. This essay shows that the ‘threat of rebellion’ alone cannot explain Chinese party-state policies to extend public goods to rural residents in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of policy making, it argues that China’s one-party regime extended public goods to the rural population under the influence of idea…
The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China
As market reform has progressed in China, state bureaux have adapted and become entrepreneurial. This contradicts expectations that states will either simply retreat in the face of encroaching markets to play a minimal role in the economy, or obstruct market‐oriented change through bureaucratic conservatism or rent‐seeking. This paper describes the state entrepreneurialism that has appeared in the Chinese city of Tianjin in the early 1990s and ex…
Neoliberalism, Authoritarian Politics and Social Policy in China
This article explores the relationships among neoliberalism, social policy expansion and authoritarian politics in contemporary China. It argues that in the era of neoliberalism, rising new right and authoritarian governments, the Chinese Communist Party has sought to retain power by shifting politically to the right and promoting neoliberal-looking economic policies. These policies have raised average living standards but also increased insecuri…
The politics of social policy
This introductory essay reviews the scholarship on the politics of social policy, and shows the contribution of the special issue to explaining expanded welfare commitments in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in the twenty-first century. Much literature on welfare expansion in lower- and middle-income contexts views it primarily as a policy corrective to the economic dislocations produced by global economic integration. This special issue fo…
Tackling unemployment in China
This paper considers China's state capacity and changing governance as revealed through its policies to tackle unemployment. Despite high levels of growth, economic restructuring has resulted in rising unemployment over the last decade. The Chinese state has been able to manage job losses from state enterprises, demonstrating some state capacity in relation to this sector and some persistent command economy governance mechanisms. However both des…
Political Interests and the Implementation of China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform
During the 1980s and 1990s China has been experimenting with reform of its health insurance system. Based on a study of experimental schemes in several cities in eastern China in the late 1990s, this paper shows that the schemes’ main problems are due to the vested interests of enterprises, hospitals, officials, and other beneficiaries of the pre‐reform system. Reform policy has been implemented slowly, and local health insurance schemes have (1)…
Extending political participation in China
Authoritarian political systems are portrayed as offering few opportunities for citizens to participate in politics – particularly in the policy process. This paper’s contribution is to set out new mechanisms that enable Chinese citizens to evaluate government performance, contribute to decision-making, shape policy agendas and feed back on implementation. Based on fieldwork in the city of Hangzhou, we argue that the local party-state orchestrate…
Populism versus Neoliberalism
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa
This paper examines the roles that political leaders have played in the formulation and implementation of government initiatives to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, China, India and South Africa since about 2002. While research on social policy and welfare expansion in the industrialised world has largely ignored leaders, we stress the importance of politics and political agency, since political leaders often exercised decisive influence …
China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems
Lobbying, and its role in the policy process, has been extensively studied in democratic states, but much less is known about similar practices in authoritarian political systems. Although a few studies have identified lobbying in China, most have focused on big businesses and national policy making, and some have argued that it is unaffected by differences in political institutions. Our paper challenges this portrayal of business lobbying in aut…
Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China
How trust affects health-care utilization is not well-understood, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This article focuses on China, a middle-income country where low trust in health-care settings has become a prominent issue, but actual levels of distrust and their implications for utilization are unknown. We conducted a nationally representative survey of the Chinese population (November 2012 to January 2013), which resulted in a sa…
The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China
As market reform has progressed in China, state bureaux have adapted and become entrepreneurial. This contradicts expectations that states will either simply retreat in the face of encroaching markets to play a minimal role in the economy, or obstruct market‐oriented change through bureaucratic conservatism or rent‐seeking. This paper describes the state entrepreneurialism that has appeared in the Chinese city of Tianjin in the early 1990s and ex…
Bureaucrats in Business, Chinese-Style
Political Interests and the Implementation of China’s Urban Health Insurance Reform
During the 1980s and 1990s China has been experimenting with reform of its health insurance system. Based on a study of experimental schemes in several cities in eastern China in the late 1990s, this paper shows that the schemes’ main problems are due to the vested interests of enterprises, hospitals, officials, and other beneficiaries of the pre‐reform system. Reform policy has been implemented slowly, and local health insurance schemes have (1)…
Bureaucratic Interests and Institutions in the Making of China'S Socialy Policy
Explanations of China's post-Mao social policy have concentrated on the political, social, fiscal, and economic goals of the state and its governing elite. In a study of urban health insurance policy, this article argues that bureaucratic interests and institutions within the Chinese state are also influenced. This article first shows how bureaucratic interests within the central government have influenced the adoption of a new national social he…
China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition
China has undergone market transition like the countries of central Europe, but under continued one-party rule rather than democratic politics. What have been the consequences for its social security system? Like the post-communist central European states, China has introduced unemployment insurance and new means-tested poverty assistance, and has reduced state enterprises’ role in delivering social security. It has also reformed pensions and hea…
Introduction
Tackling unemployment in China
This paper considers China's state capacity and changing governance as revealed through its policies to tackle unemployment. Despite high levels of growth, economic restructuring has resulted in rising unemployment over the last decade. The Chinese state has been able to manage job losses from state enterprises, demonstrating some state capacity in relation to this sector and some persistent command economy governance mechanisms. However both des…
Extending political participation in China
Authoritarian political systems are portrayed as offering few opportunities for citizens to participate in politics – particularly in the policy process. This paper’s contribution is to set out new mechanisms that enable Chinese citizens to evaluate government performance, contribute to decision-making, shape policy agendas and feed back on implementation. Based on fieldwork in the city of Hangzhou, we argue that the local party-state orchestrate…
Populism versus Neoliberalism
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
The logic of market reform or the politics of retrenchment
I am grateful to the editor for allowing me a reply to the review of my book, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011), that appeared in China Information (26(1), 2012: 118–19). That review contained errors and inconsistencies. It also failed to convey or engage with my book’s central argument. Indeed it simply reasserted one of the core arguments that my book sets out to cha…
Explaining public satisfaction with health‐care systems
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with health-care system satisfaction in China. CONTEXT: Recent research suggests that socio-demographic characteristics, self-reported health, income and insurance, ideological beliefs, health-care utilization, media use and perceptions of services may affect health-care system satisfaction, but the relative importance of these factors is poorly understood. New data from China offer the opportunity to tes…
Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China
How trust affects health-care utilization is not well-understood, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This article focuses on China, a middle-income country where low trust in health-care settings has become a prominent issue, but actual levels of distrust and their implications for utilization are unknown. We conducted a nationally representative survey of the Chinese population (November 2012 to January 2013), which resulted in a sa…
The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa
This paper examines the roles that political leaders have played in the formulation and implementation of government initiatives to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, China, India and South Africa since about 2002. While research on social policy and welfare expansion in the industrialised world has largely ignored leaders, we stress the importance of politics and political agency, since political leaders often exercised decisive influence …
The politics of social policy
This introductory essay reviews the scholarship on the politics of social policy, and shows the contribution of the special issue to explaining expanded welfare commitments in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in the twenty-first century. Much literature on welfare expansion in lower- and middle-income contexts views it primarily as a policy corrective to the economic dislocations produced by global economic integration. This special issue fo…
Why do Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods? Policy Communities, External Shocks and Ideas in China’s Rural Social Policy Making
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent rebellion. This essay shows that the ‘threat of rebellion’ alone cannot explain Chinese party-state policies to extend public goods to rural residents in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of policy making, it argues that China’s one-party regime extended public goods to the rural population under the influence of idea…
Neoliberalism, Authoritarian Politics and Social Policy in China
This article explores the relationships among neoliberalism, social policy expansion and authoritarian politics in contemporary China. It argues that in the era of neoliberalism, rising new right and authoritarian governments, the Chinese Communist Party has sought to retain power by shifting politically to the right and promoting neoliberal-looking economic policies. These policies have raised average living standards but also increased insecuri…
Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems
Lobbying, and its role in the policy process, has been extensively studied in democratic states, but much less is known about similar practices in authoritarian political systems. Although a few studies have identified lobbying in China, most have focused on big businesses and national policy making, and some have argued that it is unaffected by differences in political institutions. Our paper challenges this portrayal of business lobbying in aut…
Social Media and Policy Change
We know surprisingly little about when and how governments respond with policy change to the public’s opinions expressed on social media. Even studies of autocracies like China – the focus of much social media research – have concentrated on single cases or events. This article, based on a mixed method analysis of Chinese social media and policy datasets for the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first to explore in depth when and…
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