William Hurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Hurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurst |
| SIGNATURE | HURST W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5072-6262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Green loyalty? Unveiling consumer preferences in sustainable temporary loyalty programs
Almost every food retailer offers them – temporary loyalty programs (TLPs). TLPs aim to enhance customer loyalty by offering enticing, product-based incentives. However, an emerging concern arises regarding the sustainability impact of these programs, and consumers have started questioning the sustainability of TLPs offered by retailers. This concern is primarily driven by the mounting consumer interest and awareness surrounding sustainability, r…
Financing sustainable farming: The role of trust in the adoption of fintech by farmers
The (digital) transition to sustainable agricultural production practices requires substantial capital that is accessible to farmers implementing system changes. FinTech solutions leveraging AI-driven big data analytics can enhance capital access through data-driven loan criteria, offering an alternative to standardised, traditional banking approaches. Yet, despite these advantages, adoption remains low due to limited trust in these technologies.…
Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation
A Toolkit for Co-Designing towards Community-Based Active Ageing: Lessons Learned during Development
It is increasingly recognized that community-based interventions for active ageing are more lasting and effective, yet the tools and methods for developing these interventions are lacking. This study investigates how to co-design community-based active ageing with older adults via the development of a toolkit to support this goal. Rapid reviews were conducted to understand (i) the effective behavioural change techniques for older adults, (ii) how…
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State
Kyle A. Jaros, China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development
Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 194…
Elizabeth J. Perry, Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition
Chinese law and governance: Moving Beyond Responsive Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law
CONTACT William Hurst [email protected] Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
China's Phantom Urbanisation and the Pathology of Ghost Cities
This article examines the production of China's "ghost cities" and constant urban expansion to challenge the dominant conceptual narrative of rural-to-urban migration as the driver of urbanisation. It argues that behind China's "miraculous" urbanisation story is a powerful ideological commitment to urban growth as the "royal road" to modernity and assessment of political performance. Local governments have a wide-ranging "tool-kit" for pursuing u…
Law and Development of Middle-Income Countries: Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap
In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called middle-income trap? This interdisciplinary volume addresses the special challenges that middle-income countries confront from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. It is the first volume that addresses law and dev…
Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation
Based on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we argue that: 1) autonomous or quasi-independent organizations play a very important role in collective action, but one that is perhaps different from what other scholars have emphasized; 2) the presence of such groups may well foster good governance and help contain the scale of contention, …
Indonesia's Courts of Industrial Relations: Context, Structure, and a Look at Surabaya Cases
How should we approach the study of the various special courts that have proliferated in Indonesia since the fall of the New Order? In particular, can we see the new special industrial relations courts as successfully having judicialized labor rights? Building on a thorough examination of their historical antecedents, legal origins and structure, this article focuses on a careful review of cases brought before the Surabaya industrial relations co…
Recession and the Politics of Class and Production in China
The article begins by analyzing the historical evolution of “class ideology” in China, especially since 1978. Next, it turns to the concrete effects of the recent and ongoing recession on the Chinese working class. It finds that the crisis affected rural–urban migrants far more substantially than it did workers in the formal (mostly state-owned) urban sector. While this situation presents numerous challenges (for the central state, a crisis of le…
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000 . Dorothy J. Solinger
The Chinese Worker after Socialism
While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of one such group - 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred, how workers are …
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality . Vivienne Shue , Christine Wong
The City as the Focus: The Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics
In the past, the study of cities too often played a supporting role in the field of Chinese politics. In recent years, scholars have increasingly placed various aspects of urban politics in the analytical spotlight. This article begins by outlining why urban politics is important in the study of China and ends by discussing how a discrete focus on urban politics can promote the integration of China into broader debates in political science. In be…
Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: The importance of regional political economy
China's Contentious Pensioners
China has seen a surge of working class protests in recent years. Many of these have involved retirees. Pensioners are found to be particularly prone to take to the streets because their grievances are intense and are widely perceived to be legitimate, they are “biographically available,” and they often feel nostalgic for aspects of the Maoist past. Their actions also display elements of moral economic resistance. This article draws on the availa…
China's Phantom Urbanisation and the Pathology of Ghost Cities
This article examines the production of China's "ghost cities" and constant urban expansion to challenge the dominant conceptual narrative of rural-to-urban migration as the driver of urbanisation. It argues that behind China's "miraculous" urbanisation story is a powerful ideological commitment to urban growth as the "royal road" to modernity and assessment of political performance. Local governments have a wide-ranging "tool-kit" for pursuing u…
Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: The importance of regional political economy
Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation
Based on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we argue that: 1) autonomous or quasi-independent organizations play a very important role in collective action, but one that is perhaps different from what other scholars have emphasized; 2) the presence of such groups may well foster good governance and help contain the scale of contention, …
The City as the Focus: The Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics
In the past, the study of cities too often played a supporting role in the field of Chinese politics. In recent years, scholars have increasingly placed various aspects of urban politics in the analytical spotlight. This article begins by outlining why urban politics is important in the study of China and ends by discussing how a discrete focus on urban politics can promote the integration of China into broader debates in political science. In be…
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State
Chinese law and governance: Moving Beyond Responsive Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law
CONTACT William Hurst [email protected] Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Indonesia's Courts of Industrial Relations: Context, Structure, and a Look at Surabaya Cases
How should we approach the study of the various special courts that have proliferated in Indonesia since the fall of the New Order? In particular, can we see the new special industrial relations courts as successfully having judicialized labor rights? Building on a thorough examination of their historical antecedents, legal origins and structure, this article focuses on a careful review of cases brought before the Surabaya industrial relations co…
Recession and the Politics of Class and Production in China
The article begins by analyzing the historical evolution of “class ideology” in China, especially since 1978. Next, it turns to the concrete effects of the recent and ongoing recession on the Chinese working class. It finds that the crisis affected rural–urban migrants far more substantially than it did workers in the formal (mostly state-owned) urban sector. While this situation presents numerous challenges (for the central state, a crisis of le…
China's Contentious Pensioners
China has seen a surge of working class protests in recent years. Many of these have involved retirees. Pensioners are found to be particularly prone to take to the streets because their grievances are intense and are widely perceived to be legitimate, they are “biographically available,” and they often feel nostalgic for aspects of the Maoist past. Their actions also display elements of moral economic resistance. This article draws on the availa…
Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: The importance of regional political economy
The City as the Focus: The Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics
In the past, the study of cities too often played a supporting role in the field of Chinese politics. In recent years, scholars have increasingly placed various aspects of urban politics in the analytical spotlight. This article begins by outlining why urban politics is important in the study of China and ends by discussing how a discrete focus on urban politics can promote the integration of China into broader debates in political science. In be…
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality . Vivienne Shue , Christine Wong
The Chinese Worker after Socialism
While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of one such group - 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred, how workers are …
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000 . Dorothy J. Solinger
Recession and the Politics of Class and Production in China
The article begins by analyzing the historical evolution of “class ideology” in China, especially since 1978. Next, it turns to the concrete effects of the recent and ongoing recession on the Chinese working class. It finds that the crisis affected rural–urban migrants far more substantially than it did workers in the formal (mostly state-owned) urban sector. While this situation presents numerous challenges (for the central state, a crisis of le…
Law and Development of Middle-Income Countries: Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap
In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called middle-income trap? This interdisciplinary volume addresses the special challenges that middle-income countries confront from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. It is the first volume that addresses law and dev…
Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation
Based on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we argue that: 1) autonomous or quasi-independent organizations play a very important role in collective action, but one that is perhaps different from what other scholars have emphasized; 2) the presence of such groups may well foster good governance and help contain the scale of contention, …
Indonesia's Courts of Industrial Relations: Context, Structure, and a Look at Surabaya Cases
How should we approach the study of the various special courts that have proliferated in Indonesia since the fall of the New Order? In particular, can we see the new special industrial relations courts as successfully having judicialized labor rights? Building on a thorough examination of their historical antecedents, legal origins and structure, this article focuses on a careful review of cases brought before the Surabaya industrial relations co…
Elizabeth J. Perry, Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition
Chinese law and governance: Moving Beyond Responsive Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law
CONTACT William Hurst [email protected] Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
China's Phantom Urbanisation and the Pathology of Ghost Cities
This article examines the production of China's "ghost cities" and constant urban expansion to challenge the dominant conceptual narrative of rural-to-urban migration as the driver of urbanisation. It argues that behind China's "miraculous" urbanisation story is a powerful ideological commitment to urban growth as the "royal road" to modernity and assessment of political performance. Local governments have a wide-ranging "tool-kit" for pursuing u…
Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 194…
Kyle A. Jaros, China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State
A Toolkit for Co-Designing towards Community-Based Active Ageing: Lessons Learned during Development
It is increasingly recognized that community-based interventions for active ageing are more lasting and effective, yet the tools and methods for developing these interventions are lacking. This study investigates how to co-design community-based active ageing with older adults via the development of a toolkit to support this goal. Rapid reviews were conducted to understand (i) the effective behavioural change techniques for older adults, (ii) how…
Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation
Green loyalty? Unveiling consumer preferences in sustainable temporary loyalty programs
Almost every food retailer offers them – temporary loyalty programs (TLPs). TLPs aim to enhance customer loyalty by offering enticing, product-based incentives. However, an emerging concern arises regarding the sustainability impact of these programs, and consumers have started questioning the sustainability of TLPs offered by retailers. This concern is primarily driven by the mounting consumer interest and awareness surrounding sustainability, r…
Financing sustainable farming: The role of trust in the adoption of fintech by farmers
The (digital) transition to sustainable agricultural production practices requires substantial capital that is accessible to farmers implementing system changes. FinTech solutions leveraging AI-driven big data analytics can enhance capital access through data-driven loan criteria, offering an alternative to standardised, traditional banking approaches. Yet, despite these advantages, adoption remains low due to limited trust in these technologies.…
Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · China (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works)