Iza Ding
Biographic Data
| ID | 4018348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iza Ding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iza |
| FAMILY NAME | Ding |
| SIGNATURE | DING I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4379-1853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China
The literature on policy implementation has primarily focused on regime type, institutional capacity, and leadership will in explaining policy success, while giving less attention to the details of policy design. This article argues that, when explaining unevenness in policy implementation, the devil is in the details. It turns to four Chinese environmental policies: Pollution Penalty, Cap-and-Trade, Coal-to-Gas, and Environmental Protection Tax.…
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts by Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? This book shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. The book unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. It demonstrates in vivid det…
Populism and the Past: Restoring, Retaining, and Redeeming the Nation
Democratic decoupling
Democratic backsliding does not necessarily see all democratic institutions erode in parallel fashion. This article analyses contemporary democratic backsliding through the lens of institutional change, as a process of "democratic decoupling," in which a systematic gap opens up between the constitutive features of liberal democracy. Specifically, we focus on the worldwide decoupling between electoral quality and rights protections over the past d…
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China
Authoritarian regimes sometimes professionalize their legal systems to govern more effectively. Yet when quasi-autonomous courts rule in contradiction to popular conceptions of right and wrong—popular morality—it might threaten citizens’ trust in the regime. We use the case of contemporary China to investigate this “moral-legal dilemma”—the competing needs of legal development and the satisfaction of popular justice concerns. Four case studies de…
Performative Governance
The state often struggles to meet citizens’ demands but confronts strong public pressure to do so. What does the state do when public expectations exceed its actual governing capacity? This article shows that the state can respond by engaging in performative governance—the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures to foster an impression of good governance among citizens. Performative governance should be distinguished from other t…
Right” Choice: Restorative Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe
Performative Governance
The state often struggles to meet citizens’ demands but confronts strong public pressure to do so. What does the state do when public expectations exceed its actual governing capacity? This article shows that the state can respond by engaging in performative governance—the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures to foster an impression of good governance among citizens. Performative governance should be distinguished from other t…
Democratic decoupling
Democratic backsliding does not necessarily see all democratic institutions erode in parallel fashion. This article analyses contemporary democratic backsliding through the lens of institutional change, as a process of "democratic decoupling," in which a systematic gap opens up between the constitutive features of liberal democracy. Specifically, we focus on the worldwide decoupling between electoral quality and rights protections over the past d…
Populism and the Past: Restoring, Retaining, and Redeeming the Nation
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China
Authoritarian regimes sometimes professionalize their legal systems to govern more effectively. Yet when quasi-autonomous courts rule in contradiction to popular conceptions of right and wrong—popular morality—it might threaten citizens’ trust in the regime. We use the case of contemporary China to investigate this “moral-legal dilemma”—the competing needs of legal development and the satisfaction of popular justice concerns. Four case studies de…
Right” Choice: Restorative Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China
The literature on policy implementation has primarily focused on regime type, institutional capacity, and leadership will in explaining policy success, while giving less attention to the details of policy design. This article argues that, when explaining unevenness in policy implementation, the devil is in the details. It turns to four Chinese environmental policies: Pollution Penalty, Cap-and-Trade, Coal-to-Gas, and Environmental Protection Tax.…
Right” Choice: Restorative Nationalism and Right-Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe
Performative Governance
The state often struggles to meet citizens’ demands but confronts strong public pressure to do so. What does the state do when public expectations exceed its actual governing capacity? This article shows that the state can respond by engaging in performative governance—the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures to foster an impression of good governance among citizens. Performative governance should be distinguished from other t…
Populism and the Past: Restoring, Retaining, and Redeeming the Nation
Democratic decoupling
Democratic backsliding does not necessarily see all democratic institutions erode in parallel fashion. This article analyses contemporary democratic backsliding through the lens of institutional change, as a process of "democratic decoupling," in which a systematic gap opens up between the constitutive features of liberal democracy. Specifically, we focus on the worldwide decoupling between electoral quality and rights protections over the past d…
The Autocrat’s Moral-Legal Dilemma: Popular Morality and Legal Institutions in China
Authoritarian regimes sometimes professionalize their legal systems to govern more effectively. Yet when quasi-autonomous courts rule in contradiction to popular conceptions of right and wrong—popular morality—it might threaten citizens’ trust in the regime. We use the case of contemporary China to investigate this “moral-legal dilemma”—the competing needs of legal development and the satisfaction of popular justice concerns. Four case studies de…
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? This book shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. The book unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. It demonstrates in vivid det…
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China
The literature on policy implementation has primarily focused on regime type, institutional capacity, and leadership will in explaining policy success, while giving less attention to the details of policy design. This article argues that, when explaining unevenness in policy implementation, the devil is in the details. It turns to four Chinese environmental policies: Pollution Penalty, Cap-and-Trade, Coal-to-Gas, and Environmental Protection Tax.…
Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts by Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works)