Xian Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xian Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xian |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9406-4483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Self-interested altruism? Understanding preferences for social welfare inclusion in aging China
How does population aging shape individuals’ welfare attitudes toward migrants? As fiscal pressures mount in aging societies, people reassess the costs and benefits of incorporating migrants into social welfare systems. We argue that in the context of population aging, individuals’ support for migrant inclusion increases when migrants are perceived as net contributors rather than dependents. Using original survey data from China, one of the most …
Does early pregnancy exposure to macrolide antibiotics lead to major birth defects? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: Macrolide antibiotics are frequently used to treat infections in women during early pregnancy. However, the association between early pregnancy exposure to macrolide antibiotics and major birth defects remains uncertain. Clarifying this risk is crucial for public health and clinical decision-making. Methods: This study systematically searched five databases-Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, and Scopus-for studies exploring the…
Risk, Inequality, and Support for Social Insurance Reform in China
Building on the policy feedback literature and the risk‐based perspective of the welfare state, this study examines the causal link between policy and opinion in a non‐democratic setting. I argue that the distinct distributional profiles of social insurance benefits and risks in the current system generate different feedback effects on public demands for social insurance reform. Drawing on original individual‐level survey data collected in China …
Study on Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Commuting under Adverse Weather Events
This study focuses on the main urban area of Yangzhou City and conducts a quantitative comparative analysis of traffic accessibility during normal weather and extreme precipitation conditions (typhoon) based on GPS trajectories of buses. From both temporal and spatial dimensions, it comprehensively examines the impact of extreme precipitation on bus travel speed, travel time, and the commuting range of residents in the main urban area of Yangzhou…
The Quest for ‘Common Prosperity’ in China
In early 2021, President Xi Jinping introduced a national goal of achieving “common prosperity,” which aims to reduce the yawning wealth gap between China’s rich and poor. At a time when China’s economy is slowing, the implementation of common prosperity involves an unprecedented effort to maintain domestic stability and social quiescence amid intensifying geopolitical tensions. The party-state has sought to avoid provoking public discontent by p…
Benefit or procedure? Determinants of perceived distributive fairness in rural China
Counseling for Health
As mobile healthcare services entered the public sight with high frequency during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients are increasingly recognizing the effectiveness of mobile medical consultation (MMC). Earlier studies have investigated what influences continuance intention (CI) towards MMC, but few studies have scrutinized it from the perspective of patients' psychological distance. We formulated a framework to examine the psychological factors infl…
Bread or Roses
Much comparative politics scholarship has examined whether economic inequality affects democratic values or political support in democracies. Nevertheless, they lack a close examination of the political effects of economic inequality and, more importantly, how economic inequality shapes political support in non-democracies. We provide an empirical test of the effect of economic inequality on regime support using the China data from the Asian Baro…
Economic inequality, distributive unfairness, and regime support in East Asia
The relationship between economic inequality and political support is not well established in previous empirical studies in part because people commonly misperceive the level of economic inequality. Moreover, people perceiving high economic inequality may not oppose the incumbent government or political regime because they consider the inequality fair. To better capture the political outcomes of economic inequality, we investigate the effects of …
Response to Yanzhong Huang’s Review of Social Protection under Authoritarianism
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Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China
Social Protection under Authoritarianism
Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? What are the distributive features and implications of social welfare expansion in an authoritarian country? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian leaders face in social welfare provision: effectively balancing covera…
The Chinese Dream
Objective Social mobility plays an important role in stabilizing the political order. This article leverages China's hukou (household registration) reforms to examine the effects of state‐engineered social mobility on individuals’ trust in the government. Methods Using China General Social Survey data for 2010 and entropy balancing for causal effects, this article provides empirical evidence for the attitudinal effects of social mobility at the i…
When top‐down meets bottom‐up
Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top‐down pressure from the regime and bottom‐up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substanti…
When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up
Social Cleavages and Preferences for Government Redistribution in Contemporary China
Does social insurance enrollment improve citizen assessment of local government performance? Evidence from China
Four Worlds of Welfare
China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than mitigated regional disparities in health care. How can the regional variation in Chinese social health insurance be explained? This paper argues that the subnational variation in China's social health insurance results from the policy choices of central and local states. The centr…
Expansion of Chinese Social Health Insurance
This article asks 'who gets what, when and how' from China's recent social welfare expansion. Little research to date examines the overall landscape of China's social health insurance, which has changed dramatically since 2003, and the distributive consequences and implications thereof. Drawing on public survey data and fieldwork for empirical support, this article finds that China's recent social health insurance expansion does significantly exp…
The Politics of Social Welfare Reform in Urban China
When top‐down meets bottom‐up
Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top‐down pressure from the regime and bottom‐up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substanti…
Expansion of Chinese Social Health Insurance
This article asks 'who gets what, when and how' from China's recent social welfare expansion. Little research to date examines the overall landscape of China's social health insurance, which has changed dramatically since 2003, and the distributive consequences and implications thereof. Drawing on public survey data and fieldwork for empirical support, this article finds that China's recent social health insurance expansion does significantly exp…
The Politics of Social Welfare Reform in Urban China
The Chinese Dream
Objective Social mobility plays an important role in stabilizing the political order. This article leverages China's hukou (household registration) reforms to examine the effects of state‐engineered social mobility on individuals’ trust in the government. Methods Using China General Social Survey data for 2010 and entropy balancing for causal effects, this article provides empirical evidence for the attitudinal effects of social mobility at the i…
Economic inequality, distributive unfairness, and regime support in East Asia
The relationship between economic inequality and political support is not well established in previous empirical studies in part because people commonly misperceive the level of economic inequality. Moreover, people perceiving high economic inequality may not oppose the incumbent government or political regime because they consider the inequality fair. To better capture the political outcomes of economic inequality, we investigate the effects of …
Does social insurance enrollment improve citizen assessment of local government performance? Evidence from China
Bread or Roses
Much comparative politics scholarship has examined whether economic inequality affects democratic values or political support in democracies. Nevertheless, they lack a close examination of the political effects of economic inequality and, more importantly, how economic inequality shapes political support in non-democracies. We provide an empirical test of the effect of economic inequality on regime support using the China data from the Asian Baro…
Social Cleavages and Preferences for Government Redistribution in Contemporary China
Benefit or procedure? Determinants of perceived distributive fairness in rural China
The Politics of Social Welfare Reform in Urban China
Expansion of Chinese Social Health Insurance
This article asks 'who gets what, when and how' from China's recent social welfare expansion. Little research to date examines the overall landscape of China's social health insurance, which has changed dramatically since 2003, and the distributive consequences and implications thereof. Drawing on public survey data and fieldwork for empirical support, this article finds that China's recent social health insurance expansion does significantly exp…
Four Worlds of Welfare
China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than mitigated regional disparities in health care. How can the regional variation in Chinese social health insurance be explained? This paper argues that the subnational variation in China's social health insurance results from the policy choices of central and local states. The centr…
Does social insurance enrollment improve citizen assessment of local government performance? Evidence from China
When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up
Social Cleavages and Preferences for Government Redistribution in Contemporary China
Social Protection under Authoritarianism
Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? What are the distributive features and implications of social welfare expansion in an authoritarian country? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian leaders face in social welfare provision: effectively balancing covera…
The Chinese Dream
Objective Social mobility plays an important role in stabilizing the political order. This article leverages China's hukou (household registration) reforms to examine the effects of state‐engineered social mobility on individuals’ trust in the government. Methods Using China General Social Survey data for 2010 and entropy balancing for causal effects, this article provides empirical evidence for the attitudinal effects of social mobility at the i…
When top‐down meets bottom‐up
Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top‐down pressure from the regime and bottom‐up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substanti…
Response to Yanzhong Huang’s Review of Social Protection under Authoritarianism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Kerry E. Ratigan, Local Politics and Social Policy in China
Counseling for Health
As mobile healthcare services entered the public sight with high frequency during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients are increasingly recognizing the effectiveness of mobile medical consultation (MMC). Earlier studies have investigated what influences continuance intention (CI) towards MMC, but few studies have scrutinized it from the perspective of patients' psychological distance. We formulated a framework to examine the psychological factors infl…
Bread or Roses
Much comparative politics scholarship has examined whether economic inequality affects democratic values or political support in democracies. Nevertheless, they lack a close examination of the political effects of economic inequality and, more importantly, how economic inequality shapes political support in non-democracies. We provide an empirical test of the effect of economic inequality on regime support using the China data from the Asian Baro…
Economic inequality, distributive unfairness, and regime support in East Asia
The relationship between economic inequality and political support is not well established in previous empirical studies in part because people commonly misperceive the level of economic inequality. Moreover, people perceiving high economic inequality may not oppose the incumbent government or political regime because they consider the inequality fair. To better capture the political outcomes of economic inequality, we investigate the effects of …
Study on Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Commuting under Adverse Weather Events
This study focuses on the main urban area of Yangzhou City and conducts a quantitative comparative analysis of traffic accessibility during normal weather and extreme precipitation conditions (typhoon) based on GPS trajectories of buses. From both temporal and spatial dimensions, it comprehensively examines the impact of extreme precipitation on bus travel speed, travel time, and the commuting range of residents in the main urban area of Yangzhou…
The Quest for ‘Common Prosperity’ in China
In early 2021, President Xi Jinping introduced a national goal of achieving “common prosperity,” which aims to reduce the yawning wealth gap between China’s rich and poor. At a time when China’s economy is slowing, the implementation of common prosperity involves an unprecedented effort to maintain domestic stability and social quiescence amid intensifying geopolitical tensions. The party-state has sought to avoid provoking public discontent by p…
Benefit or procedure? Determinants of perceived distributive fairness in rural China
Risk, Inequality, and Support for Social Insurance Reform in China
Building on the policy feedback literature and the risk‐based perspective of the welfare state, this study examines the causal link between policy and opinion in a non‐democratic setting. I argue that the distinct distributional profiles of social insurance benefits and risks in the current system generate different feedback effects on public demands for social insurance reform. Drawing on original individual‐level survey data collected in China …
Self-interested altruism? Understanding preferences for social welfare inclusion in aging China
How does population aging shape individuals’ welfare attitudes toward migrants? As fiscal pressures mount in aging societies, people reassess the costs and benefits of incorporating migrants into social welfare systems. We argue that in the context of population aging, individuals’ support for migrant inclusion increases when migrants are perceived as net contributors rather than dependents. Using original survey data from China, one of the most …
Does early pregnancy exposure to macrolide antibiotics lead to major birth defects? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: Macrolide antibiotics are frequently used to treat infections in women during early pregnancy. However, the association between early pregnancy exposure to macrolide antibiotics and major birth defects remains uncertain. Clarifying this risk is crucial for public health and clinical decision-making. Methods: This study systematically searched five databases-Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, and Scopus-for studies exploring the…
Political science (16 works) · China (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (13 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Authoritarianism (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works)