Sabrina Habich‐sobiegalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina Habich‐sobiegalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Habich‐sobiegalla |
| SIGNATURE | SOBIEGALLA S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1316-7841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
State Influence in Educational Migration: A Comparative Study of State- and Non-State-Funded Chinese Students in Germany
As of 2018, more than 65,000 Chinese students had pursued overseas studies with funding from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). While CSC funding expands access to international education, it also entails contractual obligations that may create tensions between state expectations and individual agency. This study examines whether differences between CSC-funded and non-CSC students align with documented features of the CSC programme, which for…
Extending the reach of the state: Party Building and the Gig Economy
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with Covid‐19 regulations
Amid the COVID‐19 pandemic, citizens' compliance with government preventive measures was one of the top policy priorities for governments worldwide. This study engages with socio‐legal and psychological theories on compliance and proposes an analytical framework to explore the role of different psychological factors on individual‐level compliance during global health crises. Using the results of three national surveys, we argue that various negat…
Temporal governance and accountability costs of Beijing's digital citizen request system
Prior literature highlights democracies' struggle to cope with today's rapid socio‐economic changes, contrasting with more adept responses in authoritarian systems. This study makes a first attempt to explain the perceived speediness in an authoritarian setting. By focusing on Beijing's digital service request system, Jiesu Jiban, we argue that in creating request categories, standardizing cadres' reactions to requests, and designing decision pat…
Sharing is caring: Willingness to share personal data through contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the US
Are citizens more willing to share private data in (health) crises? We study citizens' willingness to share personal data through COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs). Based on a cross-national online survey with 6,464 respondents from China, Germany, and the US, we find considerable variation in how and what data respondents are willing to share through CTAs. Drawing on the privacy calculus theory and the trade-off model of privacy and security,…
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward Covid-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States
The adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs) has been proposed as an important measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Based on a cross-national dataset, this article analyzes public perceptions toward CTAs and the factors that drive CTA acceptance in China, Germany, and the United States. We find that public acceptance of CTAs is significantly higher in China as compared with Germany and the United States. Despite very different socio…
Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyses the organization of Chinese grassroots social management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a range of local cases researched through policy documents, media coverage and interviews, we scrutinize the appropriation of emergency measures and the utilization of grid-style social management since the outbreak of COVID-19. Grid-style social management - a new grassroots administrative division aiming to mobilize neighbourh…
The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond
Industrial Policies Under Xi Jinping: A Steering Theory Perspective
Xi Jinping’s ascension to power and subsequent developments in Chinese governance have stoked the flames on the debate on industrial policies, both in China and across the globe. At least partly, the debate results from the perception that industrial policies have been important for China’s economic rise, growing competitiveness and drive to innovate. Outside China, this perception has already prompted some governments to suggest that their count…
Socio-Economic Development and Infrastructure Cost Performance in China: Comparing Transport and Energy Sectors
Socio-economic development is often linked to efficient infrastructure provision. In China, the government has rolled out ambitious infrastructure projects as part of its national development strategy. There is much to praise about China’s infrastructure provision, such as its remarkable scale and speed of infrastructure delivery. However, based on studying 153 infrastructure cases between 1983 and 2018 and two in-depth case studies, we find that…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
Piloting Away – State-Signaling and Confidence-building in China’s Renewable Energy Sector
Past studies agree that the efficiency and effectiveness of policy experimentation is highly context dependent. This study examines how policy pilots are used as tools for implementing China’s energy transition and how this has produced mixed results. While pilots have effectively mobilized actors to rapidly expand renewable power generation, efforts to integrate renewable energy into power grids have been unsuccessful. The article shows that the…
The Shadow of China over Taiwan's Democracy
ntroduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 1/2017: Assessing the Administration of President Ma Ying-jeou
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward Covid-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States
The adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs) has been proposed as an important measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Based on a cross-national dataset, this article analyzes public perceptions toward CTAs and the factors that drive CTA acceptance in China, Germany, and the United States. We find that public acceptance of CTAs is significantly higher in China as compared with Germany and the United States. Despite very different socio…
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with Covid‐19 regulations
Amid the COVID‐19 pandemic, citizens' compliance with government preventive measures was one of the top policy priorities for governments worldwide. This study engages with socio‐legal and psychological theories on compliance and proposes an analytical framework to explore the role of different psychological factors on individual‐level compliance during global health crises. Using the results of three national surveys, we argue that various negat…
Temporal governance and accountability costs of Beijing's digital citizen request system
Prior literature highlights democracies' struggle to cope with today's rapid socio‐economic changes, contrasting with more adept responses in authoritarian systems. This study makes a first attempt to explain the perceived speediness in an authoritarian setting. By focusing on Beijing's digital service request system, Jiesu Jiban, we argue that in creating request categories, standardizing cadres' reactions to requests, and designing decision pat…
Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyses the organization of Chinese grassroots social management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a range of local cases researched through policy documents, media coverage and interviews, we scrutinize the appropriation of emergency measures and the utilization of grid-style social management since the outbreak of COVID-19. Grid-style social management - a new grassroots administrative division aiming to mobilize neighbourh…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
Piloting Away – State-Signaling and Confidence-building in China’s Renewable Energy Sector
Past studies agree that the efficiency and effectiveness of policy experimentation is highly context dependent. This study examines how policy pilots are used as tools for implementing China’s energy transition and how this has produced mixed results. While pilots have effectively mobilized actors to rapidly expand renewable power generation, efforts to integrate renewable energy into power grids have been unsuccessful. The article shows that the…
Industrial Policies Under Xi Jinping: A Steering Theory Perspective
Xi Jinping’s ascension to power and subsequent developments in Chinese governance have stoked the flames on the debate on industrial policies, both in China and across the globe. At least partly, the debate results from the perception that industrial policies have been important for China’s economic rise, growing competitiveness and drive to innovate. Outside China, this perception has already prompted some governments to suggest that their count…
The Shadow of China over Taiwan's Democracy
ntroduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 1/2017: Assessing the Administration of President Ma Ying-jeou
Piloting Away – State-Signaling and Confidence-building in China’s Renewable Energy Sector
Past studies agree that the efficiency and effectiveness of policy experimentation is highly context dependent. This study examines how policy pilots are used as tools for implementing China’s energy transition and how this has produced mixed results. While pilots have effectively mobilized actors to rapidly expand renewable power generation, efforts to integrate renewable energy into power grids have been unsuccessful. The article shows that the…
Socio-Economic Development and Infrastructure Cost Performance in China: Comparing Transport and Energy Sectors
Socio-economic development is often linked to efficient infrastructure provision. In China, the government has rolled out ambitious infrastructure projects as part of its national development strategy. There is much to praise about China’s infrastructure provision, such as its remarkable scale and speed of infrastructure delivery. However, based on studying 153 infrastructure cases between 1983 and 2018 and two in-depth case studies, we find that…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond
Industrial Policies Under Xi Jinping: A Steering Theory Perspective
Xi Jinping’s ascension to power and subsequent developments in Chinese governance have stoked the flames on the debate on industrial policies, both in China and across the globe. At least partly, the debate results from the perception that industrial policies have been important for China’s economic rise, growing competitiveness and drive to innovate. Outside China, this perception has already prompted some governments to suggest that their count…
In times of crisis: Public perceptions toward Covid-19 contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the United States
The adoption of COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs) has been proposed as an important measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Based on a cross-national dataset, this article analyzes public perceptions toward CTAs and the factors that drive CTA acceptance in China, Germany, and the United States. We find that public acceptance of CTAs is significantly higher in China as compared with Germany and the United States. Despite very different socio…
Topologies of power in China’s grid-style social management during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyses the organization of Chinese grassroots social management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a range of local cases researched through policy documents, media coverage and interviews, we scrutinize the appropriation of emergency measures and the utilization of grid-style social management since the outbreak of COVID-19. Grid-style social management - a new grassroots administrative division aiming to mobilize neighbourh…
Sharing is caring: Willingness to share personal data through contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the US
Are citizens more willing to share private data in (health) crises? We study citizens' willingness to share personal data through COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs). Based on a cross-national online survey with 6,464 respondents from China, Germany, and the US, we find considerable variation in how and what data respondents are willing to share through CTAs. Drawing on the privacy calculus theory and the trade-off model of privacy and security,…
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with Covid‐19 regulations
Amid the COVID‐19 pandemic, citizens' compliance with government preventive measures was one of the top policy priorities for governments worldwide. This study engages with socio‐legal and psychological theories on compliance and proposes an analytical framework to explore the role of different psychological factors on individual‐level compliance during global health crises. Using the results of three national surveys, we argue that various negat…
Temporal governance and accountability costs of Beijing's digital citizen request system
Prior literature highlights democracies' struggle to cope with today's rapid socio‐economic changes, contrasting with more adept responses in authoritarian systems. This study makes a first attempt to explain the perceived speediness in an authoritarian setting. By focusing on Beijing's digital service request system, Jiesu Jiban, we argue that in creating request categories, standardizing cadres' reactions to requests, and designing decision pat…
Extending the reach of the state: Party Building and the Gig Economy
State Influence in Educational Migration: A Comparative Study of State- and Non-State-Funded Chinese Students in Germany
As of 2018, more than 65,000 Chinese students had pursued overseas studies with funding from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). While CSC funding expands access to international education, it also entails contractual obligations that may create tensions between state expectations and individual agency. This study examines whether differences between CSC-funded and non-CSC students align with documented features of the CSC programme, which for…
Political science (11 works) · China (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Government (linguistics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)