Wenyan Tu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenyan Tu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tu |
| SIGNATURE | TU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1220-0232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Do Citizens Support Corrupt Politicians? The Trade‐Offs Between Corruption and Competence
The intriguing paradox of wide public disdain for corruption alongside popular corrupt politicians exists globally. By speaking to public ethics theory and rational choice theory, this study examines the trade‐off in which citizens tolerate corrupt officials in exchange for their competence to deliver public benefits. Using a conjoint experiment embedded in a sample of 30,521 surveys across 60 cities from 33 nationalities (regions) in 2023, this …
The Interactive Effect of Extrinsic Controls and Public Service Motivation on Blame Avoidance
Extrinsic and intrinsic systems of control are two prominent determinants of bureaucratic behavior. An exploration of the respective effects of the two forms of control may overlook that they often interact to exert impacts on bureaucrats. Drawing on a dataset of 870 civil servants in China, this study examines the interactive effect of extrinsic controls and intrinsic public service motivation (PSM) on blame avoidance. Three extrinsic interventi…
Does Anti-Corruption Enforcement Trigger Bureaucratic Slack in China? The Moderating Effect of an Administrative Reform
Unpacking the accountability cube and its relationship with blame avoidance
Notwithstanding the voluminous studies of accountability, little is known about its internal mechanism and its controversial relationship with blame avoidance. Based on the ‘accountability cube’ model, this study identifies four essential components of accountability: monitoring intensity, discussion quality, reward-based consequences, and punishment-based consequences. It explores the impacts of the four elements and their diverse configurations…
Public Service Motivation, Performance-Contingent Pay, and Job Satisfaction of Street-Level Bureaucrats
Does job satisfaction of street-level bureaucrats depend on intrinsic public service motivation (PSM) or extrinsic performance-contingent pay? Which factor exerts a more substantial impact on job satisfaction? Drawing on a data set of 220 frontline public service workers in Hong Kong, this study examines the nuanced relationship among PSM, performance-contingent pay, and job satisfaction. The findings show that both PSM and performance-contingent…
The divergent effects of agent-controlled transparency on corruption latency: Evidence from China
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness
This study investigates the intricate interplay between citizens’ trust in government institutions and their perceptions of institutional effectiveness. The two may have an endogenous relationship as they influence each other. Yet, since they stem from different sources and have distinct dynamics, their relationship may exhibit a directional bias in terms of causality: citizens’ trust may impact the perception of institutional effectiveness more …
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: A survey experiment in China
Grassroots bureaucrats are confronted with multiple accountability pressures which result in diverse or even conflicting expectations. Based on a survey experiment conducted in China, this study examines how bureaucrats respond to the divergent expectations of upper-level authorities and local citizens and how the intensity of such accountability influences those responses. The findings show that although bureaucrats tend to put more effort into …
Gendered clientelism and corruption: Are women less corrupt than men in China
Among civil servants, are women less corrupt than men? The established literature suggests that there is no gender gap in officials’ attitudes toward corruption when they are exposed to ample opportunities and networks for corruption. Drawing on an original survey of Chinese civil servants, this study explores the gender gap in tolerance for corruption and the mediating effect of clientelism on the gender–corruption link. The findings indicate th…
Excluded from Political Task: NGO s’ Marginalized Participation in China’s Accurate Poverty Alleviation Project
The importance of NGO s’ participation in poverty alleviation has not only been well documented by extensive studies but also confirmed by rich experience both at the international and national levels. In China, the government officially opened its resources to NGO s in combating poverty in 2005, and NGO s are expected to work as important participants in China’s accurate poverty alleviation project, which is the largest anti-poverty campaign lau…
Influence of individual values on attitudes toward corruption: What undermine formal anticorruption effectiveness
The causes of corruption are often researched by scholars from the macroscopic perspectives of institutional and cultural factors. Neglected is scholarship on the relationship between individual values and corruption. People’s definitions and attitudes toward corruption are largely determined by personal values. However, scarce scholarly attention has been paid to what and how value factors exert influence on people’s attitudes toward corruption …
Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants
What is the attitude of the Chinese public towards corruption? What are the factors influencing people's attitude towards corruption? Through large sample surveys of Chinese civil servants, this research found that corruption tolerance of civil servants is low, but the enthusiasm of participation in anti-corruption campaigns is not correspondingly high. Male respondents with longer working experience or with low monthly income appear to have high…
Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants
What is the attitude of the Chinese public towards corruption? What are the factors influencing people's attitude towards corruption? Through large sample surveys of Chinese civil servants, this research found that corruption tolerance of civil servants is low, but the enthusiasm of participation in anti-corruption campaigns is not correspondingly high. Male respondents with longer working experience or with low monthly income appear to have high…
Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants
What is the attitude of the Chinese public towards corruption? What are the factors influencing people's attitude towards corruption? Through large sample surveys of Chinese civil servants, this research found that corruption tolerance of civil servants is low, but the enthusiasm of participation in anti-corruption campaigns is not correspondingly high. Male respondents with longer working experience or with low monthly income appear to have high…
Influence of individual values on attitudes toward corruption: What undermine formal anticorruption effectiveness
The causes of corruption are often researched by scholars from the macroscopic perspectives of institutional and cultural factors. Neglected is scholarship on the relationship between individual values and corruption. People’s definitions and attitudes toward corruption are largely determined by personal values. However, scarce scholarly attention has been paid to what and how value factors exert influence on people’s attitudes toward corruption …
Gendered clientelism and corruption: Are women less corrupt than men in China
Among civil servants, are women less corrupt than men? The established literature suggests that there is no gender gap in officials’ attitudes toward corruption when they are exposed to ample opportunities and networks for corruption. Drawing on an original survey of Chinese civil servants, this study explores the gender gap in tolerance for corruption and the mediating effect of clientelism on the gender–corruption link. The findings indicate th…
Excluded from Political Task: NGO s’ Marginalized Participation in China’s Accurate Poverty Alleviation Project
The importance of NGO s’ participation in poverty alleviation has not only been well documented by extensive studies but also confirmed by rich experience both at the international and national levels. In China, the government officially opened its resources to NGO s in combating poverty in 2005, and NGO s are expected to work as important participants in China’s accurate poverty alleviation project, which is the largest anti-poverty campaign lau…
Accountability intensity and bureaucrats’ response to conflicting expectations: A survey experiment in China
Grassroots bureaucrats are confronted with multiple accountability pressures which result in diverse or even conflicting expectations. Based on a survey experiment conducted in China, this study examines how bureaucrats respond to the divergent expectations of upper-level authorities and local citizens and how the intensity of such accountability influences those responses. The findings show that although bureaucrats tend to put more effort into …
Unpacking the accountability cube and its relationship with blame avoidance
Notwithstanding the voluminous studies of accountability, little is known about its internal mechanism and its controversial relationship with blame avoidance. Based on the ‘accountability cube’ model, this study identifies four essential components of accountability: monitoring intensity, discussion quality, reward-based consequences, and punishment-based consequences. It explores the impacts of the four elements and their diverse configurations…
Public Service Motivation, Performance-Contingent Pay, and Job Satisfaction of Street-Level Bureaucrats
Does job satisfaction of street-level bureaucrats depend on intrinsic public service motivation (PSM) or extrinsic performance-contingent pay? Which factor exerts a more substantial impact on job satisfaction? Drawing on a data set of 220 frontline public service workers in Hong Kong, this study examines the nuanced relationship among PSM, performance-contingent pay, and job satisfaction. The findings show that both PSM and performance-contingent…
The divergent effects of agent-controlled transparency on corruption latency: Evidence from China
Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness
This study investigates the intricate interplay between citizens’ trust in government institutions and their perceptions of institutional effectiveness. The two may have an endogenous relationship as they influence each other. Yet, since they stem from different sources and have distinct dynamics, their relationship may exhibit a directional bias in terms of causality: citizens’ trust may impact the perception of institutional effectiveness more …
The Interactive Effect of Extrinsic Controls and Public Service Motivation on Blame Avoidance
Extrinsic and intrinsic systems of control are two prominent determinants of bureaucratic behavior. An exploration of the respective effects of the two forms of control may overlook that they often interact to exert impacts on bureaucrats. Drawing on a dataset of 870 civil servants in China, this study examines the interactive effect of extrinsic controls and intrinsic public service motivation (PSM) on blame avoidance. Three extrinsic interventi…
Does Anti-Corruption Enforcement Trigger Bureaucratic Slack in China? The Moderating Effect of an Administrative Reform
When Do Citizens Support Corrupt Politicians? The Trade‐Offs Between Corruption and Competence
The intriguing paradox of wide public disdain for corruption alongside popular corrupt politicians exists globally. By speaking to public ethics theory and rational choice theory, this study examines the trade‐off in which citizens tolerate corrupt officials in exchange for their competence to deliver public benefits. Using a conjoint experiment embedded in a sample of 30,521 surveys across 60 cities from 33 nationalities (regions) in 2023, this …
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · China (6 works) · Language change (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)