Ning Leng
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ning Leng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ning |
| FAMILY NAME | Leng |
| SIGNATURE | LENG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1015-5749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visibility Projects and De-Privatization
This article introduces the concept of visibility in infrastructure politics and public projects. I introduce what “visibility projects” are—distorted public projects aimed at increasing government officials’ visibility in politics and career prospects. These projects are highly costly and often compromise business interests because political visibility does not often translate into business profits. Using China’s urban bus sector as a case, I fu…
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Disappearing Research
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries
Are evaluation targets negotiable in China’s cadre evaluation system? If so, which ones and how are they negotiated? Little empirical work answers these questions, which reveals the reconciliation of political control with local governance considerations in a centralized system. This article bridges the literature on bureaucratic bargaining with that on the target responsibility system by examining intra-governmental bargaining in the performance…
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries
Are evaluation targets negotiable in China’s cadre evaluation system? If so, which ones and how are they negotiated? Little empirical work answers these questions, which reveals the reconciliation of political control with local governance considerations in a centralized system. This article bridges the literature on bureaucratic bargaining with that on the target responsibility system by examining intra-governmental bargaining in the performance…
Disappearing Research
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries
Are evaluation targets negotiable in China’s cadre evaluation system? If so, which ones and how are they negotiated? Little empirical work answers these questions, which reveals the reconciliation of political control with local governance considerations in a centralized system. This article bridges the literature on bureaucratic bargaining with that on the target responsibility system by examining intra-governmental bargaining in the performance…
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Disappearing Research
Visibility Projects and De-Privatization
This article introduces the concept of visibility in infrastructure politics and public projects. I introduce what “visibility projects” are—distorted public projects aimed at increasing government officials’ visibility in politics and career prospects. These projects are highly costly and often compromise business interests because political visibility does not often translate into business profits. Using China’s urban bus sector as a case, I fu…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · China (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Control (management (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)