Lingna Zhong
Biographic Data
| ID | 5740336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lingna Zhong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lingna |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhong |
| SIGNATURE | ZHONG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central China Normal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Band or the Baton
Why Did China’s Zero-Covid Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures
Despite soaring social costs, opposed professional opinions, and divergent foreign experiences, China still persisted with its Zero-COVID policy. Preexisting theories of policy change are unable to explain the continuation of China’s COVID policy. Corresponding to the three stages of policy making, implementation and adjustment, the authors propose a framework of three decision-making constraints: (1) decision urgency, (2) regime type, and (3) po…
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments
Background Public opinion has a dynamic relationship with policy and real‐world outcomes in liberal settings where reliable information is abundant. In these settings, the public continuously updates its opinions with reliable policy‐relevant information, and the changes in public opinion go on to affect policy and outcomes. It is unknown whether this dynamic exists in illiberal settings where the public's access to reliable information is heavil…
Research on the Growth Experience of Presidents and Scientific Research Performance of Top Universities in China
More than half of the presidents in top universities of China have been grown up in their original universities. According to the upper echelon theory, the “indigenization” characteristics of university presidents will have an impact on their cognitive level and thus affect the scientific research performance of universities. Based on data from the National Natural Science Fund Projects and the National Social Science Fund Projects of China from …
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura
In China, too many leadership positions are assigned to the same broad administrative levels, creating difficulty in distinguishing their specific political rankings. Pinpointing their exact political significance, this study proposes an index using the common joint appointments of party and government positions in the Chinese Nomenklatura. After coming up with the index, to demonstrate applicability, this article uses it first to assess China’s …
Sprinting with Small Steps
In the past two decades, a new pattern of cadre promotion has quietly emerged and reshaped Chinese politics. It has been observed that officials who have held a series of key positions briefly are more likely to rise higher in their careers than other officials, a pattern that is sometimes referred to as “sprinting with small steps.” This article examines this pattern using prefecture-level leadership data to test first an institution-based expla…
Sprinting with Small Steps
In the past two decades, a new pattern of cadre promotion has quietly emerged and reshaped Chinese politics. It has been observed that officials who have held a series of key positions briefly are more likely to rise higher in their careers than other officials, a pattern that is sometimes referred to as “sprinting with small steps.” This article examines this pattern using prefecture-level leadership data to test first an institution-based expla…
Why Did China’s Zero-Covid Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures
Despite soaring social costs, opposed professional opinions, and divergent foreign experiences, China still persisted with its Zero-COVID policy. Preexisting theories of policy change are unable to explain the continuation of China’s COVID policy. Corresponding to the three stages of policy making, implementation and adjustment, the authors propose a framework of three decision-making constraints: (1) decision urgency, (2) regime type, and (3) po…
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura
In China, too many leadership positions are assigned to the same broad administrative levels, creating difficulty in distinguishing their specific political rankings. Pinpointing their exact political significance, this study proposes an index using the common joint appointments of party and government positions in the Chinese Nomenklatura. After coming up with the index, to demonstrate applicability, this article uses it first to assess China’s …
Sprinting with Small Steps
In the past two decades, a new pattern of cadre promotion has quietly emerged and reshaped Chinese politics. It has been observed that officials who have held a series of key positions briefly are more likely to rise higher in their careers than other officials, a pattern that is sometimes referred to as “sprinting with small steps.” This article examines this pattern using prefecture-level leadership data to test first an institution-based expla…
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura
In China, too many leadership positions are assigned to the same broad administrative levels, creating difficulty in distinguishing their specific political rankings. Pinpointing their exact political significance, this study proposes an index using the common joint appointments of party and government positions in the Chinese Nomenklatura. After coming up with the index, to demonstrate applicability, this article uses it first to assess China’s …
Why Did China’s Zero-Covid Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures
Despite soaring social costs, opposed professional opinions, and divergent foreign experiences, China still persisted with its Zero-COVID policy. Preexisting theories of policy change are unable to explain the continuation of China’s COVID policy. Corresponding to the three stages of policy making, implementation and adjustment, the authors propose a framework of three decision-making constraints: (1) decision urgency, (2) regime type, and (3) po…
(Mis)Informing the public? The public's responsiveness to reliable and unreliable information in illiberal information environments
Background Public opinion has a dynamic relationship with policy and real‐world outcomes in liberal settings where reliable information is abundant. In these settings, the public continuously updates its opinions with reliable policy‐relevant information, and the changes in public opinion go on to affect policy and outcomes. It is unknown whether this dynamic exists in illiberal settings where the public's access to reliable information is heavil…
Research on the Growth Experience of Presidents and Scientific Research Performance of Top Universities in China
More than half of the presidents in top universities of China have been grown up in their original universities. According to the upper echelon theory, the “indigenization” characteristics of university presidents will have an impact on their cognitive level and thus affect the scientific research performance of universities. Based on data from the National Natural Science Fund Projects and the National Social Science Fund Projects of China from …
The Band or the Baton
Political science (5 works) · China (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Economics (2 works)