Tianguang Meng
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4099463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tianguang Meng |
| PRENOMES | Tianguang |
| SOBRENOME | Meng |
| ASSINATURA | MENG T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tsinghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3829-6981 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 305 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Stratified regulation
While previous studies examine how biases in training data and models shape LLMs’ values, less attention has been paid to how political orientations vary across different deployment modes. This paper proposes a stratified regulation framework, arguing that the Chinese government balances technological innovation with information regulation. Cloud-based models, accessible to the public, are strictly regulated to ensure ideological security, wherea…
Digital Legitimation and Compensation
A Bigger World or a Bigger Room? Internet Access, Political Affiliation, and Online Expression in China
How do Internet access and political affiliation interact to influence online expression in China? This study categorizes Chinese netizens’ Internet access as regular or irregular, based on their exposure to blocked online information. Using data from the 2015 Chinese Urban Governance Survey (CUGS), a unique dataset that measures individuals’ use of circumvention technologies, the authors find that the association between irregular Internet acces…
Consensus vs divide
Scholars widely regard digital governance as a path to good governance in China. However, the perception gap between political elites and mass in China has not yet been systematically explored. Based on a large-scale online national survey (N = 3,822), this study divides perceptions of digital governance into preference and satisfaction and applies an individual-contextual model to explain the perception gap. The findings reveal that there is con…
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts
This paper examines Chinese K-pop fan communities’ responses to the 2016–2017 Korean Wave Ban, which restricted the circulation of Korean cultural materials amid diplomatic tensions. The study asks whether fan discourse – previously shaped by South Korea’s more democratic and individualistic environment – would shift toward state ideology or preserve alternative orientations once outside influences were curtailed. Drawing on a dataset of Weibo po…
Vertical and Horizontal Modes of Collaboration in Urban Governance
Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in digital China
With the emerging trend of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in various fields, AI ethics and its related incidents have aroused concern and caused wide discussion in both society and academia around the world. In this paper, we discuss AI ethics and governance with respect to public perspectives. Based on the existing literature, policies, and guidelines on AI ethics, we sorted AI ethics concerns into eight dimensions: safety, tra…
Conceptions of democracy in China
This article investigates popular conceptions of democracy and its underlying factors in China. Democratic conceptions among Chinese citizens have long been debated, with most concluding that economic welfare and government performance dominate how the Chinese view democracy. This article offers a different picture, with new evidence drawn from text data. By employing the structural topic model to analyze the responses to open-ended questions fro…
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China
Many communist regimes have presided over episodes of rapid industrial development, often coupled by the establishment of a planned economic system wherein the state replaces the market as the primary provider of essential resources and services. We argue that life experience under a communist-style industrial workplace fosters a distinct and enduring set of norms and habits that shape how citizens engage with political authorities. Leveraging ex…
Digital Corporatism
Enhancing infrastructural dynamic responses to critical residents’ needs for urban resilience through machine learning and hypernetwork analysis
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust
Research suggests that economic inequality reduces political trust after the public recognizes the inequality and perceives it as a failure of the political system in Western democracies. This study challenges this presumed “output evaluation model” (OEM) both theoretically and empirically. We provide an alternative mediator evaluation model (MEM) contending that objective inequality affects political trust through government-performance mediator…
Official Media as Emotional Valves
Social media is the most popular platform for the expression of public opinion, and it is a critical channel through which researchers can observe the dynamics and patterns of public opinion. This study explores the political origins of Chinese nationalism by focusing on how official media shapes mass nationalism in Cyber China. Analyzing 26 million Weibo posts made during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we found significant variations in na…
National Identity of Locality
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China
This article investigates whether the Chinese public possesses structured political preferences or ideology. We show that ideology in China is organized around a state- market economic dimension and an authoritarian-democratic political dimension. The most politically informed individuals are the least likely to constrain their ideological preferences to one dimension, which we argue is a product of the Party's propaganda efforts. We find that yo…
E-Government Use, Perceived Transparency, Public Knowledge of Government Performance, and Satisfaction with Government
Internet involvement, information consumption, and political participation in urban China
The issue of whether the internet promotes political participation has always been a hotly debated topic in academia. However, current research lacks an effective classification of the modes of internet use, and it does not analyze their effect on different forms of political participation. Based on data from the 2015 and 2018 waves of the China Urban Governance Survey, this study offers an examination of the internet usage behavior of Chinese ur…
Government-Led or Public-Led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper compares government-led agenda and public-led agenda setting during the COVID-19 pandemic in China to investigate whether or not the pandemic enhances the government's role in agenda setting. Within-case comparison, aided by big data analysis and case study, finds an overall public-led pattern of agenda setting in China, and a mixture of government-led and public-led agenda setting during the pandemic. It is also found that Chinese gov…
When top-down meets bottom-up
The Paradox of Responsiveness and Social Protest in China
Prior studies regard responsiveness as an effective institution for Chinese government to mitigate social protests based on the premise that citizens adopt more institutionalized channels as soon as the regime makes it available. We challenge this notion by arguing that institutionalized and noninstitutionalized channels are not substituting but complements, and improving responsiveness to institutionalized participation may ironically lead to mo…
Geographical Leadership Mobility and Policy Isomorphism
The link between geographical leadership mobility and policy isomorphism is rarely discussed in the extant literature. We argue that the geographical leadership mobility encourages local executives to converge their development experiences in their original working jurisdictions and their current positions. The distinct Chinese political personnel system provides an ideal environment that allows researchers to examine the isomorphic effects of ge…
Corruption Experience and Public Perceptions of Anti-corruption Crackdowns
From Internet to social safety net
Internet‐based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether participation through these platforms can actually enable citizens to influence policies. We address this question by studying the patterns and consequences of online participation at a major electronic petition platform in China, a country with the world's largest Interne…
Political elites in deliberative democracy
Political leaders and elites play an enormous role in shaping a country's political development. Participatory and deliberative governance represents a major trend of political development around the world; while many studies focus on the ordinary people involved in public deliberation, little is known about the roles elites play in facilitating or impeding the progress of this deliberation. Utilizing a new survey on Chinese officials, we offer t…
Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation
An increasing number of scholars have established that authoritarian regimes employ quasi-democratic institutions as part of their efforts to retain power. However, we know little about the potential variation among institutions providing citizens with opportunities for voice and the conditions under which such institutions are true channels of responsiveness. In this article, we develop and test the concept of “receptivity,” that is, whether aut…
Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation
An increasing number of scholars have established that authoritarian regimes employ quasi-democratic institutions as part of their efforts to retain power. However, we know little about the potential variation among institutions providing citizens with opportunities for voice and the conditions under which such institutions are true channels of responsiveness. In this article, we develop and test the concept of “receptivity,” that is, whether aut…
From Internet to social safety net
Internet‐based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether participation through these platforms can actually enable citizens to influence policies. We address this question by studying the patterns and consequences of online participation at a major electronic petition platform in China, a country with the world's largest Interne…
Selective responsiveness
Could more civil society involvement increase public support for climate policy-making? Evidence from a survey experiment in China
A multilevel analysis of social capital and self-rated health
Geographical Leadership Mobility and Policy Isomorphism
The link between geographical leadership mobility and policy isomorphism is rarely discussed in the extant literature. We argue that the geographical leadership mobility encourages local executives to converge their development experiences in their original working jurisdictions and their current positions. The distinct Chinese political personnel system provides an ideal environment that allows researchers to examine the isomorphic effects of ge…
The Policy–Opinion Nexus
This study investigates the policy–opinion nexus in China. Using nationally representative survey data and propensity score matching, it examines the effect of policy on opinions in four welfare domains: pension, educational subsidies, health care, and minimum livelihood assistance. Our findings show that individuals’ experience with welfare policy tends to reinforce the idea that the government should take responsibility for welfare, and this ex…
When top-down meets bottom-up
E-Government Use, Perceived Transparency, Public Knowledge of Government Performance, and Satisfaction with Government
Government-Led or Public-Led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper compares government-led agenda and public-led agenda setting during the COVID-19 pandemic in China to investigate whether or not the pandemic enhances the government's role in agenda setting. Within-case comparison, aided by big data analysis and case study, finds an overall public-led pattern of agenda setting in China, and a mixture of government-led and public-led agenda setting during the pandemic. It is also found that Chinese gov…
Corruption Experience and Public Perceptions of Anti-corruption Crackdowns
Digital Corporatism
Political elites in deliberative democracy
Political leaders and elites play an enormous role in shaping a country's political development. Participatory and deliberative governance represents a major trend of political development around the world; while many studies focus on the ordinary people involved in public deliberation, little is known about the roles elites play in facilitating or impeding the progress of this deliberation. Utilizing a new survey on Chinese officials, we offer t…
National Identity of Locality
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China
This article investigates whether the Chinese public possesses structured political preferences or ideology. We show that ideology in China is organized around a state- market economic dimension and an authoritarian-democratic political dimension. The most politically informed individuals are the least likely to constrain their ideological preferences to one dimension, which we argue is a product of the Party's propaganda efforts. We find that yo…
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust
Research suggests that economic inequality reduces political trust after the public recognizes the inequality and perceives it as a failure of the political system in Western democracies. This study challenges this presumed “output evaluation model” (OEM) both theoretically and empirically. We provide an alternative mediator evaluation model (MEM) contending that objective inequality affects political trust through government-performance mediator…
The Paradox of Responsiveness and Social Protest in China
Prior studies regard responsiveness as an effective institution for Chinese government to mitigate social protests based on the premise that citizens adopt more institutionalized channels as soon as the regime makes it available. We challenge this notion by arguing that institutionalized and noninstitutionalized channels are not substituting but complements, and improving responsiveness to institutionalized participation may ironically lead to mo…
Consensus vs divide
Scholars widely regard digital governance as a path to good governance in China. However, the perception gap between political elites and mass in China has not yet been systematically explored. Based on a large-scale online national survey (N = 3,822), this study divides perceptions of digital governance into preference and satisfaction and applies an individual-contextual model to explain the perception gap. The findings reveal that there is con…
Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in digital China
With the emerging trend of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in various fields, AI ethics and its related incidents have aroused concern and caused wide discussion in both society and academia around the world. In this paper, we discuss AI ethics and governance with respect to public perspectives. Based on the existing literature, policies, and guidelines on AI ethics, we sorted AI ethics concerns into eight dimensions: safety, tra…
Conceptions of democracy in China
This article investigates popular conceptions of democracy and its underlying factors in China. Democratic conceptions among Chinese citizens have long been debated, with most concluding that economic welfare and government performance dominate how the Chinese view democracy. This article offers a different picture, with new evidence drawn from text data. By employing the structural topic model to analyze the responses to open-ended questions fro…
A multilevel analysis of social capital and self-rated health
The Policy–Opinion Nexus
This study investigates the policy–opinion nexus in China. Using nationally representative survey data and propensity score matching, it examines the effect of policy on opinions in four welfare domains: pension, educational subsidies, health care, and minimum livelihood assistance. Our findings show that individuals’ experience with welfare policy tends to reinforce the idea that the government should take responsibility for welfare, and this ex…
Could more civil society involvement increase public support for climate policy-making? Evidence from a survey experiment in China
Selective responsiveness
Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation
An increasing number of scholars have established that authoritarian regimes employ quasi-democratic institutions as part of their efforts to retain power. However, we know little about the potential variation among institutions providing citizens with opportunities for voice and the conditions under which such institutions are true channels of responsiveness. In this article, we develop and test the concept of “receptivity,” that is, whether aut…
Political elites in deliberative democracy
Political leaders and elites play an enormous role in shaping a country's political development. Participatory and deliberative governance represents a major trend of political development around the world; while many studies focus on the ordinary people involved in public deliberation, little is known about the roles elites play in facilitating or impeding the progress of this deliberation. Utilizing a new survey on Chinese officials, we offer t…
From Internet to social safety net
Internet‐based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether participation through these platforms can actually enable citizens to influence policies. We address this question by studying the patterns and consequences of online participation at a major electronic petition platform in China, a country with the world's largest Interne…
The Paradox of Responsiveness and Social Protest in China
Prior studies regard responsiveness as an effective institution for Chinese government to mitigate social protests based on the premise that citizens adopt more institutionalized channels as soon as the regime makes it available. We challenge this notion by arguing that institutionalized and noninstitutionalized channels are not substituting but complements, and improving responsiveness to institutionalized participation may ironically lead to mo…
Geographical Leadership Mobility and Policy Isomorphism
The link between geographical leadership mobility and policy isomorphism is rarely discussed in the extant literature. We argue that the geographical leadership mobility encourages local executives to converge their development experiences in their original working jurisdictions and their current positions. The distinct Chinese political personnel system provides an ideal environment that allows researchers to examine the isomorphic effects of ge…
Corruption Experience and Public Perceptions of Anti-corruption Crackdowns
Government-Led or Public-Led? Chinese Policy Agenda Setting during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper compares government-led agenda and public-led agenda setting during the COVID-19 pandemic in China to investigate whether or not the pandemic enhances the government's role in agenda setting. Within-case comparison, aided by big data analysis and case study, finds an overall public-led pattern of agenda setting in China, and a mixture of government-led and public-led agenda setting during the pandemic. It is also found that Chinese gov…
When top-down meets bottom-up
Internet involvement, information consumption, and political participation in urban China
The issue of whether the internet promotes political participation has always been a hotly debated topic in academia. However, current research lacks an effective classification of the modes of internet use, and it does not analyze their effect on different forms of political participation. Based on data from the 2015 and 2018 waves of the China Urban Governance Survey, this study offers an examination of the internet usage behavior of Chinese ur…
Official Media as Emotional Valves
Social media is the most popular platform for the expression of public opinion, and it is a critical channel through which researchers can observe the dynamics and patterns of public opinion. This study explores the political origins of Chinese nationalism by focusing on how official media shapes mass nationalism in Cyber China. Analyzing 26 million Weibo posts made during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we found significant variations in na…
National Identity of Locality
The Nature of Ideology in Urban China
This article investigates whether the Chinese public possesses structured political preferences or ideology. We show that ideology in China is organized around a state- market economic dimension and an authoritarian-democratic political dimension. The most politically informed individuals are the least likely to constrain their ideological preferences to one dimension, which we argue is a product of the Party's propaganda efforts. We find that yo…
E-Government Use, Perceived Transparency, Public Knowledge of Government Performance, and Satisfaction with Government
Enhancing infrastructural dynamic responses to critical residents’ needs for urban resilience through machine learning and hypernetwork analysis
Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust
Research suggests that economic inequality reduces political trust after the public recognizes the inequality and perceives it as a failure of the political system in Western democracies. This study challenges this presumed “output evaluation model” (OEM) both theoretically and empirically. We provide an alternative mediator evaluation model (MEM) contending that objective inequality affects political trust through government-performance mediator…
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts
This paper examines Chinese K-pop fan communities’ responses to the 2016–2017 Korean Wave Ban, which restricted the circulation of Korean cultural materials amid diplomatic tensions. The study asks whether fan discourse – previously shaped by South Korea’s more democratic and individualistic environment – would shift toward state ideology or preserve alternative orientations once outside influences were curtailed. Drawing on a dataset of Weibo po…
Vertical and Horizontal Modes of Collaboration in Urban Governance
Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in digital China
With the emerging trend of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in various fields, AI ethics and its related incidents have aroused concern and caused wide discussion in both society and academia around the world. In this paper, we discuss AI ethics and governance with respect to public perspectives. Based on the existing literature, policies, and guidelines on AI ethics, we sorted AI ethics concerns into eight dimensions: safety, tra…
Conceptions of democracy in China
This article investigates popular conceptions of democracy and its underlying factors in China. Democratic conceptions among Chinese citizens have long been debated, with most concluding that economic welfare and government performance dominate how the Chinese view democracy. This article offers a different picture, with new evidence drawn from text data. By employing the structural topic model to analyze the responses to open-ended questions fro…
New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Industrial Workplace and Political Engagement in China
Many communist regimes have presided over episodes of rapid industrial development, often coupled by the establishment of a planned economic system wherein the state replaces the market as the primary provider of essential resources and services. We argue that life experience under a communist-style industrial workplace fosters a distinct and enduring set of norms and habits that shape how citizens engage with political authorities. Leveraging ex…
Digital Corporatism
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