The 32ndAssociation of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS)
Annual Meeting and International Symposium
Visions of China's Future Governance:
An International Perspective
June 22-23, 2019
Hangzhou, China
Hosted By:
School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University
The Association of Chinese Political Studies
Journal of Chinese Governance
Venue:
3rd Floor, Zijingang International Hotel
(Zijin Hall No.4 for DP Panels, and Zijin Hall No.2 for IR Panels)
Conference Programs
Saturday, June 22
9:00-10:15
Panel DP1: Government Performance and Political Trust
Chair: Jiebing Wu (Zhejiang University)
1. Examining the Relationship between Public Environmental Concern and Trust in Government: Evidence from China
2. The CPC’s Discourse of Political Legitimacy in the Xi Era
3. Rural to Urban Migration, Inequality, and Political Trust in Contemporary China
4. Feedback: Disaster Response and Performance Attribution
Discussant: Yumin Sheng (Wayne State University)
Panel IR1: China’s Response to Nontraditional Security Dilemmas
Chair: Haifeng Huang (University of California, Merced)
1. Security Dilemmas and China's Approach to the Management of Transboundary Water Risks?
2. Championing Democracy in China: The Effects of the American Embassy’s Social Media Operations
3. Comparative Perspectives on Populist Challenges to Global Governance
4. China’s Critical Approaches to the Spread of International Populism
Discussant: Greg Moore (University of Nottingham, Ningbo)
10:30-11:45
Panel DP2: Governance in Land Administration and Urbanization in China
Chair: Hui Wang (Zhejiang University)
1. Subnational Decentralization in China: Evidence from Compensation Policy for Loss of Land
2. Public Good Contributions of Village Leaders and Villager Welfare in Resettlement: Lab in the Field
3. Central Authority, Local Elite Group and the Pace of Land Market Reform in China
4. From Managing to Governing: Theory and Evidence from Empowering Chinese Homeowners
Discussant: Meina Cai (University of Connecticut) and Hui Wang (Zhejiang University)
Panel IR2: China’s Global Strategies
Chair: Liwen Zhang (Zhejiang University)
1. China and World Health
2. The Confucius Institute and China’s Global Interests: A Large-N Analysis
3. Three Modes of China’s Participation in the UN Peacekeeping Operations
4. Relationality as Bounded/Sinic yet Universal
Discussant: Elizabeth Wishnick (Montclair State University)
13:15-14:45
Feng Zhu's Talk(Nanjing University)
15:00-16:15
Panel DP3: Reconceptualizing State-Bureaucracy Relations in China
Chair: Denise van der Kamp (City University of Hong Kong)
1. Governance by Uncertainty: Bureaucratic Control and Irregular Policy Implementation in China
2. Performativity and Innovation: Policy Entrepreneurs in China’s Search for the Urban Community
3. Online Consultation and the Institutionalization of Governance Reform in China
Discussant: Jessica C. Teets (Middlebury College)
Panel IR3: Foreign Aid and Investment
Chair: Hanzhi Yu (Zhejiang University)
1. Outside-In and Inside-Out: Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Governance
2. Is China a Norm Taker or Norm Maker? Empirical Evidence from China’s Foreign Aid Policy in the New Century
3. Political Uncertainty and Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States?
4. China’s Tourism Statecraft –Motives, Methods and Consequences
Discussant: Wei Liang (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)
16:30-18:00
Jianxing Yu's Talk(Zhejiang University)
Sunday, June 23
9:00-10:15
Panel DP4: Governance Innovation
Chair: Jessica C. Teets (Middlebury College)
1. City Brain sand Smart Urbanization: Governance Innovation in China
2.Innovation for Policy Efficiency or Party Supremacy? Examining China’s Performance Evaluation System
3. When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up: Local Adoption of Social Policy Reform in China
4. Learning from Abroad and Reforming Urban Renewal: An Assessment Based on the Case of Yangzhou
Discussant: Xiang Gao (Zhejiang University)
Panel IR4: China’s Geo-economic Strategy
Chair: Gaoming Ma (Zhejiang University)
1. China’s Geo-economic Strategy in Southeast Asia: The Role of Chinese Local Governments
2. Mutual Pperceptions and Their Role in the Development of Sino-Russian Relations
3. A Strategic Recalibration? China’s North Korea Policy in the Era of Uncertainty
4. China’s Middle East Policy: Old Wine in the New Bottle?
Discussant: Jing Chen (Hartwick College)
10:30-11:45
Panel DP5: State-society Relations and Responsive Governance
Chair: Yongdong Shen (Zhejiang University)
1. Sandwich Strategy in China’s Environmental Governance: Top-down Authority and Bottom-up Participation
2. Research on the Policy Implementation Process of Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Village L: From the Perspective of 'State in Society' Theory
3. From Developmental State to Developmental Party-State: Anti-Corruption, Power Centralization, and China’s Approach to Transforming Its Economic Model
4. Breaking through the Linguistic Barrier: A Study of Governmental Efforts at Migration Cost Reduction
Discussant: Steve Balla (George Washington University)
Panel IR5: New Trends in China’s Global Governance
Chair: Huisheng Shou (Tsinghua University)
1. Bringing Competition to Regional Development Banks: What Does It Mean for Global Governance and Development?
2. US-China Rivalry: The Contention of Two Different Political Systems and Its Impact on the World
3. Relational Governance is Easier Said than Done? Evidence from Malaysia’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
4. China's Search for Peaceful Internationalism in Xi Jinping's Era: National Identity and Foreign Policy
Discussant: Sheng Ding (Bloomsburg University)
13:30-14:45
Panel DP6: Managing the Military and State Cadres
Chair: Yumin Sheng (Wayne State University)
1. Local Commitment of City Leaders and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Panel Data of Chinese Prefecture City
2. The Multiple Dimensions of China's Global Energy Governance
3. Information, Patronage, and the Political Control of the Generals: Evidence from Rreform-era China
4. The Chinese Military as Modernization Agent? Continuing the Debate on Role of Military in Non-Military Missions
Discussant: Ciqi Mei (Tsinghua University)
Panel IR6: Global Influence and Domestic Governance in China
Chair: Sheng Ding (Bloomsburg University)
1. Making a Balance between Maintaining Domestic Stability and Promoting Geopolitical Interest: China’s New Intermestic Policy Challenges of Immigration
2. Centralization for International Competition: The Role of the State in China’s High-speed Rail Development
3. Economic Openness, Economic Insecurity and Demand for Social Protection: Evidence from China
4. China’s Regional Integration Strategy in Eurasia: Implications for the CPC’s Domestic Legitimacy
Discussant: Mingjiang Li (Nanyang Technological University)
15:00-16:15
Panel DP7: Participatory Governance
Chair: Shizong Wang (Zhejiang University)
1. Social Organizing after the Charity Law: Attempts at Institution-Building and the Evolving Government-Social Organization Relationship
2. Homeowner Associations and the Future Community Governance in Urban China
3. Governing the “Middle Kingdom” from the Periphery: How Non-Communist Parties Contribute to National Governance in the Communist China?
4. How China Expands Social Insurance Coverage: The Informal Sector as a Testing Ground
Discussant:Jun Zhou (East China Normal University)
Panel IR7: Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative
Chair: Youxing Lang (Zhejiang University)
1. Soft Law Governance: Belt and Road Initiative Case Sstudy
2. One Belt One Road: Navigating Religious Sensitivities in ASEAN
3. Who is More Active and Why? Visualizing States’ Participation Levels in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
4. China's Belt and Road Initiative: New Battlefield for International Order or Testing Ground for Global Governance Innovation?
Discussant: Ka Zeng (University of Arkansas)