JCC — pp. 1-21 2026-09-19 Original Redefining China’s Approach to AI Governance: Beyond Top-Down, Government-Led, and Command-and-Control
Xinhua Fu, Tao Huang
PMR — pp. 1-32 2026-09-16 Original From co-production to value co-creation: NGOs as catalysts of cyclical public value in rural China
Jingjing Cai, Kaisar Kaher
Abstract
This study explores how NGOs facilitate the transition from co-production to value co-creation in rural ecological governance through a case study of the Guanba River Basin, China. Drawing on qualitative evidence and social network analysis, it reveals that NGOs’ front-loaded participation in problem framing, planning, and rule formation creates institutional and relational foundations for collaborative governance. Beyond boundary-spanning roles, NGOs function as institutional intermediaries that reshape governance arrangements and enhance local capacity. Value co-creation emerges through institutional embeddedness, actor absorption, and adaptive governance within a recursive ecosystem. This study provides an institutionally grounded explanation of how externally facilitated co-production evolves into locally sustained value co-creation.
JPART — 2026-09-14
Original Cross-Source Corroboration and the Dynamics of Local Government Attention: Evidence from an Emerging Policy Field
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
PA — 2026-09-09
Original How Were Governance Pathways Formed for Public Service Co‐Production? A Contingency Perspective
PSJ 54/4 2026-09-09
Original Balancing Particularism and Universalism in Welfare Policy: Insights From China's Hukou Reform
Liu Chen, Tom Christensen, Xufeng Zhu
Abstract
ABSTRACT Welfare policies often combine particularistic and universalistic elements, yet we know less about how shifts in this balance shape public attitudes toward vulnerable low‐status groups. This article develops a three‐dimensional framework for analyzing welfare policy, distinguishing among welfare scope, welfare benefits, and inclusion criteria. We argue that public attitudes toward lower‐status groups are shaped by the combined signal about the welfare deservingness hierarchy generated by the configuration of particularistic and universalistic elements across these dimensions. Because policy design packages convey a broader normative stance about who belongs and who deserves, they can influence perceptions of groups that are not directly targeted by a policy change, lowering or raising their perceived deservingness. Using difference‐in‐differences and regression discontinuity methods, we analyze Weibo posts during China's two‐round hukou reform. We find that shifts toward more particularistic policy configurations lead to more negative attitudes toward low‐skilled migrant workers, whereas shifts toward more universalistic configurations yield more positive attitudes. Subgroup analyses yield suggestive patterns across local economic contexts and individual characteristics. These findings have broader implications for research on welfare policy systems and for reform efforts regarding social integration.
JCC — pp. 1-18 2026-09-08 Original Chinese Intellectual Influencers and the Construction of Algorithmized Nationalism: The Case of Jinri Toutiao
Haiyan Wang, Zhengqing Yan, Lin Wu, Carwyn Morris
PMR — pp. 1-27 2026-09-08 Original A fish rots from the head down: unpacking the trickle-down effect of leaders’ unethical pro-organizational behaviour (UPB) in the Chinese public sector
PA — 2026-09-07
Original How Artificial Intelligence Facilitates Collaborative Governance? Research on Mechanisms and Multi‐Dimensional Effects Based on Triple Entities
CQ — pp. 1-17 2026-09-07 Original Balancing Accommodation and Authority: Husbands’ Family Strategies in Transnational Marriages in North-East China
JCC — pp. 1-15 2026-09-05 Original How Does Integrated Ethnic Education Policy Affect Tibetan Students’ National Identity?