The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has attracted growing interest
among stakeholders in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Chinese …

This article explores the way in which Russian and Chinese governments have rearticulated
global trends towards active citizenship and participatory governance, and integrated them …

Faced with the challenges posed by enhancing the performance of national waste
management policy, sub-national political authorities in China have engaged with the public …

The prevailing paradigm of traditional top-down urban renewal has been criticized for failing
to consider diverse public requests and preferences. This critique has prompted a “human …

This article shows how the Indonesian new developmental state addresses gender equality
and women's empowerment in its effort to institutionalise a participatory approach in the …

Environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
emerged in China over the last decade amidst the growing focus on environmental issues …

Policy making in authoritarian regimes is assumed to be exclusive. The selective use of
experts in China questions that assumption. Through three case studies from Hangzhou …

Multi-stakeholder co-governance is essential for boosting governance performance and
fostering grassroots governance innovation. In exploring Shenzhen's livelihood-related …

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the grassroots practice of the “whole-process
people's democracy”(WPD) raised by the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping …

This contribution applies the Q methodology to investigate Chinese public employees'
accountability preferences under different accountability relationships in delivering public …