Collaborative Governance in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Introductory Essay

ABSTRACT

This symposium explores collaborative governance in Mainland China and Hong Kong across an array of different goods and services, including local community services, national disaster insurance, social services, and sustainable development. Past research demonstrates that collaborative governance can be imposed, induced, or organically created. According to this symposium's four pieces, all three dynamics are in play in influencing collaborative activity in the delivery of these services in China. In this introductory essay we begin by highlighting the major contributions of these pieces to our understanding of collaborative governance in Mainland China and Hong Kong. We follow this summary by recommending important lines of research on collaborative governance in China. We conclude by suggesting approaches that scholars can take to unlock new insights given the research challenges that China presents.

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Authors listed alphabetically. This introductory essay is the result of the joint efforts of the three symposium editors.

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For an example of how this can be done, see Hock, Andersen, and Potoski (2012).

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Notes on contributors

Trevor L. Brown ¹

Trevor Brown ([email protected]) is Associate Professor at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Public Policy and Political Science from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on public management and organizational theory, contracting and contract management, and strategic management and performance measurement.

Ting Gong

Ting Gong ([email protected]) is Professor at City University of Hong Kong. She earned her MA and PhD from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. Her research interests cover corruption and anti-corruption reform, post-communist transformation, and integrity management. She is the author of the first English book-length study of China's corruption, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes. Her most recent book, Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity (co-edited with Stephen K. Ma), was published by Routledge (UK) in 2009.

Yijia Jing

Yijia Jing ([email protected]) is Professor in Public Administration and Associate Dean of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University. He earned his BA and MA in economics from Peking University, an MA in sociology from University of Maryland, and a PhD in public policy from the Ohio State University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, collaborative service delivery, and comparative public administration. He is particularly interested in the formation, performance, and consequences of collaborative governance in transitional countries and is the Director of the Center for Collaborative Governance Research at Fudan University.