DEPT OF POLITICS & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION



Researcher : Burns JP

Project Title:Policy coordination in three Chinese cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei
Investigator(s):Burns JP, Lam WF
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2006


Project Title:Contemporary China
Investigator(s):Burns JP, Yeh AGO
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:11/2013




Researcher : CHAN SWD

List of Research Outputs

CHAN S.W.D., Asymmetric bargaining between Myanmar and China in the Myitsone Dam controversy: social opposition akin to David's stone against Goliath, The Pacific Review. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, 30: 17.


Researcher : CHEN S

List of Research Outputs

CHEN S., Impact Investing in the Era of Collaborative Governance: An Empirical Study on Four Cases in Hong Kong, HKU. 2016.


Researcher : Chan JCW

Project Title:Social organizations and civic engagement: a typological study of organizational altruism and collaboration
Investigator(s):Chan JCW
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2002


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Chan JCW
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:02/2016




Researcher : Chan KN

Project Title:Organizing Opposition and Regime Support on Social Media: Evidence from the Hong Kong 2014 Protest
Investigator(s):Chan KN
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:10/2017


Project Title:Unpacking the Social Dynamics of Philanthropic Behaviors: A Big Data Analysis
Investigator(s):Chan KN, Chan EYM, Lam WF
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2017


Project Title:2017 Environmental Politics and Governance Conference; The Politics of Environmental Monitoring: Evidence from Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chan KN
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017




Researcher : Cheung PTY

Project Title:2000 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Implementing the 1994 Fiscal Reform in China's Provinces
Investigator(s):Cheung PTY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2000


Project Title:American Political Science Association 2012 Annual Meeting Toward collaborative governance? An analysis of the emerging intergovernmental coordination in south China
Investigator(s):Cheung PTY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2012


Project Title:The Politics of the Policy Process in Implementing the Industrial Planning Policy in the Pearl River Delta
Investigator(s):Cheung PTY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Governing Cross-boundary Cooperation in South China: Politics, Policy and Intergovernmental Relations
Investigator(s):Cheung PTY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016




Researcher : Chiu Y

Project Title:Combat Contractualism: A Liberal Theory of Warfare
Investigator(s):Chiu Y
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Post-Modern Warfare and the Ethics of a “Fair Fight”
Investigator(s):Chiu Y
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016; Political Theory Beyond the Nation-State
Investigator(s):Chiu Y
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2016
Completion Date:09/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chiu Y., Democracy without Autonomy: Moral & Personal Autonomy in Democratic Confucianism, Philosophy East and West. 2017, 67(1).


Researcher : Hu RW

Project Title:Internatioal Studies Association (ISA) 55th annual convention; Big Power Rivalry and Source of Strategic Distrust: the Case of Sino-U.S. Relations in East Asia
Investigator(s):Hu WR
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Hu WR

Project Title:Internatioal Studies Association (ISA) 55th annual convention; Big Power Rivalry and Source of Strategic Distrust: the Case of Sino-U.S. Relations in East Asia
Investigator(s):Hu WR
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Hu W.R., China And The United States In The Asia Pacific: Towards A New Model Or New Normal Of Major Power Relations?, China: An International Journal . Singapore, NUS Press, 2017, 15:1: 21-40.
Hu W.R., China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Strategy: Opportunity Or Challenge For India?, China Report. Sage Journals, 2017, 53:2: 1-18.


Researcher : KWONG YH

List of Research Outputs

KWONG Y.H., State-Society Conflict Radicalization in Hong Kong: The Rise of "Anti-China" Sentiment and Radical Localism, Asian Affairs. London, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, 2016, 47: 14.
KWONG Y.H., The Growth Of "Localism" in Hong Kong: A New Path for The Democracy Movement? , China Perspectives. Hong Kong, The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, 2016, 16: 5.


Researcher : LIU K-L

List of Research Outputs

LIU K.-.L., Exploring Lending Patterns for Information Asymmetry between Lenders and Borrowers in the Nonprofit and Forprofit Peer-to-peer Lending Platforms, HKU. 2016.


Researcher : LO WF

List of Research Outputs

Chick H.L. and LO W.F., Ecological survey for Sustainable Lai Chi Wo, 「營造生物棲息地帶,構 建生態農業經濟」論壇, 2016.
Hau C.H., Law W.W.Y., Chow W.C., Leung S.H., Leung H.S., Yiu S.I.S., LO W.F. and MAK Y.L., Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2017, Faculty of Science, HKU: Global Forest Observatory: Pubic Involvement and Training in Scientific Research in Hong Kong, Dr. Billy C.H. Hau, School of Biological Sciences, HKU. 2017.


Researcher : Lam WF

Project Title:Institutional Nesting and Robustness in Common-Pool Resource Management: A Comparative Study of Irrigation Institutions in Nepal and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Lam WF
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2010


Project Title:Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study
Investigator(s):Lam WF, Lam SF, Lee MSY, Wong PWC
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust - General Award
Start Date:09/2016


List of Research Outputs

Lam W.F. and Li W., Network Structure, Resource Availability, and Innovation: A Study of the Adoption of Innovation in Elderly Services in Shanghai, Public Service Innovations in China. Palgrave, 2017, 43-68.


Researcher : Lam WM

Project Title:50th Annual Convention of ISA Sustaining Cosmopolitanism: The Role of International Organizations in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lam WM
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:02/2009


Project Title:Collective Demobilization: The Politics of Blame Attribution in State Enterprise Reform
Investigator(s):Lam WM
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Lam WM
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2011




Researcher : Lee EWY

Project Title:Social Movement Dynamics in Hong Kong: The Case of a Hybrid Regime
Investigator(s):Lee EWY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:09/2017


Project Title:12th International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research ; Social Movement in a Hybrid Regime: The Case of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lee EWY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:07/2016




Researcher : Liu HK

Project Title:Explaining collaborative service, network structure, and clients' outcomes of public services providers in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Beijing
Investigator(s):Liu HK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Crowdsourcing Design: A Synthesis of Literatures across Disciplines
Investigator(s):Liu HK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2017
Completion Date:01/2017


Project Title:Exploring the Motivations, Designs, and Outcomes of Peer to Peer Lending for Social Innovation in Greater China
Investigator(s):Liu HK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


Project Title:Exploring the Motivations, Incentive Designs, and Performance of Open Innovation in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Liu HK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Kilonzo S., Sandfort R. and Liu H.K., Using Multimedia Learning Objects in Public Affairs Classrooms: Global Experiences with Hubert Project E-Cases and E-Studies, Journal of Public Affairs Education. 2016, 22: 345–362.


Researcher : Mang FLF

List of Research Outputs

Mang F.L.F., Public Reason Can Be Reasonably Rejected, Social Theory and Practice. 2017, 43: 343-367.


Researcher : NIE L

List of Research Outputs

NIE L., Transparency of Foundations in China, HKU. 2017.


Researcher : Quek CK

Project Title:How to Deescalate: How China Retreats in International Crises
Investigator(s):Quek CK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2016


Project Title:China, Japan, and the Dynamics of De-escalation: Understanding and Managing the Political Costs of Backing Down
Investigator(s):Quek CK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:08/2016


Project Title:American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016; Crisis Management in the Shadow of Audience Costs
Investigator(s):Quek CK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2016
Completion Date:09/2016


Project Title:Rationalist Causes of War
Investigator(s):Quek CK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Quek C.K., Are Costly Signals More Credible? Evidence of Sender-Receiver Gaps, The Journal of Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2016, 78: 925-940.


Researcher : Richardson CJ

Project Title:Global South Leadership and Great Power Legitimacy: India in the UN Peacekeeping Regime
Investigator(s):Richardson CJ
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Rethinking the Role of Regional Organisations for Chinas Stance on UN Intervention'
Investigator(s):Richardson CJ
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2015




Researcher : Scicluna NB

List of Research Outputs

Auer S. and Scicluna N.B., Framing a new world order? The Sino-Russian Challenge to the West, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies. The University of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association, 2016, 30: 113-141.


Researcher : Sohn IJ

Project Title:International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference ; 1. China’s Use of Anti-dumping Measures in a Comparative Perspective, 2002-2010/2. Groping for stone to cross the river": China's approach toward RMB internationalization
Investigator(s):Sohn IJ
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013




Researcher : Steinhoff UB

Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Steinhoff UB
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:Just War Theory and the Ethics of Violence: Foundations and Applications
Investigator(s):Steinhoff UB
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016
Completion Date:04/2017


Project Title:Conference on Self Defense; Just War Theory and the Ethics of Violence: Foundations and Applications
Investigator(s):Steinhoff UB
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Steinhoff U.B., Is There a Duty to Militarily Intervene to Stop a Genocide?, In: Christian Neuhäuser and Christoph Schuck, Military Interventions: Considerations from Philosophy and Political Science. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2017, 59-80.
Steinhoff U.B., Is There a Duty to Militarily Intervene to Stop a Genocide, Restraint in War – Necessary for a Lasting Peace. 2017.
Steinhoff U.B., When may soldiers participate in war?, International Theory. 2016, 8: 236-261.


Researcher : Tang JTH

Project Title:International Studies Association Annual Convention, 2008 From Traditional to Non-Traditional Security: Energy in China's International Relations
Investigator(s):Tang JTH
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2008




Researcher : Wang KQ

Project Title:World Congress of Political Science Constructivism, Socialization and Hegemony: Postwar Japan's China Policy and the United States
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2000


Project Title:2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Integration into the World Economy and China's New Reforms: Explaining The Sino-US Agreement on China's Accession to WTO
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2002


Project Title:The prospect of a Sino-Japanese free trade area
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for New Staff
Start Date:10/2002




Researcher : Wang QK

Project Title:World Congress of Political Science Constructivism, Socialization and Hegemony: Postwar Japan's China Policy and the United States
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2000


Project Title:2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Integration into the World Economy and China's New Reforms: Explaining The Sino-US Agreement on China's Accession to WTO
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2002


Project Title:The prospect of a Sino-Japanese free trade area
Investigator(s):Wang QK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for New Staff
Start Date:10/2002




Researcher : XIN G

List of Research Outputs

XIN G., Bootstrapping Public Participation in the Global South: Participatory Budgeting Reforms in Brazil, China and South Africa, HKU. 2016.


Researcher : Yan X

Project Title:Reforming Authoritarianism: Pathways of Local Political Reform in Post-Deng China
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Authoritarian Political Control over University Students in Post-Deng China
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:The Quest for Stability: Policing Popular Protest in the People’s Republic of China
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Housing Welfare under Authoritarianism: The Low Rent Housing Program in the Municipality of Chongqing
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Party State vs. University Students: A Comparative Study of Political Control in Institutions of Higher Education in Mainland China
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:The Implementation of “One Country Two Systems” in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Yan X, Chen AHY, Hu WR, Lee EWY, Wong YHM, Zhu J, Tian X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:02/2017




Researcher : Yee WH

Project Title:Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: A Study of China’s Food Safety Regulation
Investigator(s):Yee WH
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:24th World Congress of Political Science; Implementing the Food Regulatory Reform in China: A Policy Capacity Perspective
Investigator(s):Yee WH
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

Li H. and Yee W.H., Decentralisation, Governing Institutions and Economic Development in Indonesia, In: Khee Giap Tan, Nurina Merdikawati, Mulya Amri, Kong Yam Tan, 2015 Agricultural Productivity, Decentralisation, and Competitiveness Analysis for Provinces and Regions of Indonesia. World Scientific, 2017, 67-98.


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