DEPT OF POLITICS & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION



Researcher : AUNG SMT

List of Research Outputs

AUNG S.M.T., Governing the Transition: Policy Coordination Mechanisms in the Myanmar Core Executive, 2011-2016, HKU. 2017.


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 : CHEN Y

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Y., Government-led Collaborative Actions under China’s Environmental Authoritarianism: A Comparative Study of Two Lake Watersheds in Yunnan Province, 2018.


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


Project Title:Confucian Political Theory, a panel at MANCEPT Workshop; Equality or Hierarchy? Toward a Confucian Perspective
Investigator(s):Chan JCW
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2017
Completion Date:09/2017




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 for New Staff
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
Completion Date:10/2018


List of Research Outputs

Chan K.N. and Lam W.F., Bureaucratic Control and Information Processing: An Institutional Comparison, Governance. 2017, 31: 575-592.
Chan K.N., Zhu J. and Kang S., The Logic of Central Inspection in China’s Anticorruption Campaign, The 9th Sino-US International Conference for Public Administration. 2018.


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: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
Completion Date:11/2017


Project Title:Governing Cross-boundary Cooperation in South China: Politics, Policy and Intergovernmental Regimes
Investigator(s):Cheung PTY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Cheung P.T.Y., Can 'one Country, Two Systems' Continue To Weather Hong Kong's Political Storms?, In: Peter Drysdale and Shiro Armstrong, East Asia Forum . Sydney, Australian Natioonal University, 2017.
Cheung P.T.Y., Governance and Policy of the Greater Bay Area in South China, "Rethinking the Role of Government in Relation to Civil Society" International Conference, BK21 Plus Program, Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Jeju, Dec. 15-17, 2017.
Cheung P.T.Y., Governance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area: Issues and challenges, Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, Hang Seng Management College, Oct. 21, 2017.
Cheung P.T.Y., In Beijing’s Tightening Grip: Changing Mainland-Hong Kong Relations amid Integration and Confrontation, In: Brian C.H. Fong and Tai-lok Lui, Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover: Emerging Social and Institutional Fractures After 1997. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 255-286.
Cheung P.T.Y. and Leung Y.M.E., The Changing Industrial Transformation in the Pearl River Delta: Issues, Challenges and Intergovernmental Coordination, Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 13-47.
Cheung P.T.Y., The Changing Patterns of Civic Engagement and Governance in Hong Kong , 2018 International Political Science Association World Congress of Political Science, Brisbane, July 21-25, 2018 . 2018.
Lah T.,.J... and Jing Y.I.J.I.A., Cheung P.T.Y., Public Policy And Administration In An Era Of Expansion: China, South Korea And Hong Kong, In: Thomas R. Klassen, Denit Cepiku and T.J. Lah, Handbook Of Global Public Policy And Administration. London, Routledge, 2017, 58-69.


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




Researcher : Chow W

Project Title:Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science; Economic Crises, Anxiety, and the Rise of Populism
Investigator(s):Chow W
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chow W. and Kono Y.K., Entry, Vulnerability, and Trade Policy: Why Some Autocrats Like International Trade, In: Daniel H. Nexon, Terrence Chapman, Giacomo Chiozza, Catherine Langlois, and Abraham L. Newman, International Studies Quarterly. 2017, 61: 892–906.


Researcher : FENG Y

List of Research Outputs

FENG Y., Individuals in the Political: A Study on Hanna Pitkin’s Theory of Political Action, 2018.


Researcher : GORMAN PCL

List of Research Outputs

GORMAN P.C.L., Weibo and the Outsourcing of Opinion Guidance, 2017.


Researcher : Han E

List of Research Outputs

Han E., Bifurcated homeland and diaspora politics in China and Taiwan towards the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2017, 1-18.
Han E. and O'Mahoney J., British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality: Queens, Crime and Empire. 2018.
Han E., Under the Shadow of China-US Competition: Myanmar and Thailand’s Alignment Choices, The Chinese Journal of International Politics. 2018, 11: 81-104.


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


Project Title:International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference; Trust and Distrust in International Relations: the case of China-U.S. relations
Investigator(s):Hu WR
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2018
Completion Date:04/2018




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


Project Title:International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference; Trust and Distrust in International Relations: the case of China-U.S. relations
Investigator(s):Hu WR
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2018
Completion Date:04/2018




Researcher : KWONG YH

List of Research Outputs

KWONG Y.H. and WONG W..., Political Marketing in Macao: A Solution to Legitimacy Gap for a Hybrid Regime?, Asian Survey. Oakland, University of California Press, 2017, 57.
Wong Y.H.M. and KWONG Y.H., State size and democratization in hybrid regimes: the Chinese island cities of Macau and Hong Kong., Island Studies Journal. Charlottetown PE, Institute of Island Studies, 2017.


Researcher : Kim JE

Project Title:Private investment building renewable energy infrastructure in developing countries
Investigator(s):Kim JE
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:06/2015
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:Explaining the role of ownership in building capacity: evidences from foreign aid in the energy sector
Investigator(s):Kim JE
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2017




Researcher : LEUNG YM

List of Research Outputs

LEUNG Y.M., Industrial Restructuring in China: An Institutional Analysis of State-Society Relations and its Policy Impacts, 2018.


Researcher : LI Y

List of Research Outputs

LI Y., CHEN S. and YAO Q., The Cost of Industrial Leap Forward in China: Evidence from SO2 and Public Health, China Economic Review. Elsevier, 2018, 49 (C) June, 68-83.


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


Project Title:An Institutional Analysis of Information Processing in Public Policy in China: A Study of Policy Attention and Agenda in Limited Authoritarianism
Investigator(s):Lam WF, Chan KN
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


List of Research Outputs

Chan K.N. and Lam W.F., Bureaucratic Control and Information Processing: An Institutional Comparison, Governance. 2017, 31: 575-592.


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:The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; Governance Crisis, Protracted Transition, and the Rise of Indirect Rule in Hong Kong, 2003-2012
Investigator(s):Lee EWY
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2018




Researcher : Leung YME

List of Research Outputs

Cheung P.T.Y. and Leung Y.M.E., The Changing Industrial Transformation in the Pearl River Delta: Issues, Challenges and Intergovernmental Coordination, Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 13-47.


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: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
Completion Date:05/2018


Project Title:Understanding the network effects of the IT-based social innovation competition on participants’ performance in the public and nonprofit sectors
Investigator(s):Liu HK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Liu H.K., An Analysis of the Social Process in Ideas Generation for Public Policies, Information Polity. 2017, 22.
Liu H.K., Crowdsourcing Government: Lessons from Multiple Disciplines, Public Administration Review. 2017, 77: 656–667.
Liu H.K., Harrison Y., Lungo K. and Lai J., From In-person Volunteering to Online-volunteering, In: David H. Smith, Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations. 2017.


Researcher : MENG W

List of Research Outputs

MENG W., Explaining the Variation of the Grand Strategies of the Imperial China: Material Capability, Confucian Culture and the Interest Conflict, 2018.


Researcher : QIU Q

List of Research Outputs

QIU Q., Innovation of Manufacturing Industries in the Pearl River Delta Region, 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
Completion Date:02/2018


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: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


Project Title:American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2017; Signaling Effect Reversed
Investigator(s):Quek CK
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:09/2017


List of Research Outputs

Bell M. and Quek C.K., Authoritarian Public Opinion and the Democratic Peace, International Organization. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 72: 227-242.
Quek C.K. and Johnston A.I., Can China Back Down? Crisis Deescalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition, International Security. MIT Press, 2018, 42: 7-36.
Quek C.K., Type II Audience Costs, The Journal of Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2017, 79: 1438-1443.


Researcher : RESTREPO CADAVID JM

List of Research Outputs

RESTREPO CADAVID J.M., Scaling up Social Innovation: The Case of Escuela Nueva in Colombia and BRAC Education Programme in Bangladesh, 2018.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:09/2017


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


Project Title:International Studies Association Annual Meeting 2018; China and the Dilemma of Intervention at the UN Security Council, 2000 to 2015
Investigator(s):Richardson CJ
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:China and the Responsibility to Protect: the Case of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Investigator(s):Richardson CJ
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018




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:Diverse Perspectives on Military Ethics in Asia and the Pacific; The Misleading Self-Defense Paradigm for the Justification of Harming in War
Investigator(s):Steinhoff UB
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


Project Title:Special Issues in the Ethics of War: Guerrillas, Warlords, Drones, Mercenaries, Preventive War, and Humanitarian Intervention
Investigator(s):Steinhoff UB
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


List of Research Outputs

Steinhoff U.B., Against a “Combined Liability-Lesser-Evil Justification”, Philosophia. 2018.
Steinhoff U.B., Bennett, intention and the DDE – The sophisticated bomber as pseudo-problem, Analysis. 2017.
Steinhoff U.B., Just Cause and the Continuous Application of Jus Ad Bellum, In: Larry May, The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 80-97.
Steinhoff U.B., Proportionality in Self-Defense, The Journal of Ethics. 2017, 21: 263-289.
Steinhoff U.B., Saba Bazargan-Forward and Samuel C. Rickless (eds.), The Ethics of War: Essays, 2017.
Steinhoff U.B., The Secret to the Success of the Doctrine of Double Effect (and Related Principles): Biased Framing, Inadequate Methodology, and Clever Distractions, The Journal of Ethics. 2018.
Steinhoff U.B., Wild Goose Chase: Still No Rationales for the Doctrine of Double Effect and Related Principles, Criminal Law and Philosophy. 2018.


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 G

List of Research Outputs

WANG G., Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities: A Case Study of the Perspectives of Policy Makers in Hong Kong, 2018.


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 : Wong YHM

Project Title:Comparing Coalition Politics: Beijing’s Co-optation Strategies in Hong Kong and Macao
Investigator(s):Wong YHM
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2017
Completion Date:05/2018


Project Title:A Survey Experiment on Discontent Among the Youth: Welfare or Politics?
Investigator(s):Wong YHM
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:01/2017
Completion Date:01/2018


Project Title:Reassessing the Effects of Democracy on Income Inequality and Redistribution
Investigator(s):Wong YHM
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Wong Y.H.M., Ruling Coalition Restructuring under Macao's Hybrid Regime., China Review. Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, 2017, 17:3.
Wong Y.H.M. and KWONG Y.H., State size and democratization in hybrid regimes: the Chinese island cities of Macau and Hong Kong., Island Studies Journal. Charlottetown PE, Institute of Island Studies, 2017.


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: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


Project Title:Fighting the Gunpowder-less War: A Comparative Study of the Conceptualization and Practice of Cultural Security in China and Saudi Arabia
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:How Does China Mobilise Support for the Regime Beyond the Boundary Mark: A Resource Mobilisation Perspective
Investigator(s):Yan X
Department:Politics & Public Administration
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2018




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 for New Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Yee W.H. and Li H., Unpacking the “political-institutional complex”: The role of physical and institutional infrastructures in Indonesia’s decentralization reform, Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development. 2018, 2: 174-192.


Researcher : Zhu J

Project Title:Authoritarianism in a Quasi-Competitive Information Context: Internet Access to (Anti)Corruption News and Political Trust in China
Investigator(s):Zhu J
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2014
Completion Date:01/2018


Project Title:4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing; Break the Breaking News: How the Government Uses Political Rumors to Prepare Public Anticipation in China
Investigator(s):Zhu J
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2017
Completion Date:10/2017


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Zhu J
Department:Social Sciences Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chan K.N., Zhu J. and Kang S., The Logic of Central Inspection in China’s Anticorruption Campaign, The 9th Sino-US International Conference for Public Administration. 2018.
Zhu J. and Zhang D., 2017 HKU Research Output Prize , The University of Hong Kong . USA, Sage Publications, 2017, 50: 1186-1220.
Zhu J., Big Tigers, Big Data:” Learning Social Reactions to China’s Anticorruption Campaign through Online Feedback, 政治科學理論與方法前沿系列講座 第10期,清華大學, 2018.
Zhu J., Big Tigers, Big Data:” Learning Social Reactions to China’s Anticorruption Campaign through Online Feedback, 廉政與公共治理前湖論壇之名家講座,南昌大學, 2018.
Zhu J., Co-organized the international conference, "Re-Thinking China’s North" with colleagues of the China Studies , China Studies, HKU. 2017.
Zhu J., Leading organizing the workshop, "the Second Workshop of Quantitative Political Science Research in Hong Kong", PPA department, HKU. 2018.
Zhu J. and Zhang D., Political Dynamics of Elite Collaboration in China, Annual Conference of Southern Political Science Association. USA, 2018.
Zhu J., ad hoc reviewer, American Political Science Review. 2018.
Zhu J., ad hoc reviewer, British Journal of Political Science . 2018.
Zhu J., ad hoc reviewer, International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 2017.
Zhu J., ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics. 2018.
Zhu J., 香港廉政公署的历史、发展和挑战, 日本法政大学廉政建设研讨会, Japan, 2017.
Zhu J., 改革開放40年: 廉政建設的演變之路, 澎湃新聞, 2018.


Researcher : van Gevelt TA

List of Research Outputs

Larcom S. and van Gevelt T.A., Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England, Environmental and Resource Economics. 2018.
McGrane S., Acuto M., Artioli F., Chen P.Y., Comber R., Cottee J., Farr-Wharton G., Helfgott A., Larcom S., McCann J., O'Reilly P., Salmoral G., Scott M., Todman L., van Gevelt T.A. and Yan X., Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analyzing water, energy and food, The Geographical Journal. 2018.
van Gevelt T.A., 'Hidden' institutional barriers to rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa, Development Studies Association 2018 General Conference. 2018.
van Gevelt T.A., Canales Holzeis C., Fennell S., Heap B., Holmes J., Hurley Depret M., Jones B. and Safdar M.T., Achieving universal energy access and rural development through smart villages, Energy for Sustainable Development. Elsevier, 2018, 43: 139-142.
van Gevelt T.A., Associate Editor, Energy for Sustainable Development. 2018.
van Gevelt T.A., German-South East Asian Centre of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University. 2017.


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