This study examines how crisis response timing (pre-crisis vs. post-crisis), sequence (no prioritization, defensive prioritization, accommodative prioritization), and tempo (fast-paced vs. slow-paced) affect public perception of local government reputation. Through a 2 x 3 x 2 factorial experiment (n = 1520), results reveal that pre-crisis risk communication, accommodative prioritization, and fast-paced responses significantly enhance public perception of local government reputation. Crisis responsibility attribution functions as an indirect mechanism. Integrating temporal dimensions into crisis management frameworks, the research advances theoretical understanding and offers governments actionable strategies for reputation protection through timely interventions

This study investigates how governmental reputation signals - performative, moral, procedural, and technical - influence citizens' coproduction willingness, moderated by self-efficacy, household size, time availability, and age. A survey experiment with 3,745 respondents across 149 Chinese cities finds that performative, procedural, and technical signals generally increase willingness, while moral signals show no overall effect. Signal effects are audience-dependent: performative signals fail for low self-efficacy individuals; procedural signals weaken among high self-efficacy individuals; moral signals increase willingness in small households; technical signals show consistent positive effects across groups. These findings advance coproduction and reputation theory and inform targeted, signal-based citizen engagement strategies.

Water markets in China have received ample scholarly attention, but less is known about the political, ideological, and international influences that shaped their evolution. Using institutional analysis and a power-centered approach, we trace three Australian-funded projects (2005-2019) alongside domestic policy shifts to analyze how market ideas were institutionalized. We show how policy entrepreneurs embedded water trading within China's governance system by drawing on ideological principles-including politics at the centre, ideological pragmatism, and economic decentralization-to bind market instruments to Party legitimacy. We also examine variation across pilot sites, showing how China's water markets evolved through distinct institutional pathways-from collective trading among Water User Associations in Gansu to corporate purchases in Inner Mongolia. These findings contribute to debates on state - market relations, ideational power, and institutional change in one-party states, while also opening new research avenues on group-level property rights and community-based environmental markets in China and beyond.

Central banks, under political influence, employ nuanced communication strategies within the framework of bureaucratic reputation to navigate external risks. This study of the People's Bank of China's 4,575 documents, encompassing 1.8 million Chinese characters from 2005 to 2021, reveals a dynamic approach to communication. When faced with significant reputational threats, the bank pivots to a communication strategy that highlights its expertise and authority, effectively managing policy reversals and media scrutiny. As these threats diminish, the bank's strategy shifts toward political discourse, aiming to build consensus and enhance accountability. This research contributes to organizational reputation theory by extending its application to non-Western countries characterized by political control. It also sheds light on the delicate balance between institutional autonomy and political influence, emphasizing the strategic significance of a central bank's nonmonetary actions as a form of communication.

This study examines whether and how information asymmetry affects local governments' gaming behaviors in a decentralization reform. We contend that adequate access to local information by the principal is a prerequisite for mitigating effort substitution among agents. We examine the hypothesis based on a decentralization reform in China-the Integration of Agriculture-related Fiscal Transfer reform. We use the distance between pilot villages and the provincial capital as the measurement of local information. Employing a difference-in-differences design to scrutinize a unique dataset comprising 85,628 observations spanning 9199 villages from 2011 to 2020, we find that subnational decentralization with information asymmetry leads to increased effort substitution by local governments. Further analysis reveals that more abundant local information can alleviate the extent of effort substitution in reformed villages. Overall, this research highlights the importance of considering local information when designing policies to mitigate performance gaming in public goods provision and support effective subnational decentralization.

The enforcement of environmental regulations is vital for effective governance of environmental issues. While existing literature primarily examines the reasons for inadequate enforcement of these regulations from a central-local perspective, the influence of enterprises' political connections has not been sufficiently addressed. This research aims to fill this gap by creating a unified framework that integrates the roles of the central government, local governments, and enterprises. It investigates how politically connected enterprises respond differently to environmental regulations imposed by both local and central authorities. Utilizing a unique dataset comprising 17,410 pollution records of privately-owned industrial enterprises from 2011 to 2018 in southern Province A of China, our study reveals a positive association between political connection and increased pollution emissions. Notably, this relationship is more pronounced in counties characterized by stringent local environmental regulations. However, following the introduction of central environmental protection inspections by the central government, the pollution outputs from politically connected private enterprises diminish. This study significantly contributes to the existing literature on the enforcement of environmental regulations as well as political connections, offering important policy implications for future environmental governance.

This study synthesizes insights from collaborative network and agency termination theories to investigate how agencies' positions in designed networks impact their survival probability. Using longitudinal data for the central apparatus in China from 2005 to 2020, along with the designed networks derived from 1243 joint tasks arranged by the State Council, we conducted event history analyses to test our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that a centralized network position can significantly reduce an agency's likelihood of termination, while agencies in the periphery of designed networks may be less likely to survive significant restructuring. It is also discovered that stronger agencies, such as larger, economically functioning, or statutorily created ones, benefit more from centralized network positions. These findings underscore the pivotal role played by agencies' positions within designed networks in their survival prospects. As such, agencies should strategically leverage their positions within collaborative networks to mitigate the risk of termination.

In this paper, a new class of monolithically integrated millimeter-wave quasi-planar cavity-backed patch antenna is proposed. The antenna is shaped in the cross-sectional profile of the backed cavity and an air-filled trapezoidal backed cavity is developed with flexible design in the height and inclination. The shaped air-filled trapezoidal backed cavity allows the antenna gain to be improved significantly and it is tailored for being additively manufactured. A $Ka$-band antenna prototype is devised, manufactured, and tested. The antenna prototype is manufactured monolithically by employing high-precision Polyjet 3-D printing process. The RF-measured result of the antenna shows reasonable directional radiation performance with a reflection coefficient of less than -10 dB from 26.9 to 31.7 GHz (a relative bandwidth of about 16.4%) and an in-band peak realized gain of 7.8 dBi.

Studies on public organization reform have convincingly demonstrated the relevance of media salience for administrative reorganization. However, an understanding of how different media reputation dimensions influence government decisions to terminate administrative agencies is required. This study combined insights from bureaucratic reputation and agency termination theories to determine if media reputation dimensions (performative, moral, procedural, and technical) increase the probability of agency survival. These findings were based on advanced machine learning coding of 4,95,384 articles on 449 central agencies in China published in the People's Daily from 1949 to 2019. Event history analyses and piecewise constant exponential models revealed that media salience significantly and negatively influenced agency termination probability. The procedural dimension consistently mitigated agency termination risk, and the moral and performative dimensions only periodically mitigated agency termination risk. The findings suggested that the appearance in the media and specific reputation dimensions were critical for agency survival. In addition, agencies should strategically manage their media reputation to meet the expectations of multifaceted audiences and decrease the risk of agency termination.

公共部门的组织声誉管理不仅是公共管理学科的重大理论问题,也是数字时代公共部门必须关注的重大实践问题.论文围绕公共部门组织声誉的概念、内涵、测量、影响因素以及对组织行为和产出的影响等议题,对国内外学术界 1998-2021 年的相关文献进行了系统性梳理.研究发现:(1)公共部门组织声誉理论研究,总体处于起步后的快速发展阶段.(2)既有研究以规范研究和案例研究为主,大样本的实证研究较少,组织声誉的测量方法亟待改进.(3)当前研究集中在组织独特性和声誉威胁性对声誉建构的影响,以及组织声誉对绩效产出、组织间合作和机构自主性的促进作用等传统议题,对于组织声誉对机构改革、战略沟通、受众满意度的影响等新兴议题关注不够.(4)国际前沿热点文章主要基于西方情境,基于中国情境的研究有着广阔的空间.基于此,论文提出未来公共部门组织声誉理论的研究展望,具体可围绕以下三个方面展开:一是利用大数据优化改进测量方法,并加强"建构声誉"和"感知声誉"的融合;二是在关注公共部门组织声誉的影响因素和作用机制等传统研究的基础上,更积极地将组织声誉与其他重要的公共管理理论进行链接和对话;三是将公共部门组织声誉理论与中国情境紧密结合,讲好中国式现代化进程中各部委、地方政府及部门的声誉管理故事.

In modern public administration, government agencies never operate in a vacuum. They are embedded in an environment consisting of multiple audiences（higher-ups, interest groups, the media, experts and scholars, the general public, etc.） when they formulate and implement public policies. Therefore, public managers manage the organizational reputation to win broad support for specific institutions and their activities, reduce the internal and external threats faced by the organization, and increase organizational legitimacy and autonomy. During the last decade, organizational reputation research has become a frontier in international public management and one of the dominant paradigms to explain the behavior of government agencies. This article presents a selection of four representative papers recently published in top international public management research journals. These four papers examine the various communications strategies of central banks in different contexts, the impact of the history of media reputation on organizational reputation, the impact of management of organizational reputation on institutional reform, and attempts to measure and compare the organizational reputation of multinational government agencies based on new methods and new data. Based on a brief review of these four papers, this article provides a brief summary and outlook on the frontiers of research on organizational reputation in the public sector.

近年来组织声誉管理正成为国内外公共管理领域的前沿热点问题,但是数字时代中国地方政府组织声誉建构策略的影响因素却鲜有研究涉及.本文选取政府门户网站作为观察数字时代地方政府组织声誉建构策略的经验素材,基于2015-2019年31个省份全样本2 000万政府网页数据,利用前沿研究的编码表和随机森林等多种机器学习算法对中国情境下的省级政府组织声誉建构进行测量,并对其影响因素进行分析.结果表明,省级政府组织声誉建构策略会受到主政官员任期和财政资源等变量的显著影响,促使不同省级政府选择差异化的策略组合.在主政官员任期早期,地方政府更加重视呈现绩效性和道德性声誉;在任期后期,则更加重视呈现程序性和技术性声誉.财政资源少的地区,地方政府更倾向于呈现绩效性和道德性声誉;财政资源多的地区,则更倾向于呈现程序性和技术性声誉.本文较早地基于文本大数据对地方政府组织声誉进行测量,并初步揭示中国场景下地方政府组织声誉建构策略的影响因素.

Past research in driving policy innovation has focused on the role of policy entrepreneurs in organizations such as government organizations, firms, and industry associations. Yet, policy entrepreneurs in embedded organizations are rarely examined. Based on the changes in agricultural outsourcing policy in Shandong Province between 2000 and 2016,this paper reveals the process and mechanism by which policy entrepreneurs of embedded organizations（ CO-OP） with Chinese characteristics promote policy innovation. This paper finds that the organizational structure in which policy entrepreneurs operate plays an important, influential role in driving policy innovation.Furthermore,this paper argues that policy entrepreneurs in embedded organizations can form a broad network of subsystem actors based on the organization’s multifaceted,multilevel network relationships.They can accrue the information and institutional legitimacy needed to promote the practice and demonstration of ideas by collaborating with all parties and actors at all levels. This will drive policy innovation through four stages: belief formation, benefit empowerment, alliance expansion, and innovation emergence. Embedded organizations with Chinese characteristics are often criticized for mixing different organizational natures,such as government and business. This study identifies the institutional advantages of embedded organizations to facilitate the emergence of broader policy innovations. China should strengthen the reform and construction of embedded organizations,and enhance the participation of embedded organizations in various public policies,so as to promote highquality innovation based on their advantages of extensive information and institutional legitimacy.

Villages closer to urban centers often have higher economic growth, better agricultural conditions and better welfare outcomes. However, few studies have linked villages' proximity to urban centers with governance of the commons. In this paper, we explore the effects of urban proximity on the irrigation commons using ordered probit models, stepwise regression and the Sobel-Goodman mediation test, with survey data from 1257 villages in 306 counties and 27 provinces across China. We find that villages' proximity to provincial economic centers has a direct and positive effect on collective action in the irrigation commons, which could be attributed to farmers' incentives for agricultural intensification. Agriculture in villages closer to market centers is more commercially oriented, which gives farmers incentives to participate in collective action to reap the benefits of maintaining the irrigation commons. We also find that proximity between the village and the provincial economic center increases irrigation collective action through the mediated effects of village topography, population and collective income. The results enrich the literature of commons study and imply that distance to the economic center should be considered in policy making for rural revitalization and implementation of the New Urban Agenda as well as the Sustainable Development Goals. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Regardless of the implementation of central environmental protection inspection, a campaign style enforcement, across China to address the upsurging environmental issues in recent years, very few studies have revealed the effect of central environmental protection inspection on corporate environmental actions in China. This paper focuses on China’s central environmental protection inspection to evaluate the effectiveness of campaign-style enforcement in promoting corporate environmental actions. Using a regression discontinuity design and one of the most comprehensive datasets of environmental statistics on firm-level pollution from 2011 to 2018 in one province in south China. Based on 15,154 enterprise observations, we find that the central environmental protection inspection is associated with substantial changes in corporate environmental actions. We also find that the number of polluting firms shrank by 48% (and by even more among small and micro firms) after the implementation of the central environmental protection inspection. Furthermore, the central environmental protection inspection significantly reduces industrial chemical oxygen demand (COD) emissions by at least 46.5% without affecting the production output of surviving firms. These findings are robust to alternative specifications and different sampling strategies. This paper opens up a new viewpoint to focus on the effect of the central environmental protection inspection on corporate environmental actions. The available evidence leads us to cautiously conclude that environmental campaign-style enforcement promotes firms meeting emissions reduction goals in the short term through end-of-pipe abatement. A long-term inspection mechanism and incentives for firms to carry out green transformations are thus recommended for future practice.

本文基于变革性理论研究路径对中国中央层面的机构改革过程进行了研究.研究表明,驱动改革的通常是政治领导以及周期性的政治事件.改革进程反映出文化上的路径依赖现象,也包括文化对改革的内在抵制.与西方的改革经验相比,中国改革具有一些独特特征,如党的领导、传统文化以及复杂性等.同时,中国又从西方借鉴了一些结构性和文化性的解决方案,并使其适应中国特色.中国的改革进程用层叠的方式体现出了"新公共管理"和"后新公共管理"的混合特征.

<span id="ChDivSummary" name="ChDivSummary" class="abstract-text">通过考察其地方政府生态环境修复政策十余年的历史演变,本文发现,上级条块部门分别主导的纵向创新扩散模式在运作机制、持续条件与政策效果上有着显著的差异,呈现出"条条创新、块块扩散"的有趣现象。上级条条部门主导的纵向创新扩散模式主要以项目制实现,其影响主要在项目期内有效且效果较弱,但是这一弱影响往往为政策创新提供了空间;上级块块部门主导的纵向创新扩散模式可以通过人事任免等多种机制对下级施加影响,其影响常规有效且效果较强,但是这一强影响往往会抑制基层的政策创新。本文试图运用组织社会学拓展创新扩散理论,展现不同纵向创新扩散模式差异背后的组织根源。</span>

There has been a growing interest in understanding the enabling conditions for the adoption of irrigation pricing reform worldwide. We enrich the literature on policy diffusion by comparing the effects of different mobilization patterns in northern China, showing how differences in incentives have hampered or fostered the spread of a collect-and-refund policy in Taocheng District. We find that the mobilization pattern of water authorities, with limited fiscal resources and weak political influence, provided little incentive for local authorities to adopt the policy. By contrast, the mobilization pattern of government chiefs mobilized local authorities to spread the policy across larger scales.

论文提出,如果为一个新观念确定一个既定政策观念作为其对比观念,那么就能推动这个新观念转化为政策,因为这样会使新观念更容易融入政策领域的共同认知.论文以土地托管政策过程为例,展示从观念阐释到政策制定的机制.已有理论强调的意义冲突、话语结构化、政策形象三类因素为研究奠定了理论基础,但它们对土地托管案例解释力不足,所以论文提出了新的理论框架.实证研究发现,土地托管政策制定发生的重要原因,是2013年开始由山东省供销社主导创造的新的观念阐释,它将土地托管阐释为土地流转政策的对比观念,即不流转土地也能发展农业规模经营.