Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Ma, Liang"
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Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this article, we examine the units of the central administrations of Chinese universities to ascertain to what extent they reflect Chinese structural and cultural characteristics or global templates, seen through certain ...
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Chen, Sicheng; Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)It is well known that public agencies are nearly immortal, but what explains their termination? This article argues that apart from conventional antecedents, political salience defined by top leaders largely shapes government ...
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Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)When responding to crises, a joint approach is often used, which requires coordination among government agencies and other institutions. In this article we combine the vertical and horizontal dimensions to develop a ...
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Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom; Zheng, Yueping (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Governments have increased their collaboration with the private sector regarding public service delivery, and their propensities to do so are largely shaped by their own in-house capacities. In this article, we theorize ...
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Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)Citizens’ trust in government and other people is crucial to their perceptions of social risks. In this study, we examine the effects of institutional and social trust on citizens’ risk perceptions. Our analysis of a 2013 ...
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Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)The structure of political and administrative institutions is important for achieving public goals. It is not fixed, however, but may change as a result of environmental and cultural processes or because of changes in ...
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Fan, Ziteng; Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)We explore the nuanced role of policy attention in the adoption of public sector innovation by differentiating it between the issue and dimension levels. Using the case of Chinese online service platforms (OSPs), we find ...
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Christensen, Tom; Gavrila, S.Gabriela; Ma, Liang; Ramirez, Francisco O. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this study, we analyse data from 176 Chinese universities to examine the use of reputation symbols on official websites. We find that Chinese universities prefer professional and performative symbols more than moral ...
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Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Reputation management varies across contexts, and it is of theoretical importance to compare reputation symbols in different countries. In this chapter we examine reputation management profiles of universities in China, ...
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Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)The reorganization of government agencies can be studied as a pre-reform process in terms of the structural changes made, or as a post-reform process in terms of the effects of the reorganization. In this study of two ...
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Wang, Yihuan; Ma, Liang; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)We use the case of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) in China to examine the mechanisms of transnational policy learning in a complicated multi-level regime. The 15 pilot cities learned from either German or Japan model, ...