Toward Multi-Level Governance in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations

Abstract

For guidance on citations see FAQs.

Context matters: horizontal and hierarchical network governance structures in Vietnam’s sanitation sector

“…This process involved the transfer of fiscal, political, and administrative functions from higher to lower levels of government (Wescott 2003; S. Fritzen, unpublished manuscript: https://www.researchgate.net/publication /228590861_The_'foundation_ of_public_ administratio'_>De centraliz ation_and_its_discont ents_in_transitional_Vietnam), as well as allowing nonstate actors to participate in politics and policy-making (Trung et al 2015). Similar developments can be observed for other socialist regimes such as China (Ongaro et al 2018).…”

“…Examples of existing comparative governance network studies are those comparing the same policy sector in different countries (Brockhaus et al 2014), different policy sectors in the same country (Fischer and Sciarini 2016), a single policy sector over time (Ingold and Fischer 2014), or, as here, a single policy sector in different local contexts in the same country. Second, although empirical instances of horizontal governance networks have been observed in democratic countries in Western Europe and North America (Weible 2010, Berardo et al 2014, Lubell et al 2014, Scott 2015, Bodin and Nohrstedt 2016, Fischer and Sciarini 2016, less is known about governance networks in other, non-Western contexts (Fischer 2018, Ongaro et al 2018, Teets 2018. In the Vietnamese context of attempted decentralization and support for private initiatives (Wescott 2003, https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art17/ Trung Ho et al 2012), it is interesting to see to what degree governance networks resemble network structures that we usually observe in established democratic countries.…”

Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi

“…However, leaders at 2–5 different levels, from employees’ direct supervisors to executives, will influence employees’ perception and behavior directly or indirectly [ 89 ]. In the modern workflow and hierarchical organization structure, how and why multi-level leaders affect employee behavior depends on their abilities to deal with strategic exceptional events and solve uncertainties in a specific working condition [ 90 ]. Therefore, we suggest that future studies could further explore the influence and difference of multi-level and multivariate leadership style on employees’ workplace deviance behavior.…”

China’s Agricultural Irrigation and Water Conservancy Projects: A Policy Synthesis and Discussion of Emerging Issues

“…A multi-level governance system, which refers to a cooperative governance system that involves different governance actors on different levels of society to deal with common properties [76], should be introduced to facilitate the coordination between governments and among local farmers, other stakeholders, and government agencies. Although it may be challenging when such a governance system is implemented in the Chinese context, it has become a need and is both appropriate and feasible as argued in recent papers by Ongaro et al [77] and others [78]. Building a multi-level governance system needs to consider issues relevant to horizontal and vertical coordination among actors, which means that actors should be able to cooperate within the same level and across different administrative and jurisdictional scales.…”