
Selected publications
Single-author:
“The Making of Chinese Civil Service Law: Ideals, Technicalities and Realities,” American Review of Public Administration, 2016, Vol. 46, pp. 379-398.
“Envisioning Public Administration in the Field of Public Administration in the Year 2020,” Public Administration Review, Dec 2010, Vol. 70, pp 302-303.
“Politics over Markets: Integrating State-Owned Enterprises into Chinese Socialist Market,” Public Administration and Development, February 2009, Special Issue, Vol. 29, Number 1, pp. 43-54.
“Continuity and Change in Cadre Personnel Management in China: From the 1990 to the 1998 Nomenklatura System,” China Quarterly, Vol. 179 (September 2004), pp. 703-734.
“The Civil Service under One Country, Two Systems: The Case of Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (2003 July/August), pp. 405-417.
Lead-author:
“The Politics of Redundancy: The Non-leading Cadre System in the Chinese Bureaucracy (with Gao Jie),” The China Quarterly, 2018 (September), 622-643.
“Can the Same Key Open Different Locks? Administrative Values Underlying Performance Measurement in China,” (with Gao Jie), Public Administration, 2013, Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 336-380.
“Death versus GDP! Decoding the fatality indicators on work safety regulation in Post-Deng China,” (with Gao Jie), The China Quarterly, June 2012, Vol. 210, pp.355-377.
“How are they paid? A Study of Civil Service Pay in China,” (With Ma Jun), International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2 June 2011, Vol. 77, pp. 294-321.
“Four Challenges to Accountability in Contemporary Public Administration: Lessons From the United States and China,” (with David Rosenbloom), Administration & Society, Vol. 42, Supplement 1, April 2010, pp. 11S-33S.
“Public Enterprise Reforms in the United States and the People’s Republic of China: A Drift towards Constitutionalization and Departmentalization of Enterprise Management,” (with David Rosenbloom), Public Administration Review, Vol. 69, Supplement 1, December 2009, pp S38-S45.
Co-author:
“The Quality of Governance in China and Beyond,” (with Paul Collins and Gong Ting), Public Administration Development, Vol. 37, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 155-159.
“Public Employee’s Psychological Climates and Turnover Intention: Evidence from Korean Central Government Agencies,” (with Jung, C. S and Hiseh, C. W.), Public Management Review, Vol. 19, Issue 6, 2017, pp. 880-904.
“Party Management of Talent: Building a Party-led, Merit-based Talent Market in China,” (with Chen Lijun, Gao Jie and Yu Jianxing), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 72, Issue 3, September 2015, pp. 298-311.
“The Concept of Merit in Australia, China and Taiwan,” (with Andrew Podger), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 73, Issue 3, September 2015, pp. 257-269.
“Recalibrating a Dynamic Balance: Local Autonomy within National Policy Frameworks Able to Adjust to Changing Circumstances,” (with Andrew Podger, Jun Ma, John Wanna, Su Tsai-tsu), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 72, Issue 3, September 2013, pp. 189-201.
“Citizen’s engagement in Australia and China, Engaging to improve policy and delivery, Engaging to improve performance,” (with John Wanna, Andrew Podger, Su Tsai-tsu, Ma Jun), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 71, Issue 2, June 2012, pp. 101-255.
“Putting the Citizens at the Centre: Making Government More Responsive,” (with Andrew Podger, John Wanna, Su Tsai-Tsu and Ma Jun), Australian Journal of Public Administration, June 2012, Vol. 71 (2), pp. 101-110.