Foundations in China: From Statist to Corporatist

This article discusses the development of philanthropic foundations in China. In the early stage of development from 1980s to 2003, most Chinese foundations were established by the government. They were given a special privilege to raise funds from the public but their projects were usually carried out through an “encapsulated system,” that is, within the administrative networks of the government agencies. The 2004 reform in the regulation of foundations allowed space for nongovernmental foundations to emerge, particularly those founded by corporations or individual elites. The Chinese government expected most of them to rely on their own funds and did not grant them right to conduct public fundraising. Some of these foundations later became “policy entrepreneurs” striving for equal right in fundraising and making grants to nongovernmental organizations. Regardless of these changes, the Chinese state still possesses eminent regulatory power and informal political influences in the sector. The foundation regime has changed from a statist to a corporatist model but is unlikely to move further to a liberal one.

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Creating a Sustainable Policy Framework for Cross-Border E-Commerce in China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11040943 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 943 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Weihua Su ◽

Yuying Wang ◽

Lan Qian ◽

Shouzhen Zeng ◽

Tomas Baležentis ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Stage ◽

Regulatory System ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Chinese Government ◽

System Construction ◽

Cross Border ◽

Risk Monitoring ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

The Government

This paper aims to adapt the social network analysis method to explore the characteristics of 59 cross-border e-commerce policies promulgated by the Chinese government from January 2013 to July 2018. On this basis, the paper quantitatively analyzes the internal structure and dynamic layout characteristics of sustainable cross-border e-commerce policy documents focusing on three dimensions: policy service contents, policy regulatory targets, and policy measures. The results suggest that policies involving service contents lack long-term strategic planning, especially those related to taxation and warehousing. In addition, policies regarding service system construction and demonstration construction follow an upward trend, whereas policies related to international cooperation and risk monitoring are less prevalent. Finally, it is suggested that the government pays attention to the supervision of payments, transactions, and goods in the early stage of development, but began conducting comprehensive supervision over all aspects of the cross-border e-commerce supply chain in 2015. Thus, there has been a relatively mature regulatory system established in China with particular attention to the aspects of quality and safety.

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How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽

10.24989/mj.v30i2-3.290 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (2-3) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Li Xiguang

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Public Affairs ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Government Officials ◽

The Public ◽

News Stories ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

The Government ◽

Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions.

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Who is Setting Emotions? A Comparative Study on Emotion Diffusion in Social Media among Public, Government and Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.27056 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shuhuan Zhou ◽

Yi Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Chinese Government ◽

The Public ◽

The Media ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact ◽

Time Point

BACKGROUND During the COVID-19 outbreak, social media served as the main platform for information exchange, through which the Chinese government, media and public would spread information. At the same time, a variety of emotions interweave, and the public emotions would also be affected by the government and media. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the types, trends and relationships of emotional diffusion in Chinese social media among the public, the government and the media under the pandemic of COVID-19 (December 30,2019, to July 1,2020) . METHODS In this paper, Python 3.7.0 and its data crawling framework Scrapy 1.5.1 are used to write a web crawler program to search for super topics related to COVID-19 on Sina Weibo platform of different keywords . Then, we used emotional lexicon to analyze the types and trends of the public, government and media emotions on social media. Finally cross-lagged regression was applied to build the relationships of different subjects’ emotions. RESULTS The highlights of our study are threefold: (1) The public, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in China; (2) Emotional diffusion shows a certain change over time, and negative emotions are obvious in the initial phase of the pandemic, with the development of the pandemic, positive emotions surpass negative emotions and remain stable. (3)The impact among the three main emotions with the period as the time point is weak, while the impact of emotion with the day as the time point is relatively obvious. The emotions of the public and the government impact each other, and the media emotions can guide the public emotions. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study of comparing pubic, government and media emotions on the social media during COVID-19 pandemic in China. The pubic, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the pandemic. And the government and the media have better effect on short-term emotional guidance. Therefore, when the pandemic suddenly occurs, the government and the media should intervene in time to solve problems and conflicts and diffuse positive and neutral emotions. In this regard, the government and the media can play important roles through social media in the major outbreaks. At the theoretical level, this paper takes China's epidemic environment and social media as the background to provide one of the explanatory perspectives for the spread of emotions on social media. At the some time, because of this special background, it can provide comparison and reference for the research on internet emotions in other countries.

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Chinese Citizenry Social Media Pressures and Public Official Responses

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Digital Transformation and Its Role in Progressing the Relationship Between States and Their Citizens ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3152-5.ch007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 139-181

Author(s):

James Robert Masterson

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Domain ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Public Official ◽

Government Officials ◽

The Public ◽

Access Information ◽

The Government ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

High Level

Widespread use of social media in China is a double edged sword: social media offers opportunities for the government to connect with society, gauge the opinion of citizens in the public domain, and allow citizens to voice their anger when necessary by blowing off steam online rather than in the streets. However, social media also allows citizens to access information outside of China much more rapidly and efficiently and to link up and communicate with other citizens much more quickly. Social media allows users to share texts, photos, and files, making it much more difficult for the government to control information and to thwart organizing for political purposes. In some instances, the use of social media has forced the Chinese government to take actions that it otherwise would not have done or to reverse actions or policies already set in place. The goal of this chapter is to illustrate the double-edged sword that social media poses to government officials in China, particularly high-level party officials in Beijing.

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E-Government

Electronic Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-947-2.ch144 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1892-1908

Author(s):

Leo Tan Wee Hin ◽

R. Subramaniam

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Public Administration ◽

Democratic Governance ◽

Government Agencies ◽

The Public ◽

Single Entry ◽

The Government ◽

The Web

The insertion of an e-government in the public administration infrastructure of Singapore has spawned a bureaucratic renaissance with wide-ranging ramifications in various facets of society. A single entry portal on the Web links citizens to all the government agencies as well as opens a gateway to a plethora of services needed by citizens and businesses. The process of democratic governance has been significantly strengthened with the entrenching of the e-government. This chapter elaborates on some of the important implementation policies and best practices of the Singapore experience with e-government.

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E-Government in Saudi Arabia

Social and Organizational Developments through Emerging E-Government Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-918-2.ch011 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 166-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maher O. Al-Fakhri ◽

Robert A. Cropf ◽

Gary Higgs ◽

Patrick Kelly

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Web Sites ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Internet Usage ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Full Spectrum ◽

The Public ◽

Public Facilities ◽

The Government ◽

It Training

Saudi Arabia is in the process of transitioning to e-government. Many of the Saudi government agencies have their own web sites; however, most are ineffective. Based on the findings of this study, the Saudis should consider several reforms, chief among which include the following: Increasing the awareness of its e-government program among its employees and the public at-large; making Internet access more available across the full spectrum of society; equipping public facilities for Internet usage; developing a legal framework for secure e-transactions; adopting a flexible approach to technological change and the IT environment more generally; providing IT training to government employees; partnering with the private sector to establish electronic fund transfers; and, finally, fostering 2-way communication between government agencies and between the government and the public.

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An empirical study on application and efficiency of gridded management in public service supply of Chinese Government

Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management ◽

10.1108/jstpm-08-2015-0026 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 2-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bai XiuYin ◽

Muhammad Imran Hanif ◽

Li Fensheng ◽

Muhammad Shehzad Hanif ◽

Gu Yinhua

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Service Provision ◽

Operation Mode ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Content Type ◽

The Public ◽

Public Service Provision ◽

The Government ◽

Urban And Rural Areas

Purpose Gridded management in the public service supply is still in the experience exploratory stage, and this paper aims to analyze the inherent logic and operation mode of the gridding mechanism of the public supply based on the existing theory study and practices, and verify its efficiency so as to come to the conclusion whether it could be promoted to a wider range. Design/methodology/approach The methodology applied in this paper was case study/deductive induction. Findings The grid model in the public service supply needs to be demonstrated completely in theoretical logic and operation principles before it is promoted across the country. Meanwhile, full support of the government is required in terms of service concept, function distribution, technical parameters and infrastructure. Research limitations/implications The inherent logic and operation mode of the gridding mechanism of the public service supply needs enough practice tests. The practical test of efficiency analysis of the gridding mechanism of the public service supply is not enough. Social implications This paper validated whether the gridding mechanism that originated from China’s urban management can be promoted to all over the country in the public service supply. It provides references for government policy. Originality/value This paper constructs a gridded management model for public service provision in urban and rural areas on the basis of an analysis of the plight of traditional model of public service provision, thus delivering the same standard of public service for both urban and rural areas through optimization of resource allocation without requiring more supply and fundamental change to the content of service.

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Perlindungan Kebajikan Warga Emas Gelandangan dan Daif Menurut Akta Orang-Orang Papa 1977: Suatu Tinjauan Perundangan

Kanun: Jurnal Undang-undang Malaysia ◽

10.37052/kanun.33(1)no4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 79-96

Author(s):

Noor 'Aza Ahmad ◽

Keyword(s):

Senior Citizens ◽

Senior Citizen ◽

Financial Assistance ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Role Of Government ◽

Welfare Rights ◽

The Public ◽

Library Research ◽

The Government

Malaysia is reported to be an “elderly’”country by 2030. Senior citizens are “jewels in experience”, wherefore their welfare rights should be protected under the law or by the public in general. Therefore, this paper discusses the rights of senior citizens to be protected by examining the provisions of the Destitute Persons Act 1977. The study was carried out through library research. Apart from analysing the provisions of the Destitute Persons 1977 Act, reported cases of underprivileged and ill senior citizens in Malaysia were also taken into view. In addition, this article also discusses the role of government agencies in helping senior citizens in need of protection and care, in the form of physical or financial assistance. Finally, this article discusses the actions and recommendations of the government which seeks to draw up an Act specifically aimed at protecting senior citizen welfare rights as a whole.

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Indonesia’s Response to Covid-19 Outbreak: Raising Awareness through Community Engagement and Actionable Volunteer Contribution

Jurnal Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia ◽

10.25008/jkiski.v6i2.596 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 265-274

Author(s):

Janette Maria Pinariya ◽

Carelyn Josephine ◽

Wulan Yulianti ◽

Anita Yunia

Keyword(s):

Community Engagement ◽

Task Force ◽

Early Stage ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Health Crisis ◽

The Public ◽

Communication Aid ◽

Raising Awareness ◽

National Task ◽

The Government

The world is in the grip of a health crisis due to the unforeseen consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic causing a substantial increase in distress associated with pain, depression, and loss. Indonesia is not handling the epidemic properly at this early stage due to a lack of planning and readiness on the part of the country. The government subsequently established the COVID-19 national task force, a COVID-19 assistance centre that reflects the government's readiness and urgency in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. At the national and regional levels, the task force reports directly to the president, organizes and encourages all connected agencies to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. The task force's other responsibility is to raise awareness about COVID-19 to the general public. The study aims to determine how Indonesia's COVID-19 task force volunteers can act as a communication aid for the public as a source of empowerment during the pandemic, as well as to examine risk communication and community engagement. This research uses a qualitative approach using the theory of social support. As a result, this study has identified new volunteering approaches for Indonesia's COVID-19 task force that could act as a support system as well as improvements on their approach on community engagement with the public.

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