The Politics of Expertise in China

Xufeng Zhu (Professor & Executive Associate Dean, Director of Think Tank Research Center, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University)

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Abstract

This seminar introduces Professor Xufeng Zhu's latest book The Politics of Expertise in China , in which Professor Zhu argues that expert involvement can be regarded as the result of the inherent characteristics of policy changes in the Chinese policy process. Moreover, experts influence some policy change cases significantly and in others not. Professor Zhu explores the strategies Chinese experts adopt to engage in various policy cases and the politics in which expertise how far is able to influence policy making.

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The Politics of Expertise in China

About the speaker

Xufeng Zhu is Professor and Executive Associate Dean at the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) and Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University (TUSDG), Deputy Director of the Science & Technology Development and Governance Center, Tsinghua University (TUSTDG), and Director of the Think Tank Research Center of the SPPM. He was nominated by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and appointed by the Economic and Social Council as a member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP). He serves as General Secretary of the China Public Management Association and Executive Council member and Co-Chair of the SDG working committee of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). He also serves as Regional Editor, Associate Editor, and editorial board members for over ten international journals.

His research interests include public policy theories, Science & Technology policy, environment and climate policy, and public governance in transitional China. He is the author of The Politics of Expertise in China (2019), The Rise of Think Tanks in China (2013), Reform and Opening-up and Contemporary Think Tanks in China (Chinese, 2018), Expert Involvement in Policy Changes (Chinese, 2012), and China's Think Tanks: Their Influences in the Policy Process (Chinese, 2009), and has published over thirty English articles in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Governance, Public Administration, Policy Studies Journal, The China Quarterly and other international journals and dozens of articles in Chinese journals such as Social Sciences in China, Sociological Studies, and Management World , which are highly prestigious academic journals in respective fields.

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This webinar will take place online via Zoom. Click here to register .

Chair: Professor Steve Tsang, Director, SOAS China Institute

Organiser: SOAS China Institute

Contact email: sci@soas.ac.uk