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Melanie Manion CV

Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor
Political Science CV

Scholarly Works - Book sections


The Information Politics of COVID-19 in China

Book section · January 1, 2020 This chapter documents two information failures in China in early stages of the coronavirus that became the COVID-19 pandemic. First is the failure of timely and truthful upward reporting from Wuhan in December 2019 and early January 2020, which kept Beiji ... Full text Cite

Institutional design and anti-corruption in mainland China

Book section · December 17, 2014 In 1980, communist revolutionary veteran Chen Yun, second only to Deng Xiaoping in status, characterised the problem of corruption as ‘a matter of life and death’ for the Chinese communist party. Other Chinese leaders acknowledged corruption as more seriou ... Full text Cite

The challenge of corruption

Book section · January 1, 2014 Cite

Measuring change and stability over a decade in the Beijing area study

Book section · January 1, 2010 Descriptive statistics from representative sample surveys conducted in mainland China provide a static picture that is often soon overtaken by the impact of rapid socioeconomic change. The importance of longitudinal data generally, but especially in such a ... Full text Cite

A survey of survey research on Chinese politics: What have we learned?

Book section · January 1, 2010 In a political environment that remains (at best) officially skeptical about the enterprise, representative sample surveys on Chinese politics have nonetheless grown substantially in number in the past two decades: political scientists trained and based ou ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Book section · 2004 Cite