Sicheng Chen

Hongxia Li, Sicheng Chen, Rongrong Yao and Tom Christensen find that pre-crisis risk communication, accommodative prioritization, and fast-paced responses significantly enhance public perception of local government reputation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper is positioned as an early effort to bring reputation management into the analytical center of crisis management, showing how crisis response can be understood not only as governance under pressure, but also as reputation work conducted through time-sensitive choices. @pmreview.bsky.social

New publication alert! 🚨Our new PMR study tests how time strategies in crisis response—timing (pre vs post), sequence (defensive vs accommodative), tempo (fast vs slow)—shape public perceptions of local government reputation. Evidence from a 2×3×2 factorial experiment (n=1520).

Let's call it a year

Organizational reputation should not be viewed solely as an accumulated institutional asset. It also functions as a strategic communication mechanism through which governments convey information about competence, fairness, integrity, and expertise @pmreview.bsky.social

New publication alert! 🚨
Our latest study in PMR examines how four types of reputation signals—performative, moral, procedural, and technical—differentially influence citizens’ coproduction willingness. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2591760

Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank Central banks, under political influence, employ nuanced communication strategies within the framework of bureaucratic reputation to navigate external risks. This study of the People’s Bank of Chin...

📢 New article
👥 Meng Qingguo, Chen Xiaoyang, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV)
👉 Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank
📗 Published in International Public Management Journal
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2025.2503830

Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination This study synthesizes insights from collaborative network and agency termination theories to investigate how agencies' positions in designed networks impact their survival probability. Using longitu...

📢 New article 🌟
👥 Ma Liang, Liu Weixing, Chen Sicheng & Tom Christensen (ISV)
🔎 Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination
📗 Published in Public Administration
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/padm...

But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
——The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 24, Concluding Notes

‘Two hands, multiple fingerprints’: how ideology and politics shaped China’s water market reforms (1998–2021) Water markets in China have received ample scholarly attention, but less is known about the political, ideological, and international influences that shaped their evolution. Using institutional ana...

Our new article in Environmental Politics shows how market ideas, shaped China’s water market reforms (1998–2021).We trace how policy entrepreneurs and Party ideology forged a “two hands, multiple fingerprints” approach: state steering, local markets, and ideas as the glue.

New publication in Public Administration Review (PAR)

We are delighted to share our interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored by Moshe Maor, Dovilė Rimkutė,Tereza Capelos:

"Emotions and Reputation Learning by Audience Networks: A Research Agenda in Bureaucratic Politics"
📄 lnkd.in/eyHTeVAb

Attended IPSA 2025 with great gains—joined 5/6 SOG panels, chaired and co-chaired 2 panels, present 2 papers and discussed 6 papers. Our China panel was a highlight: scholars used ML and experiments to localize and innovate reputation theory. #IPSA2025 #SOG #RC27 #GovReputation #ChinaStudies

🎉 So glad we could all come together at IJPA’s Happy Hours for Asian Stories at #PMRC2025!
Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by — great conversations, new ideas, and warm connections.
@mengye.bsky.social @sethjmeyer.bsky.social

📷 PMRC 2025 Meritocracy Section! 📷 Wonderful catching up with old friends & meeting new ones. Gained so much! 📷 #PMRC2025 #PMRC2025 #KnowledgeGain

DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2025.2503830

New paper in IPMJ explores how China’s central bank balances political influence & reputation management. Analyzing 2005–2021 data, we found the PBOC emphasizes expertise under reputational threat, then shifts to political discourse as risks ease. 📊⚡ #CentralBank #China #ReputationManagement

welcome to Beijing

A project that I wanted to do a long time ago - bridging hashtag#nonprofit and hashtag#coproduction research together. The first step is now out. The best part is that the corresponding author Xinyi Qiu is a brilliant master's student. ### Hint hint hint: She will apply for PhD programs.

📢New Article
👥 Jostein Askim, @tobiasbach.bsky.social & Kristoffer Kolltveit
👉 The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents
📗Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social

Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments? The novelty of this study is its focus on reversing government reforms, a topic that has received little attention in the literature. It focuses on what characterizes the reversal processes with resp...

📢 New article
👥 Tom Christensen & Per Lægreid
🔎 Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?
📖 In Public Administration, @journalpa.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/padm...

🚨 Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) ➡️ “A reputational perspective on structural reforms: how media reputations are related to the structural reform likelihood of public agencies” by Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Koen Verhoest, Walter Daelemans, and Jens Lemmens.🧵

Plan your trip to Seoul ✈️
Preferential rates have been negotiated for #IPSA2025 World Congress #PoliticalScience participants. We invite you to book your hotel now to take advantage of these discounted rates.
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Want to talk about how you can target your research to JPART?

We are offering 1:1 meet the editors sessions at #ASPA2025 & #IRSPM2025 & #PMRC2025 & #EGPA2025

We start with ASPA in D.C. next week - book your time below:

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@sassmikkelsen.bsky.social

Thanks a lot, Lars @tummers.bsky.social for a great seminar - our PhD students at the Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA) once again learned a lot from you!

PMRC 2025 PMRC 2025

We are running a workshop 'Best Practice in Experimental and Behavioural Public Administration' at Public Management Research Conference, SNU, June 2025 #PMRC2025 @ggvanryzin.bsky.social @nickpetrovsky.bsky.social @ksweissmueller.bsky.social
more info:
www.pmrc2025.org/pre-conferen...

Check out our new publication with Adriana Cerdeira, 'Reputational Pragmatism at the European Central Bank,' in New Political Economy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#RegulatoryGovernance #Reputation #GreenCentralBanking #sustainability #ECB #ClimateChange

Journal of European Public Policy

▶️ Saar Alon-Barkat and @mbusuioc.bsky.social put agency independence and regulatory credibility to the test 👇

Scientific peer-review isn’t perfect. And federal agencies & non-profit funders have been working hard to test new models & approaches. I never imagined the result would be “run it be a 25yr old right-wing data junkie” to evaluate the science and public outcomes