Gong Ting earned her BA and MA from Fudan University, China, and MA and PhD in political science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA. Her main research areas include corruption studies, public governance, and political institutions. She is the author of the first English book-length study of China’s corruption. Her most recent book, Corruption Prevention and Good Governance in Hong Kong, co-authored with Professor Ian Scott, is published by Routledge (UK) and has been translated into Chinese. She has published over a hundred articles in international and Chinese journals of political science or public administration. She serves on the editorial boards of top academic journals such as Governance, Public Management Review, The China Quarterly, and Policy and Politics. She has been invited to serve as academic advisor or external reviewer by many universities in China. She has received prestigious grants from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC), Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong (ICAC) and other institutions.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Public policy, Corruption studies, Social governance, Political institutions

EDUCATION

• 1986-1992 M.A/Ph.D Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA

• 1979-1985 B.A/M.A International Politics/Law, Fudan University, China

Academic papers

In English

• Tu, WY & Gong, T* (Accepted) Bureaucratic Shirking: Is Sanction-Based Accountability a Cure? The China Quarterly (*corresponding author)

• Tu, WY & Gong, T* (2021) Accountability Intensity and Bureaucrats’ Response to Conflicting Expectations: A Survey Experiment in China. Public Management Review, DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1930123 (*corresponding author)

• Ongaro, E, Gong, T. & Jing, Y (2021). Public Administration, Context and Innovation: A Framework of Analysis. Public Administration and Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1902

• Scott, I & Gong, T* (2021) Horizontal Coordination in a Silos-dominated System: Challenges and Opportunities. Global Public Policy and Governance. 1(1): 20-38 (*corresponding author)

• Gong, T. & Yang, S.L. (2020). Why Do Innovations Succeed or Fail? Local Anticorruption Reform in China. The China Review, 20 (4):  69–94

• Xiao, HY, Gong, T*, Yu, C, Juang, WJ & Yuan, BS. (2020). Citizens’ Confidence in Government Control of Corruption: An Empirical Analysis. Social Indicators Research, 152(3): 877-897. (*corresponding author)

• Li, H & Gong, T*. (2020). Panacea or Pandora’s Box? The Dual Effect of Marketization on Corruption. Problems of Post-Communism, 67(2):141-155. (*corresponding author)

• Gong, T, SR Wang & H. LI (2019). Sentencing Disparities in Corruption Cases: Evidence from China, Journal of Contemporary China 28 (116): 245-259

• Ongaro, E., Gong, T. & Jing, Y (2018). Towards multi-level governance (MLG) in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations, Public Policy and Administration DOI: 10.1177/0952076718799397

• Gong, T & Xiao, H Y (2017). The Formation and Impact of Isomorphic Pressures: Extravagant Position-Related Consumption in China, Governance 30 (3): 387-405.

• Gong, T & Xiao, H Y (2017). Socially Embedded Anti-Corruption Governance: Evidence from Hong Kong, Public Administration and Development 37(3): 176-190.

In Chinese

• 杨丽天晴，公婷（通讯作者）（2020）'寻求善治：反腐败的大格局'，《河南社会科学》10：50-57

• 肖汉宇，公婷 （通讯作者），劳婕 （2020）'行贿意愿差异与大湾区廉政合作治理： 基于A市与香港的比较研究'《公共行政评论》2：141-163

• 公婷（2020） '腐败研究的发展现状和新视角'《公共管理与政策评论》9（1）：2-9

• Edoardo Ongaro，公婷， 敬乂嘉 （2019） '朝向中国的多层级治理?——应对跨行政辖区和跨区域组织间的复杂公共事务'， 《复旦公共行政评论》19（2）：  47-65

• 公婷，肖汉宇， 杨丽天晴 （2018）'社会嵌入式廉政治理： 香港的经验与 启示' 《复旦公共行政评论》  22：114-138

• 公婷， 杨丽天晴，肖汉宇 （2018）  「何谓反腐败的成功？ —— 理论与实践'《廉政研究》1: 3-23

• 肖汉宇，公婷（2018）'地方政府部门的过度职务消费：组织同构理论的视角'  《复旦政治学评论》18：25-52

• 肖汉宇，公婷，（2016）'腐败容忍度与'社会反腐'：基于香港的实证分析'《公共行政评论》3：42-55

• 肖汉宇，公婷（2016）'腐败研究中的若干理论问题：基于2009-2013年526篇SSCI文献的综述'《经济社会体制比较》2： 48-60

Books and journal special issues

• Scott, I and Gong, T (2019). Corruption Prevention and Governance in Hong Kong. London, UK: Routledge. 250pp.

• Gong, T & Scott, I (eds.) (2017). Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia, London, UK: Routledge. 344pp.

• Gong, T & Ma, S. K (eds.) (2009). Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity, London, UK: Routledge.

• Gong, T (1994). The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China:An Analysis of Policy Outcomes, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, USA.

Editorial board membership

• Governance (Q1, SSCI-indexed)

• The China Quarterly (Q1, SSCI-indexed)

• Public Management Review (Q1, SSCI-indexed)

• Policy and Politics (Q1, SSCI-indexed)

• Government & Opposition (Q2, SSCI-indexed)

• Global Public Policy and Governance (Executive Editor)

• Journal of Public Affairs Education (NASPAA)

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Oxford University Press (Associate Editor)