Shui Yan Tang

Biography

Shui Yan Tang’s research focuses on institutional analysis and design, common-pool resource governance, environmental politics and policy, collaborative governance, and governance reform. He is the author of Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governance in Irrigation (ICS Press, 1992), Ten Principles for a Rule-ordered Society: Enhancing China’s Governing Capacity (China Economic Publishing House, 2012), and Institutional Analysis and Public Governance (in Chinese, Fudan University Press, 2019). He has published in numerous journals, including Comparative Politics, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Land Economics, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration Review, and World Development. Professor Tang was associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Selected Publications

H. Li and S. Y. Tang, “Following the Dragon: Understanding Chinese NGOs’ Location Choices in Global Development Initiatives,” Perspectives on Politics, Early View, 2026, pp. 1-18

J. Li, S. Y. Tang, and B. Wen, “Unpacking Resilience in Public Administration: Insights from a Meta-Narrative Review,” PublicAdministrationReview, Early View, 2026, pp. 1-20.

S. Y. Tang, “Updating Tocqueville’s Remedies Against Democratic Despotism: Civic Engagement, Local Self-Governance, and Public Administration,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 86, No. 4, 2026, pp. 891-900

S. Y. Tang, “Tocqueville and Democracy in China,” The Tocqueville Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2025, pp. 107-134.

L. Tao, S. Y. Tang, and B. Wen, “Advancing the Frontiers of Genomic Public Administration: From Genetics to Administrative Attitudes, Behaviors, and Practices,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 83, No. 6, 2023, pp. 1447-1461