Prof Jane Duckett
- Professor - Edward Caird Chair of Politics (Politics)
- Director of University of Glasgow Confucius Institute (Confucius Institute)
telephone: x2871
email: Jane.Duckett@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of both the Scottish Centre for China Research and the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). Her early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge, 1998). It explained state business activities as the outcome of fiscal and staffing constraints on officials in an institutional context of poorly defined property rights. Jane also (with colleague Bill Miller) made a comparative study of public attitudes to openness in East Asia and Eastern Europe, published as The Open Economy and its Enemies (CUP, 2006). Her current research is concerned with the politics of China’s social policy making and implementation. She argues through studies across a range of social policies (on local social welfare financing, health insurance, poverty and unemployment), that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences make them central to the Chinese state’s marketising project. Her recent monograph, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge, 2011) draws on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision. She has also recently co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo), China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge, 2011), a book that takes a local perspective on China’s evolving social welfare provision. Jane has worked as a policy and social development consultant on a number of internationally-funded aid projects in China. Her previous research has been funded by the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Council, British Academy, and the European Commission. In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award.
Prof Duckett recently published a paper on "China's leadership Transition", in Political Insight, a magazine of the Political Studies Association.
Current research projects:
ESRC, 'Performance Evaluations, Trust and Utilization of Health Care in China', PI, with with Neil Munro, Matt Sutton, Kate Hunt, £508,678 (FEC).
ESRC, ‘Rising Powers: Unequal Powers, Authoritarian Powers, Unstable Powers’, with Stephen White (PI), Neil Munro, and Ian McAllister, £577,174 (FEC).
ESRC, ‘Expanding, Not Shrinking Social Programmes: The Politics of New Policies to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Brazil, India, China and South Africa’, with James Manor (PI), Louise Tillin, Anthony Pereira, Jude Howell. £327,597 (FEC).
Research contribution
- Director, Scottish Centre for China Research.
- Member of REF 2014 subpanel.
- Chair of the Social Sciences Sub-panel, Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
- Member of the ESRC Peer Review College.
- Co-editor of Politics, a journal of the UK Political Studies Association (2006-11).
- Universities China Committee member (Vice-chair and Head of Expert Panel, 2007-08).
- Member of the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, East Asia, and International Quarterly, Provincial China.
- Member of the advisory board for the Contemporary China Series edited by Joseph Fewsmith and Yongnian Zheng, for World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.
Other roles
- Director, Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow
- Member,University's Tianjin Partnership Development Group
- Staff mentor
Able to comment for the media on
- Chinese politics and society, especially health, poverty and inequality, social policy
- Contemporary China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
‘Expanding, Not Shrinking Social Programmes: The Politics of New Policies to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Brazil, India, China and South Africa’, ESRC. ES/J012629/1. With James Manor (PI), Louise Tillin, Anthony Pereira, Jude Howell. £327,597 (FEC), 2012-15.
‘Rising Powers: Unequal Powers, Authoritarian Powers, Unstable Powers’, ESRC. With Stephen White (PI), Neil Munro, and Ian McAllister. £577,174 (FEC), 2012-2014.
‘Performance evaluations, trust and utilization of health care in China: understanding relationships between attitudes and health-related behaviour’, ESRC. ES/J011487/1. PI, with Co-Is Kate Hunt, Neil Munro, Matt Sutton. £508,678 (FEC), 2012-2014.
'Local "Participatory Democracy" in China' (with Zhu Guanglei and Sun Tao), Hangzhou Development Research Centre, £10,000, 2011-2012.
'Publishing in Chinese Studies', a graduate research student and early career research training workshop organised by the Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research Postgraduate Network, RCUK Roberts Funding, £1,950, 2010.
'Media Reporting of China's Health Reforms, 2005-09' (with Ana Langer), Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund and School of Social and Political Sciences, £2,800, 2009-2011.
Visit of Prof Zhu Guanglei to develop partnerships and research project 'Urban governance and democratic reform in China', University of Glasgow Partnership Development Fund, £2,438, 2009-10.
'Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa as Catalysts for Development' (with Prof Ian Taylor and Dr Marc Lanteigne), Carnegie Trust, £27,000, September 2009
'China Centre Stage' conference, Chancellor’s Fund, University of Glasgow, £2,500, 2008.
Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research Postgraduate Network Launch Workshop, Roberts Fund and Universities China Committee, £2,400, 2008.
'NGOs and the making of health policy in China', Leverhulme Research Fellowship, £18,710, 2006-2007.
'The Lessons of UK Health Reform for China', Universities China Committee, £1,450, 2006-07.
'Public attitudes to openness in East Asia and East Europe' (with W. L. Miller), ESRC, £244,943, 2002-2005.
Chinese Studies Strategic Change Grant (Associate Director of Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow joint programme), Scottish Funding Council, £780,000 (of which £90,000 for own contribution), 2000-05.
'Health Systems Reform: Financing and Governance', British Academy, £5,400, 1999-2000.
'The Political Economy of Health Insurance Reform in China', European Commission EU-China Research Fellowship Fund, €3,250, 1999.
'China's Welfare Reforms: Health and Maternity Insurance System Restructuring', British Council. Academic Link with China Scheme, £21,000, 1997-2000.
'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Urban China', British Academy, £3,430, 1997.
'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Wefare Reform in Urban China', Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, £3,290, 1996-7.
Scholarship for doctoral research fieldwork in China, British Council, 1992-3.
'Urban government under market reform', ESRC Doctoral studentship, 1991-4.
PhD supervision
Chinese politics, especially:
- Political economy and local governance
- Welfare, social security, and health policy and politics
- Non-governmental organisations
Jane’s recent doctoral students have researched China’s village elections (Dr Wang Guohui, now Assistant Professor, Yantai University), environmental politics (Dr Tom Johnson, now Assistant Professor, City University Hong Kong), social policy (Dr Daniel Hammond, now Lecturer at University of Edinburgh), and foreign economic policy in the ASEAN region (Dr Ariel Hui-min Ko).
Her current doctoral research students are:
Aofei LV, researching Chinese health policy with a focus on understanding policy change during the 2003 SARS crisis.
Hua WANG, researching the influence of non-local chambers of commerce on the policy process in China.
Carole COUPER, researching Scottish SMEs' doing business in China.
Undergraduate teaching
- Chinese Politics (Honours) (not 2012-14)
Postgraduate teaching
- Chinese Politics and Society (not 2013-14)
Selected recent conference papers and presentations
‘Public attitudes toward health provision in China: Is there demand for equality?’ (co-authored with N. Munro, K. Hunt, M. Sutton). Presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, 21-24 March 2013.
'Political Transition in China', King's College Distinguished Lectures series, King's College London, 5 March 2012.
‘社会保障与全球化：如何对应公众的要求？’ 当代中国社会管理问题研讨会. 南开大学当代中国问题研究中心，天津. 10-11 December 2011.
‘The Media Reporting of Health Reform in China, 2005-09: New socialist narratives, elite disensus and the emergence of spin’ (with A. Langer). Presented at the British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 7-9 September, 2011.
'The Chinese State's Retreat from Health', presented at the Institute for Chinese Studies/Contemporary Chinese Studies Programme, University of Oxford, 17 February, 2011.
‘What role for the state under globalization?’, presented at a conference on ‘Public Management in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges’,University of Macau, 22–23 October, 2010.
‘China’s health policies and their impact on marginalized and vulnerable groups’, paper to be presented on a panel ‘Bringing Health Care Services to Marginalized and Vulnerable Groups in China’, at the American Association of Asian Scholars, Philadelphia, 25-28 March 2010.
‘Economic Crisis and China’s 2009 Health Reform Plan: Rebuilding Social Protections for Stability and Growth?’, presented at an international workshop, ‘Dealing with Economic Crisis: Chinese Approaches and Experiences’, organised by the Association for Social Science Research on China, Trier, Germany, 27-28 November, 2009.
‘Health Reform and the PRC Government’s Promotion of ‘Social Harmony’. Keynote lecture at a conference on 'The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Social Development: Social Policy Responses in Greater China' at theUniversityofHong Kong, 12-13 November, 2009.
‘Health Politics in China: Explaining State Retrenchment, 1978-2003’. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference,Toronto, 3-6 September 2009.
‘China’s changing health governance’. Paper delivered at a workshop on Urban Governance inChina,University of Turku,Finland, 12-14 August 2009.