Dr Holly Snape

  • Lecturer in Politics (Political & International Studies)

Biography

I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2020. Currently, my main research project at the School attempts to understand the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the government. 

Before coming to the University of Glasgow, I worked in Beijing at the School of Government, Peking University. Within the School, I was based at the Research Center for Chinese Politics, where I studied Chinese political discourse and its role in the political system.

I received my PhD from the University of Bristol, and spent several years during my doctoral studies based at, or working with scholars from, Tsinghua University's NGO Research Center. With the NGO Research Center as a base, I was able to be both actively involved in the Center's research and to undertake my own research at different types of grassroots NGOs working on issues such as migrant worker rights, HIV/AIDS, and environmental protection. I continue to be interested in "civil society" under the PRC's one-party system, but more recently have come to realise the need to bring that system's "party" into any examination of the state-society relationship.    

Research interests

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Publications

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2024

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2024) The rise of Party law: rewiring the Party, recalibrating the Party–state relationship. China Journal, 92, pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1086/730530)

2023

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Weinan, Wang (2023) Towards a command civil society? Made in China Journal, 8(1), pp. 138-151.

2022

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2022) The Great Entrenchment: an unofficial synopsis of ‘Twentieth Party Congress Spirit’. Made in China Journal, 2022, pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.22459/MIC.07.02.2022.03)

2020

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Wang, Weinan (2020) Finding a place for the party: debunking the “party-state” and rethinking the state-society relationship in China’s one-party system. Journal of Chinese Governance, 5(4), pp. 477-502. (doi: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2020) 习惯与制度：基于英国案例的国别研究 = Habits and institutions: a country study based on the UK Case. 北大政治学评论 = Peking University Political Science Review, 7, pp. 129-152.

2019

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Social management or social governance: a review of Party and government discourse and why it matters in understanding chinese politics. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 24(4), pp. 685-699. (doi: 10.1007/s11366-019-09605-2)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Party leadership and legislating: party documents through a party–state relationship lens. Chinese Law and Government, 51(5-6), pp. 299-314. (doi: 10.1080/00094609.2022.2132763)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Party regulations: changing the rules of the game? Chinese Law and Government, 51(5-6), pp. 255-259. (doi: 10.1080/00094609.2022.2135340)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Re-writing the rules: assessing civil servants’ ‘political quality’ will influence the rules they make for NGOs. [Website]

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Painting in grey and permeating gaps changing the space for Chinese NGOs. Made in China Journal, 4(2), pp. 35-41.

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) A shifting balance between political and professional responsibility: paradigmatic change in china's civil servant and cadres management systems. Mapping China Journal, 3, pp. 1-24.

2018

Wang, Weinan and Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2018) Government service purchasing from social organizations in China: an overview of the development of a powerful trend. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 9(1), 20170032. (doi: 10.1515/npf-2017-0032)

2017

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2017) The Chinese design of the Charity Law. [Website]

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Simon, Karla W. (2017) China’s social organisations after the Charity Law. Made in China Journal, 2(1), pp. 26-29.

2012

Junhong, Han and Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2012) Fang'ai caogen NGO hefahua fenxi: yi shanghai qing'ai wei anli. Zhongguo Feiyingli Pinglun, 1(9),

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Number of items: 15.

Articles

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2024) The rise of Party law: rewiring the Party, recalibrating the Party–state relationship. China Journal, 92, pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1086/730530)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Weinan, Wang (2023) Towards a command civil society? Made in China Journal, 8(1), pp. 138-151.

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2022) The Great Entrenchment: an unofficial synopsis of ‘Twentieth Party Congress Spirit’. Made in China Journal, 2022, pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.22459/MIC.07.02.2022.03)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Wang, Weinan (2020) Finding a place for the party: debunking the “party-state” and rethinking the state-society relationship in China’s one-party system. Journal of Chinese Governance, 5(4), pp. 477-502. (doi: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796411)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2020) 习惯与制度：基于英国案例的国别研究 = Habits and institutions: a country study based on the UK Case. 北大政治学评论 = Peking University Political Science Review, 7, pp. 129-152.

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Social management or social governance: a review of Party and government discourse and why it matters in understanding chinese politics. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 24(4), pp. 685-699. (doi: 10.1007/s11366-019-09605-2)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Party leadership and legislating: party documents through a party–state relationship lens. Chinese Law and Government, 51(5-6), pp. 299-314. (doi: 10.1080/00094609.2022.2132763)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Party regulations: changing the rules of the game? Chinese Law and Government, 51(5-6), pp. 255-259. (doi: 10.1080/00094609.2022.2135340)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Painting in grey and permeating gaps changing the space for Chinese NGOs. Made in China Journal, 4(2), pp. 35-41.

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) A shifting balance between political and professional responsibility: paradigmatic change in china's civil servant and cadres management systems. Mapping China Journal, 3, pp. 1-24.

Wang, Weinan and Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2018) Government service purchasing from social organizations in China: an overview of the development of a powerful trend. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 9(1), 20170032. (doi: 10.1515/npf-2017-0032)

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 and Simon, Karla W. (2017) China’s social organisations after the Charity Law. Made in China Journal, 2(1), pp. 26-29.

Junhong, Han and Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2012) Fang'ai caogen NGO hefahua fenxi: yi shanghai qing'ai wei anli. Zhongguo Feiyingli Pinglun, 1(9),

Website

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2019) Re-writing the rules: assessing civil servants’ ‘political quality’ will influence the rules they make for NGOs. [Website]

Snape, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-3496 (2017) The Chinese design of the Charity Law. [Website]

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Supervision

  • Xie, Zihui
    The Politics of China’s Pension System Reform in Government and Public Institutions

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