Professor Jane Duckett

  • Professor - Edward Caird Chair of Politics (Political & International Studies)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 2871
email: Jane.Duckett@glasgow.ac.uk

R1202 Level 12, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350

Biography

Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2019), and the Academy of Social Sciences (2019). From 2014–2017 she was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies.

Prof Duckett's early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge, 1998). Since then, her research has been concerned with Chinese public policy. She has argued through studies of social welfare, poverty, unemployment and health policies, that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences made them central to the Chinese state’s post-Mao marketising project. Her monograph, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) drew on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision between the 1980s and 2003. She co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo), China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge, 2011), a book that investigated China’s evolving social welfare provision. She has also published papers on the Chinese media's reporting of health reform, on public participation in policymaking in China, on how health care provision contributes to the Chinese Communist Party regime's legitimacy and on the influence of international ideas on domestic Chinese policy making. 

Her project, 'COVID-19: Understanding the Chinese Government's Containment Measures and their Societal Impacts,' was funded by the UK's National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council. Articles from that project include a piece co-authored with Meixuan Chen and William Wang on China's handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She is currently researching the Chinese Communist Party's 'common prosperity' agenda. 

Prof Duckett is a graduate of the University of Leeds and of SOAS, University of London. She studied at Fudan University in Shanghai (1984–5 and 1987–8) and at Nankai University in Tianjin (1992–3). In the late 1980s she worked in the Shanghai office of the American law firm, Paul Weiss. Before moving to Glasgow she worked at the University of Manchester and the University of York.

Prof Duckett has worked in China as a policy and social development consultant on a number of international aid projects. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research, The Leverhulme Trust, British Council, British Academy, and the European Commission.

Able to comment for the media on

  • Chinese politics and society, especially health, poverty and inequality.
  • China's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Chinese social policy and 'common prosperity'. 

Selected research contribution and service (University of Glasgow)

  • Director, Scottish Centre for China Research (2008–).
  • Research convener and REF Champion (2019–2022).
  • International Dean (East Asia) for the University of Glasgow (2014–18).
  • Director, University of Glasgow Confucius Institute (2011–2014).
  • Dean for Research, Faculty of Social Sciences (2010).

 

Selected research contribution and service (external/international)

  • Council member, Economic and Social Research Council (2021–). 
  • Member, International Scientific Council, MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies) (2021–).
  • Panel member, Subpanel 19 (Politics and International Studies), REF2021 (2020–22).
  • Trustee, Swire Chinese Language Foundation (2017–).
  • Member of the AREA-Ruhr International Scientific Advisory Board (2016–2020).
  • President of The British Association for Chinese Studies (2014–2017).
  • Panel member, Subpanel 27 (Area Studies), REF2014 (2011–14).
  • Chair of the Social Sciences Sub-panel, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2011–14).
  • Member of the Executive Committee and Editorial Board of The China Quarterly (2011–2021).
  • Co-editor of Politics, a journal of the UK Political Studies Association (2006–11).
  • Member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Asian Public Policy, Europe-Asia Studies, and East Asia: An International Quarterly. 

Research interests

Prof Duckett's research interests are in contemporary Chinese politics, particularly the redistributive consequences of China's health and social policies, and in policy making in this authoritarian political system. 

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Langer, Ana Ines ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X, Wang, Hua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2025) Social media and policy change: the Chinese government’s strategic policy responsiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00323217251345776) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Wang, Hua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2024) Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter? Review of Policy Research, 41(6), pp. 921-940. (doi: 10.1111/ropr.12582)

Huang, Xian and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2024) China’s health care system and policies. In: Powell, Martin, Agartan, Tuba I. and Béland, Daniel (eds.) Research Handbook on Health Care Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 307-326. ISBN 9781800887558 (doi: 10.4337/9781800887565.00022)

2022

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 (2022) Authoritarian regime legitimacy and health care provision: survey evidence from contemporary China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 375-409. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626894) (PMID:34847220)

Lv, Aofei, Luo, Ting and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2022) Centralization vs decentralization in Covid-19 responses: lessons from China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 411-427. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626908) (PMID:34847219)

2020

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2020) Neoliberalism, authoritarian politics and social policy in China. Development and Change, 51(2), pp. 523-539. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12568)

2019

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2019) International influences on policy making in China: network authoritarianism from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao. China Quarterly, 237(1), pp. 15-37. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001212)

Howell, Jude and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2019) Reassessing the Hu—Wen era: a golden age for social policy. China Quarterly, 237, pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001200)

2018

Stepan, Matthias and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (Eds.) (2018) Serve the People: Innovation and IT in China‘s Social Development Agenda. Series: MERICS Papers on China. Mercator Institute for China Studies: Berlin.

2017

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, Guohui (2017) Why do authoritarian regimes provide public goods? Policy communities, external shocks and ideas in China’s rural social policy making. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(1), pp. 92-109. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1274379)

Manor, James and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2017) The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 303-327. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327926)

Tillin, Louise and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2017) The politics of social policy: welfare expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in comparative perspective. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 253-277. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327925)

2016

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350, Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632, Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 and Sutton, Matt (2016) Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China? Health Policy and Planning, 31(8), pp. 1001-1009. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw024) (PMID:27117483) (PMCID:PMC5013779)

Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2016) Explaining public satisfaction with health care systems: findings from a nationwide survey in China. Health Expectations, 19(3), pp. 654-666. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12429) (PMID:26595456) (PMCID:PMC4991297)

2015

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, Guohui (2015) Poverty and inequality. In: deLisle, Jacques and Goldstein, Avery (eds.) China's Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9780812223125

Wang, G. and Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2015) Welfare and social security. In: Goodman, D.S.G. (ed.) Handbook of Politics in China. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 238-250. ISBN 9781782544364

2013

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Langer, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X (2013) Populism versus neo-liberalism: diversity and ideology in the Chinese media's reporting of health system reform. Modern China, 39(6), pp. 653-680. (doi: 10.1177/0097700413492602)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2013) Health and social policy. In: Ogden, C. (ed.) Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 67-77. ISBN 9781857436365

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 (2013) Extending political participation in China: new opportunities for citizens in the policy process. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 6(3), pp. 263-276. (doi: 10.1080/17516234.2013.850221)

2012

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2012) China's leadership transition. Political Insight, 3(2), pp. 22-25. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-9066.2012.00108.x)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2012) China's 21st-century welfare reforms. Local Economy, 27(5-6), pp. 645-650. (doi: 10.1177/0269094212444574)

2011

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2011) Challenging the economic reform paradigm: policy and politics in the early 1980s collapse of the rural cooperative medical system. China Quarterly, 205, pp. 80-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741010001402)

Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (Eds.) (2011) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: China in transition. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415597319

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2011) The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition (36). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415573894

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Carrillo, B. (2011) China's changing welfare mix: introducing the local perspective. In: Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (eds.) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition. Routledge: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780415597319

2010

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2010) Economic crisis and China’s 2009 health reform plan: rebuilding social protections for stability and growth? China Analysis: Studies in China’s Political Economy(80), pp. 1-14.

2009

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2009) Medical care since 1949. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 569-574. ISBN 9780684315683

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2009) Rural cooperative medical systems. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 294-295. ISBN 9780684315690

2008

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2008) Will the Olympics change China for the better? Herald, 6th Ju, p. 17.

Duckett, J. and Hussain, A. (2008) Tackling unemployment in China: state capacity and governance issues. Pacific Review, 21(2), pp. 211-229. (doi: 10.1080/09512740801990279)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2008) Health NGOs: a second generation of policy advocates? China Review, 42(6), p. 16.

2007

Young, A.R., Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Graham, P. eds. (2007) Publishing in Politics: A Guide for New Researchers. Political Studies Association: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2007) Local governance, health financing, and changing patterns of inequality in access to health care. In: Shue, V. and Wong, C. (eds.) Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Series: Routledge contemporary China series (21). Routledge: London, pp. 46-68. ISBN 9780415422543

2006

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Miller, W.L. (2006) The Open Economy and Its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521864060

2004

Duckett, J (2004) State, collectivism and worker privilege: a study of urban health insurance reform. China Quarterly, 177, pp. 155-173.

2003

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2003) Bureaucratic institutions and interests in the making of China's social policy. Public Administration Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 210-235.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2003) SARS: an opportunity for China’s health system. China Review, 2003(Summer), pp. 5-7.

Duckett, J (2003) China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 19(1), pp. 80-101. (doi: 10.1080/13523270300660006)

2002

Duckett, J. (2002) State self-earned income and welfare provision in China. Provincial China, 7(1), pp. 1-19.

2001

Duckett, J (2001) Political interests and the implementation of China's urban health insurance reform. Social Policy and Administration, 35(3), pp. 290-306. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9515.00234)

Duckett, J. (2001) Bureaucrats in business, Chinese-style: the lessons of market reform and state entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China. World Development, 29(1), pp. 23-37. (doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00083-8)

1998

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1998) The Entrepreneurial State in China. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition, 5. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415187411

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1998) Government and politics. In: Hook, B. (ed.) Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis. Series: Regional development in China (4). Oxford University Press: Hong Kong, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9780195861839

1997

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1997) China’s social welfare reforms for a market economy. In: Hudson, C., Blecher, M.J. and Curry, J. (eds.) The China Handbook. Series: Regional handbooks of economic development: prospects into the 21st century. Fitzroy Dearborn: Chicago, IL, pp. 262-275. ISBN 9781884964886

1996

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) China. In: Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Duckett, J., Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (eds.) Guidance Note on Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea, pp. 73-81. ISBN 0906250

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China. Pacific Review, 9(2), pp. 180-198. (doi: 10.1080/09512749608719178)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) Restructuring for an encroaching market: China’s experience of commercial system reform. In: Stanyer, J. and Hampsher-Monk, I. (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies, 1996. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Belfast, pp. 298-306. ISBN 9780952315056

Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Clarke, G., Brustinow, A., Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350, Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (1996) Guidance Note on Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea. ISBN 0906250

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Articles

Langer, Ana Ines ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X, Wang, Hua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2025) Social media and policy change: the Chinese government’s strategic policy responsiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00323217251345776) (Early Online Publication)

Wang, Hua ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2024) Local lobbying in single-party authoritarian systems: Do institutions matter? Review of Policy Research, 41(6), pp. 921-940. (doi: 10.1111/ropr.12582)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 (2022) Authoritarian regime legitimacy and health care provision: survey evidence from contemporary China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 375-409. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626894) (PMID:34847220)

Lv, Aofei, Luo, Ting and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2022) Centralization vs decentralization in Covid-19 responses: lessons from China. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 47(3), pp. 411-427. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-9626908) (PMID:34847219)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2020) Neoliberalism, authoritarian politics and social policy in China. Development and Change, 51(2), pp. 523-539. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12568)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2019) International influences on policy making in China: network authoritarianism from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao. China Quarterly, 237(1), pp. 15-37. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001212)

Howell, Jude and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2019) Reassessing the Hu—Wen era: a golden age for social policy. China Quarterly, 237, pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001200)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, Guohui (2017) Why do authoritarian regimes provide public goods? Policy communities, external shocks and ideas in China’s rural social policy making. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(1), pp. 92-109. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1274379)

Manor, James and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2017) The significance of political leaders for social policy expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 303-327. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327926)

Tillin, Louise and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2017) The politics of social policy: welfare expansion in Brazil, China, India and South Africa in comparative perspective. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55(3), pp. 253-277. (doi: 10.1080/14662043.2017.1327925)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350, Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632, Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 and Sutton, Matt (2016) Does distrust in providers affect health-care utilization in China? Health Policy and Planning, 31(8), pp. 1001-1009. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw024) (PMID:27117483) (PMCID:PMC5013779)

Munro, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9694-9701 and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2016) Explaining public satisfaction with health care systems: findings from a nationwide survey in China. Health Expectations, 19(3), pp. 654-666. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12429) (PMID:26595456) (PMCID:PMC4991297)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Langer, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X (2013) Populism versus neo-liberalism: diversity and ideology in the Chinese media's reporting of health system reform. Modern China, 39(6), pp. 653-680. (doi: 10.1177/0097700413492602)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-2325 (2013) Extending political participation in China: new opportunities for citizens in the policy process. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 6(3), pp. 263-276. (doi: 10.1080/17516234.2013.850221)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2012) China's leadership transition. Political Insight, 3(2), pp. 22-25. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-9066.2012.00108.x)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2012) China's 21st-century welfare reforms. Local Economy, 27(5-6), pp. 645-650. (doi: 10.1177/0269094212444574)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2011) Challenging the economic reform paradigm: policy and politics in the early 1980s collapse of the rural cooperative medical system. China Quarterly, 205, pp. 80-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741010001402)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2010) Economic crisis and China’s 2009 health reform plan: rebuilding social protections for stability and growth? China Analysis: Studies in China’s Political Economy(80), pp. 1-14.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2008) Will the Olympics change China for the better? Herald, 6th Ju, p. 17.

Duckett, J. and Hussain, A. (2008) Tackling unemployment in China: state capacity and governance issues. Pacific Review, 21(2), pp. 211-229. (doi: 10.1080/09512740801990279)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2008) Health NGOs: a second generation of policy advocates? China Review, 42(6), p. 16.

Duckett, J (2004) State, collectivism and worker privilege: a study of urban health insurance reform. China Quarterly, 177, pp. 155-173.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2003) Bureaucratic institutions and interests in the making of China's social policy. Public Administration Quarterly, 27(2), pp. 210-235.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2003) SARS: an opportunity for China’s health system. China Review, 2003(Summer), pp. 5-7.

Duckett, J (2003) China's social security reforms and the comparative politics of market transition. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 19(1), pp. 80-101. (doi: 10.1080/13523270300660006)

Duckett, J. (2002) State self-earned income and welfare provision in China. Provincial China, 7(1), pp. 1-19.

Duckett, J (2001) Political interests and the implementation of China's urban health insurance reform. Social Policy and Administration, 35(3), pp. 290-306. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9515.00234)

Duckett, J. (2001) Bureaucrats in business, Chinese-style: the lessons of market reform and state entrepreneurialism in the People's Republic of China. World Development, 29(1), pp. 23-37. (doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00083-8)

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) The emergence of the entrepreneurial state in contemporary China. Pacific Review, 9(2), pp. 180-198. (doi: 10.1080/09512749608719178)

Books

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2011) The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition (36). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415573894

Young, A.R., Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Graham, P. eds. (2007) Publishing in Politics: A Guide for New Researchers. Political Studies Association: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Miller, W.L. (2006) The Open Economy and Its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521864060

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1998) The Entrepreneurial State in China. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition, 5. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415187411

Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Clarke, G., Brustinow, A., Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350, Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (1996) Guidance Note on Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea. ISBN 0906250

Book Sections

Huang, Xian and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2024) China’s health care system and policies. In: Powell, Martin, Agartan, Tuba I. and Béland, Daniel (eds.) Research Handbook on Health Care Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 307-326. ISBN 9781800887558 (doi: 10.4337/9781800887565.00022)

Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Wang, Guohui (2015) Poverty and inequality. In: deLisle, Jacques and Goldstein, Avery (eds.) China's Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9780812223125

Wang, G. and Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2015) Welfare and social security. In: Goodman, D.S.G. (ed.) Handbook of Politics in China. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 238-250. ISBN 9781782544364

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2013) Health and social policy. In: Ogden, C. (ed.) Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 67-77. ISBN 9781857436365

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 and Carrillo, B. (2011) China's changing welfare mix: introducing the local perspective. In: Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. (eds.) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies on China in transition. Routledge: London, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780415597319

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2009) Medical care since 1949. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 569-574. ISBN 9780684315683

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2009) Rural cooperative medical systems. In: Pong, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, MI, pp. 294-295. ISBN 9780684315690

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (2007) Local governance, health financing, and changing patterns of inequality in access to health care. In: Shue, V. and Wong, C. (eds.) Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Series: Routledge contemporary China series (21). Routledge: London, pp. 46-68. ISBN 9780415422543

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1998) Government and politics. In: Hook, B. (ed.) Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis. Series: Regional development in China (4). Oxford University Press: Hong Kong, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9780195861839

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1997) China’s social welfare reforms for a market economy. In: Hudson, C., Blecher, M.J. and Curry, J. (eds.) The China Handbook. Series: Regional handbooks of economic development: prospects into the 21st century. Fitzroy Dearborn: Chicago, IL, pp. 262-275. ISBN 9781884964886

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) China. In: Montgomery, R., Campbell, J., Duckett, J., Kinnear, R. and Clisby, S. (eds.) Guidance Note on Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities. Centre for Development Studies: Swansea, pp. 73-81. ISBN 0906250

Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (1996) Restructuring for an encroaching market: China’s experience of commercial system reform. In: Stanyer, J. and Hampsher-Monk, I. (eds.) Contemporary Political Studies, 1996. Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Belfast, pp. 298-306. ISBN 9780952315056

Edited Books

Stepan, Matthias and Duckett, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (Eds.) (2018) Serve the People: Innovation and IT in China‘s Social Development Agenda. Series: MERICS Papers on China. Mercator Institute for China Studies: Berlin.

Carrillo, B. and Duckett, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-5350 (Eds.) (2011) China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives. Series: China in transition. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415597319

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Grants

UKRI NIHR & MRC, 'Covid-19: Understanding Chinese Government Containment Measures and their Societal Impacts', PI, with Ana Langer, Yajun Bao, Yingru Li, Holly Snape, Ting Luo, Hua Wang, Bastian Struve, Weinan Wang, Aofei Lv, Meixuan Chen, Hairong Wang. £333,963, 2020–2022.

ESRC & NSFC, 'Remaking Urban Neighbourhoods in China', with Ya Ping Wang (PI), Keith Kintrea, Rebecca Madgin, Julie Miao, Jing Yao and a team at Nankai University led by Sun Tao. £1 million (FEC), 2016–18.

European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship, ‘Direct Elections China'. With L. Dong. £237,023, 2015–17. 

ESRC, ‘Expanding, Not Shrinking Social Programmes: The Politics of New Policies to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Brazil, India, China and South Africa’, ES/J012629/1. With James Manor (PI), Jude Howell, Anthony Pereira and Louise Tillin. £327,597 (FEC), 2012–16.

ESRC, ‘Rising Powers: Unequal Powers, Authoritarian Powers, Unstable Powers?.’ With Stephen White (PI), Neil Munro, and Ian McAllister. £577,174 (FEC), 2012–2016.

ESRC, ‘Performance evaluations, trust and utilization of health care in China: understanding relationships between attitudes and health-related behaviour’, ES/J011487/1. PI, with Co-Is Kate Hunt, Neil Munro, Matt Sutton. £508,678 (FEC), 2012–2015.

Hangzhou Development Research Centre, 'Local "Participatory Democracy" in China' (with Zhu Guanglei and Sun Tao), £10,000, 2011–2012.

RCUK Roberts Funding,'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, £1,950, 2010.

Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund, 'Media Reporting of China's Health Reforms, 2005-09' (with Ana Langer), £2,800, 2009–2011.

Universities China Committee (London), 'The Lessons of UK Health Reform for China', £1,450, 2006–07.

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, ‘Non-governmental organisations and the making of health policy in China’. £18,710, 2006-07.

ESRC, 'Public attitudes to openness in East Asia and East Europe' (PI, with W. L. Miller), £244,943, 2002–2005.

Scottish Funding Council, Chinese Studies Strategic Change Grant (Associate Director of Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow joint programme), £780,000 (of which £90,000 for own contribution), 2000–05.

British Academy, 'Health Systems Reform: Financing and Governance', International workshop,£5,400, 1999–2000.

European Commission EU-China Research Fellowship Fund, 'The Political Economy of Health Insurance Reform in China', €3,250, 1999.

British Council, 'China's Welfare Reforms: Health and Maternity Insurance System Restructuring', Academic Link with China Scheme, £21,000, 1997–2000.

British Academy, 'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Urban China', £3,430, 1997.

Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, 'Economic Liberalisation and the Politics of Wefare Reform in Urban China', £3,290, 1996–7.

British Council, Scholarship for doctoral research fieldwork in China, 1992–3.

ESRC Doctoral studentship, 'Urban government under market reform', 1991–4.

Supervision

PhD supervision

Jane is an experienced supervisor. She welcomes enquiries and applications from students interested in doctoral research projects in contemporary Chinese government and public policy - e.g. health, education or anti-poverty policy. Applicants will need very good Chinese and English language skills, as well as training in contemporary Chinese studies or social science research. Jane's doctoral students benefit from a lively and welcoming research environment that includes the Scottish Centre for China Research.

 

  • Edwards, David
    Towards a Postcolonial Ecology: A Transfigurative Analysis of the ‘Critical Zone’ in China
  • Xie, Zihui
    The Politics of China’s Pension System Reform in Government and Public Institutions
  • Zheng, Congwei
    Study on the phenomenon of surrogacy among gay men in China

Jane's previous doctoral students have researched China’s village elections (Dr Wang Guohui, now Assistant Professor at Tianjin Normal University), environmental politics (Dr Tom Johnson, now a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield), social policy (Dr Daniel Hammond, now a Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh), foreign economic policy in the ASEAN region (Dr Ariel Hui-min Ko, who went on to become a research associate at National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei), and UK SMEs doing business in China (Dr Carole Couper, now a Lecturer at Sheffield University), Chinese health politics (Dr Aofei Lv, who went on to a postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam), and Chinese non-local chambers of commerce (Dr Hua Wang, now a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow).

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

  • Level 2B: Comparative Politics (China case study).
  • Chinese Politics (Honours).

Postgraduate teaching

  • Contemporary Communist Regimes (from 2025–26).

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2016: Fellow (British Academy)
  • 2019: Fellow (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
  • 2019: Fellow (Academy of Social Sciences)

Research fellowships

  • 2006 - 2007: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship

Editorial boards

  • 2009 - n/a: The China Quarterly
  • 2007 - n/a: Europe-Asia Studies

Professional & learned societies

  • Member, Political Studies Association
  • 2014 - 2017: President, British Association for Chinese Studies

Research datasets

Jump to: 2015
Number of items: 1.

2015

Duckett, J. , Munro, N. , Sutton, M. A. and Hunt, K. (2015) China national health attitudes survey 2012-13. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Selected recent lectures and presentations

‘China’s 21st Century Socio-economic Development: Towards “Common Prosperity”?’ Annual lecture of the Scotland China Education Network, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 20 June 2024.

‘Social policies under Hu and Xi: from Segmentation to Stalled Integration’, Conference on ‘China: Fiscal Policies for the New Era’, East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, 11–13 January 2023 (online).

'Pandemic Politics: What Have We Learned?' International Science Council, 21 November, 2021 (online).

'The Communist Party of China: internal reforms and legitimacy'. All-Party Parliamentary Group on China (Westminster, UK) on the CCP at 100, 15 June 2021 (online).

'COVID-19: The Chinese government's containment measures.' World Health Organisation’s Social Sciences Working Group, 21 July, 2020.

Keynote lecture at the Nordic Association for China Studies Annual Conference, University of Bergen, 13–14 June 2019.

'Explaining China's Social Welfare Development.' Keynote lecture at a conference on ‘Towards a new Chinese Welfare State – Perceptions of Distributive Justice in China’, Fafo, Oslo, 12–14 September 2018.

‘Explaining China’s 21st century social policies.’ Politics and International Relations seminar, University of Cambridge, 9 May 2018.

'China's Health System Challenges.' Guest Lecture at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, 27 March, 2018.

'International Influences on domestic Policy Making in China.’ Chun Tu-Hsueh Distinguished Lecture, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 26 January, 2018.

 


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