Gong Ting is Professor of Political Science. She earned her MA and PhD from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA. Before joining City University of Hong Kong, she taught in the United States for more than a dozen years. Her research interests cover corruption and anti-corruption reform, post-communist transformation, and integrity management. She is the author of the first English book-length study of China’s corruption,
The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes. Her most recent book,
Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity (co-edited with Stephen K. Ma) was published by Routledge (UK) in 2009. She has also published extensively in political science and public administration journals. She was the recipient of grants and awards from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (RGC), J. William Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Political Science Association, and American Association of University Women.
Recent publications
D. Rosenbloom & T. Gong, “Preventing Corruption in the Age of Collaborative Governance” (Forthcoming, 2013)
T. Gong & J. M. Ren, “Hard Rules and Soft Constraints: Regulating Conflicts of Interest in China,”
Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 22, No. 79 (2013):1-17
T. Gong & S. Wang, “Indications and Implications of Zero Tolerance of Corruption: The Case of Hong Kong,”
Social Indicators Research (DOI 10.1007/s11205-012-0071-3, 2012)
T. Gong & A. M. Wu “Does Increased Civil Service Pay Deter Corruption? Evidence from China,”
Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 32, No. 2 (2012): 192-204
Y. Jing & T. Gong, “Managed Social Innovation: The Case of Government-Sponsored Venture Philanthropy in Shanghai,”
Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2012): 233–245
T. Gong & A. M. Wu, “Central Mandates in Flux: Local Noncompliance in China,”
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2012): 313-333
T. Gong, “An ‘Institutional Turn’ toward Rule-based Integrity Management in China,”
International Review of Administrative Science, Vol. 77. No. 4 (2011): 671-686
Teaching interests
- Corruption and governance
- Contemporary Chinese politics
- Research methods
