Jiayuan Li(李佳源)
Personal Information:
Telephone +8613622828641
Email kawing1126@gmail.com
Education
2009 BA Sun Yat-Sen University(Guangzhou) Major: Public Administration
2011 MA Sun Yat-Sen University(Guangzhou) Major: Public Administration
2015 PhD UniversityofBirmingham, U.K. Major:Local Government Studies
Supervisors
Prof.John Raine and Prof. TonyBovaird at the University of Birmingham
Thesis:Towards A Happier Society? Subjective Well-being and the Happiness Index of Guangdong, China' in Institute of Local Government Studies, 1-412.UK:University of Birmingham.
Research interest
Public opinion, performance management in public sector, research methods, and administrative reform
Conferences
1.Revisiting the Relationship between Objective and Subjective Measure of Performance: Further
Empirical Evidence from China, presented at the 34th annual conference of European Group of Public
Administration, Bergen,Norway, 2012.
2.The Time Trend of Happiness in China, presented in the doctoral seminar in INLOGOV, University of
Birmingham, 2012.
3.What is the Determinants of Happiness in China? Paper accepted by Midwest Political Science
Association 71st Annual Conference, USA, 2013.
4.Is Happiness Index an Effective Prescription to the Declining Happiness in China, 18thAnnual
Conference of theInternational Research Society of Public Management,Ottawa,Canada, 2014.
Researchfunding
1.Li Si-guan Scholarship from 2011-2014,co-awarded by China Scholarship Council and the University
of Birmingham.
2.University 21 Scholarship to study in University of British Columbia in Canada,a warded by the
University of Birmingham.
3.National Social Science Fund of China, Principal Investigator, 2016-2019 (200,000 RMB).
Publications in English Journals (peer-reviewed)
1.Jiayuan Li & John Raine.2014. The time trend of life satisfaction in China, published in Social
Indicators Research, 116:409–427.
2.Jiayuan Li.2015.The paradox of performance regimes, strategic responses to target regimes in Chinese local government, Public Administration, 93:1152-1167.
3.Jiayuan Li.2016. Why Economic Growth did not Translate into Increased Happiness: preliminary
results of amultilevel modeling of happiness in China, Social Indicators Research, 128: 241-263.
4.Jiayuan Li.Forthcoming. How Non-institutionalized Policy Innovation is Justified? A Rhetorical
Perspective. Policy Studies Journal.
5.Jiayuan Li.Forthcoming. Exploring Chinese Local Officials’ Response to the Introduction of a
Happiness Index: A Case Study of the Guangdong Happiness Index. Social Indicators Research.
6.Jiayuan Li.2015. 'Happiness: Conceptual Issues and Policy Implications' in Encyclopedia of Public
Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition, 1-5: CRC Press.
