Ph.D.  (Oct.2010 - Jun.2015)

Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Ph.D. candidate (Sep.2009 - Sep.2010)

Department of Public Administration, Leiden University

Master (Sep.2006 - Mar.2009)

Department of Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology

Associate Professor (Sep.2023- )

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Research Fellow (Dec.2017- Aug.2023)                                                      

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Research Fellow (Jan.2016- Nov.2017)

School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University

Researcher (Jan.2015 - Jan.2016)

Amsterdam Institution of Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam

1. Lijing Yang, Qiuyi Wu, eds. (2021). Public values as consensus: concepts, contents and perspectives. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press.

2. Yang, L., Sun, F., & Li, S. (2022). What values are evaluated? An exploratory empirical study of the public values structure in Chinese local government performance evaluation through the case of the “Hangzhou model”, Journal of Chinese Governance, DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2022.2064038

3.Lijing Yang & Tingting Liu. (2022). Labor Division, Gendered Practices and Promotion Constrains: A Field Research on Female Police Offices in J City. China Studies , 28(1):23-50. [In Chinese]

4.Lijing Yang. (2021). From Public Value to Public Values：Shifting the Perspective of Governance in the VUCA Era. Chinese Public Administration, 37 (2): 107–115. [In Chinese]

5.Lijing Yang & Dan Xu. (2021). The Distribution of Police Attention Allocation and Values Change: Based on the Text Analysis of Nanjing Public Security Performance Evaluation Documents since 1950. Risk, Disaster and Crisis, 1: 134-154. [In Chinese]

6.Tingting Liu & Lijing Yang* (2021): Men in charge of “real” work and women the office “housework”: Chinese policewomen in the post-socialist era. Asian Journal of Women's Studies (SSCI), DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1982459

7.Yang, L. (2020). The “Good Official” as a Confucian Sage: The Focus on Morality in Traditional Chinese Admonitions and Its Contemporary Relevance. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 42(1):27-43.

8.Lijing Yang, Rui Gao, & Haibo Zhang. (2020). The Values System Related to Public Security in Chinese Context: Analysis of Values Elicited from the People's Daily (1949- 2020). Gansu Administration Academy Journal, 6: 4-11. [In Chinese]

9.Lijing Yang & Yayan Song. (2020). Building of Indicators System for Credibility in Law Enforcement Based on Dual Consistency between Subject and Effect: An Empirical Study Based on Nanjing Public Security Bureau. Jiangsu Administration Academy Journal, 1: 111-118. [In Chinese]

10.Lijing Yang. (2019). “Not on the Same Page”? An Empirical Study into the most Important Values for being a Good Civil Servant in China and the Netherlands. Public Administration and Policy Review, 2019(3):33-51.

11.Lijing Yang.(2019). Paradox, Dilemma and Way out: Public Perception and Government Effectiveness in an Integrated Three-Dimension Evaluation Framework.Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, 30 (9): 71–78. [In Chinese]

12.Rutgers, M. R., & Yang, L*. (2019). Virtue or Vice: The Nature of Loyalty. Public Integrity, 21(4), 394-405.

13.Yang, L. & Rutgers, M.R. (2017). Against the Rule of Man: The Confucian and Western Traditions of Good Administration. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 83(4), 789-805.

14.Yang, L. (2016). Worlds Apart? Worlds Aligned? The perception and prioritization of civil servant values for civil servants from China and the Netherlands. International Journal of Public Administration, 39 (1), 74-86.

15.Van der Wal, Z. & Yang, L.* (2015). Confucius meets Weber or “Managerialism takes all”? Comparing Civil Servant Values in China and the Netherlands. International Public Management Journal, 18 (3), 411-436.

16.Yang, L. & Van der Wal, Z. (2014). Rule of Morality vs. Rule of Law? An Exploratory Study of Civil Servant Values in China and the Netherlands. Public Integrity, 16 (2), 187-206.

Projects

2021-2023, National Natural Science Foundation of China, “The coping mechanism and motivation of behaviors when encountering ‘wicked problems’: an empirical research of civil servants’ values preferences and contextual perceptions”.

2020-2022, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, “A three-dimension framework of law enforcement efficacy evaluation: a perspective of public participation paradox”.

2018.9-2020.9, Jiangsu Social Science Foundation Project, “Research on Evaluation Mechanism of Police Effectiveness Based on Public Value”.

2018.7-2018.12, Nanjing Public Security Bureau, “Establishment of Evaluation Index System and Index Model of Public Security Law Enforcement Credibility”.

2018.5-2018.10, Nanjing Municipal Government Work Committee, “Study on the Connotation and Extension of Work Style Construction”.

International conferences and lectures

2018.6 The Public Values Consortium 6th Biennial Workshop, Nanjing ("Public security: what public values are advocated and how to identify?")

2017.6 Third International Conference on Public Policy, Singapore (“How far behind? A review of Public Values Research in China”)

2016.9 IIAS-IAISA Joint Conference, Chengdu, China ("The nature of loyalty in the public sphere: An attempt to understand loyalty or 忠 (zhong) as a public value")

2014.11 The International Conference on “Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice: Looking Backward and Moving Forward”, Guangzhou, China

2014.06 4th Biennial Workshop of Public Values Research Consortium, Singapore (“Worlds Apart? Worlds Aligned? The meaning of values interpreted by civil servants from China and the Netherlands”)

2013.03 The American Society for Public Administration's 74th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA. (“The Value Preference of Civil Servants in China and the Netherlands: Rule of Morality or Rule of Law?”)

Teaching

“Administrative Ethics”, undergraduate, core course

“Public Ethics”, Master of Public Administration, core course (co-teaching)

Coaching and supervising

The Best Team of Social Survey and Summer Internship, Nanjing University, 2019 (co-supervised)

The Best Bachelor Thesis of School of Government, Nanjing University, 2019, 2021

The Second Grade Award of the 25^th Forum of Sciences and Arts, Undergraduate School of Nanjing University, 2022 (co-supervised)

The Second Grade Award of the 22^nd Forum of Sciences and Arts, Undergraduate School of Nanjing University, 2019

Honors and Awards

The Best Online Teaching Award, Nanjing University, 2020

Excellent Employee, The Union of Nanjing University, 2022 

Excellent Contributor of Enrollment Consulting Campaign, Nanjing University, 2022

Excellent Female Volunteer in COVID Fighting and Supporting, the Union of Nanjing University, 2020