Chair of Public Administration & Public Policy

Ming Ma

Ming Ma is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Administration and Public Policy at Zeppelin University. He is now working on ERC project “Biases in Administrative Service Encounters: Transitioning from Human to Artificial Intelligence (BiASE-AI)”.

He studies computational social science, comparative politics, and AI governance. He is particularly interested in how (mis)information about emerging technology both shapes and is shaped by the dynamics of global politics, digital spaces, and everyday life. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Perspectives on Politics, China Review, China Perspectives, among other journals.

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Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

2025 M. Ma, Daniil Romanov, Genia Kostka and Alexander Libman, “Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media after the Ukraine Invasion"”, Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming, (SSCI)

2025 M. Ma, Han Feng and Wang Chuyao, “Panacea or Pandora’s Box: Diverse Governance Strategies to Conspiracy Theories and their Consequences in China”, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04350-1 (SSCI)

2025 M. Ma, Daniil Romanov, Genia Kostka and Alexander Libman, “Mirrors and Mosaics: Deciphering Bloc-Building Narratives in Chinese and Russian Mass Media”, Perspectives on Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724002202 (SSCI)

2023 M. Ma and Y. Kang, “Weaving the Social Fabric: Party-Led Community Social Capital Building in Rural Guangdong”, China Review, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48740205 (SSCI)

2022 M. Ma and Y. Kang, “Conflict Management through Controlled Elections: ‘Harmonizing Interventions’ by Party Work Teams in Chinese Village Elections”, China Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.14214 (SSCI)

2022 M. Ma, Y. Y. Feng and Y. Kang, “Demanding Individuality in Cross-sector Collaboration: The Case of Social Enterprise in Hong Kong”, Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, https://doi.org/10.20899/jpna.8.3.375-398 (ESCI)

2020 M. Ma and W. J. Zhuang, “Rural under the Rural Revitalization Strategy – Analysis of village follow-up data based on the 2012–2016 China labor force dynamic survey”, China Public Policy Review (CSSCI, in Chinese)

Book Chapters

2020 Zheng, Y., Zheng, Z., Ma, M. and Zu, Z., “Improving Usability.” E-Government and Information Technology Management: Concepts and Best Practices, 43. Amazon.

Working Papers

2024 “Consolidated Control and Diverse Missions: Capacities and Incentives for Lenient Disciplinary Practices by China’s Local-Level Commission for Discipline Inspection”, Under Review2024 “Collaborating Bureaucrats and Experts: An Institutional Logic Perspective on Large

Research Projects and Experiences

2023.03 – Present, Major Team Member “SCRIPTS: Reinterpreting the alternative script? War in Ukraine, state-sponsored narratives of block building in authoritarian countries and their public perception”, PIs: Prof. Alexander Libman and Prof. Genia Kostka, Free University Berlin.
2021.09 – 2022.09, Sub-project Manager “Combating COVID-19 in Hong Kong”, PI: Dr. Celine Song, Hong Kong Baptist University
2020.12 – 2021.12, Principal Investigator “The Role of Social Work in Community Governance”, Shunde District Social Innovation Center
2017.01 – 2018.12, Team Member “Social Investigation of Public Attitudes Toward Social Welfare”, PI: Prof. Kinglun Ngok, Sun Yat-sen University
2016.07 – 2017.03, Project Manager Associate “Project Assessment of Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution Control”, PI: Dr. Li Fan, The World BankGrants2024, Co-Investigator
“Investigate the potential of AI in Climate Change”, 5601 e, Co-PI: Wang Chuyao (LSE), Han Feng(LSE), Li Jiaxun (Harvard)2024, Principal Organizer
“Sharpening Analytic Instruments of Narrative Contestation During Conflicts”, 5325 e, Workshop

Funding

2023, PI “The Investigation of Collective Economy Development in Rural China”, 3100 e, Nanjing Municipal Government, China
2022, PI “Institutional Logic and Development of Community Governance”, 6000 e, Shunde District Government, China
2021, PI “The Study of Grassroots Party Organizations in Rural China”, 4700 e, Hong Kong Baptist University

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