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Seven Design Principles of Successful Scholar-Based Governance

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This chapter analyzes seven design principles for promoting scholars’ participation in collective action. Based on reanalyzing the 13 related factors differentiating scholars’ participation in combating desertification in the seven counties in the first stage of this study, I first summarize these seven principles. Then, I test their generalizability by analyzing the rest 43 cases in the second stage of this study. Together, based on a comparative study of 50 cases, this chapter indicates that successful scholar-based governance needs to satisfy seven design principles.

The Master said, ‘I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.’ (In Chinese: 子曰: “不愤不启, 不悱不发, 举一隅不以三隅反, 则不复也。” (《论语·述而第七》)).

—Confucian analects (1900, p. 61)

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Yang, L. (2019). Seven Design Principles of Successful Scholar-Based Governance. In: Knowledge-Driven Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2910-4_5

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