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Diqing Lou 《Journal of Chinese Political Science》2009,14(2):167-190
This paper is interested in the decline of congressional voting in urban China. Classic studies in comparative politics long
argue that with economic development, countries would experience increased level of political participation. Employing the
1993 Social Mobility and Social Change Survey and 2002 Asian Barometer Survey, I found congressional voting in urban China
declined substantially in the past decade. With the analyses of the Probit Model and Generalized Linear Model, I contributed
this decline to the disappearance of sociopolitical institutions that used to serve critical conduits for citizens’ participation.
I argue that although economic development produces more resources to encourage participation, overall political participation
actually declines in urban China and the public opts to withdraw from politics.
Dr. Diqing Lou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Potical Science at Rider University. Her main area of research is comparative politics, especially Chinese politics, with a focus on political participation, political representation and development of civil society. 相似文献
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Dr. Diqing Lou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Potical Science at Rider University. Her main area of research is comparative politics, especially Chinese politics, with a focus on political participation, political representation and development of civil society. 相似文献
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Little has been done to quantitatively establish the connection between the middle class and a specific regime type. In an
effort to fill in the gap, this study uses Asian Barometer survey dataset to examine the attitudes and orientation of China’s
rising middle class. We find that the Chinese middle class does show higher democratic orientation than those we categorize
as lower class, but only if class is defined by occupation or by self-identification, and not by income level. We interpret
this result to mean that economic development offers new life experiences with the creation of new types of professions and
enhances people’s agreement with modern democratic values by arousing people’s consciousness of their new social class status.
Min Tang is doctoral candidate of political science at Purdue University. His research interest is in democratization, Asian political economy, and Chinese politics. His recent publications appear in Democratization (15:1, 2008) and African and Asian Studies (7:2, 2008). Dwayne Woods is associate professor of Political Science at Purdue University. His research interest includes democratization, geography and economic development. His recent work can be found in African and Asian Studies (7:2, 2008) and Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (45:2, 2007). Jujun Zhao is PhD student of public administration at Nankai University. His research focuses on local government, public finance, and Chinese politics. 相似文献
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Min Tang is doctoral candidate of political science at Purdue University. His research interest is in democratization, Asian political economy, and Chinese politics. His recent publications appear in Democratization (15:1, 2008) and African and Asian Studies (7:2, 2008). Dwayne Woods is associate professor of Political Science at Purdue University. His research interest includes democratization, geography and economic development. His recent work can be found in African and Asian Studies (7:2, 2008) and Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (45:2, 2007). Jujun Zhao is PhD student of public administration at Nankai University. His research focuses on local government, public finance, and Chinese politics. 相似文献
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Wilfred M. McClay 《Society》2008,45(5):403-405
Whatever else the 2008 presidential election may result in, we can be sure that it will only contribute further to the steadily
declining role of political parties in American politics, and the myriad negative consequences arising from that decline.
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Wilfred M. McClayEmail: |
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Karl Popper’s equation of the closed society with tribalism is reviewed and modified. The German origins of the anthropological
concept of culture and its related ideas of the folk culture and cultural relativism are explored. The vicissitudes of the
idea of The Folk and its swing from Right to Left are related to contemporary neo-primitivism. The open society and high culture
are defended.
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Robin FoxEmail: |
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The restoration and development of political science as a discipline in China since 1980 benefits from its methodological
improvements that were made largely by introducing research approaches from western academia. The aim of this paper is to
examine the evolution of the introduction based on articles published in Chinese academic journals since 1990. There exists
a wide diversity in research approaches in political science, and the authors try to explain why each approach has a different
impact on Chinese political studies and how the introduction of such knowledge has changed the way Chinese political researchers
understand the methodology and political science as a discipline.
Jing Yuejin Professor of Political Science at Renmin University of China. His teaching and research interests cover comparative politics, political sociology, and Chinese politics. Currently, he concentrates on the study of the transformation of China’s Party-State, and the changing state-society relations in contemporary China. His major publications include Introduction to Political Science (2006), On the Relations Between Village Committees and Party Branches in Rural China Since 1990’ (2004), The Transformation of Political Space in Contemporary China (2004), Introduction to Comparative Politics (2001), Theories and Methods in Social Research (1990). Wang Guoqin a Ph.D and Lecturer in Zhejiang School of Administration. 相似文献
Guoqin WangEmail: |
Jing Yuejin Professor of Political Science at Renmin University of China. His teaching and research interests cover comparative politics, political sociology, and Chinese politics. Currently, he concentrates on the study of the transformation of China’s Party-State, and the changing state-society relations in contemporary China. His major publications include Introduction to Political Science (2006), On the Relations Between Village Committees and Party Branches in Rural China Since 1990’ (2004), The Transformation of Political Space in Contemporary China (2004), Introduction to Comparative Politics (2001), Theories and Methods in Social Research (1990). Wang Guoqin a Ph.D and Lecturer in Zhejiang School of Administration. 相似文献
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In a polarized opinion climate, people may refrain from participating in publicly observable political activities that make them vulnerable to scrutiny and criticism by others who hold opinions that differ from their own. We took a dispositional approach to testing this claim by determining whether people who are relatively more influenced by the climate of opinion when choosing whether or not to voice an opinion, measured with the Willingness to Self-Censor scale [Hayes et al. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 17 (2005) 298], are also relatively less likely to engage in public political activities. In a poll of residents of the United States, we found that even after controlling for interest in politics, political ideology, ideological extremity, political efficacy, attention to political news, dispositional shyness, frequency of political discussion, and demographics, dispositional self-censors reported having engaged in relatively fewer public political activities over the prior 2 years compared to those less willing to censor their own opinion expression. These results are consistent with our interpretation of political participation as a social process that is governed in part by the social psychological implications of participation to the person. At a larger theoretical level, our findings connect the literature on opinion perceptions and opinion expression with research on political participation.
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Michael E. HugeEmail: |
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The authors develop a new multi-level streams model in order to explain the Chinese decision-making process with regards to
the top-down allocation of resources and administrative reforms. Using this policy model, the 2005 decision to upgrade the
Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) to the national level can be regarded as a relatively rational choice with a series of interaction
of political processes among the elites at the central and local levels such as the local officials and social elites, and
central leaders. However, in the administrative system of economic development, there are disagreements and conflicts among
different parts within and outside the TBNA. The central and the Tianjin governments are now trying to coordinate the relationship
among local governments within the Circum-Bohai Region and within the TBNA through structural reform and personnel reshuffling.
Xufeng Zhu is an associate professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, and a Yenching Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. His current research interests involve the study of the Chinese policy process, China’s think tanks, policy analyses, and social stratification in transitional China. His recent publications appear in Social Sciences in China (in Chinese), Policy Sciences, Public Administration and Development, and Asian Survey, to name a few. He is also the author of a forthcoming book entitled China’s Think Tanks: The Research on Their Influences in the Policy Process (in Chinese). Bing Sun is an assistant professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University. His current research interests involve the study of China urban and regional public administration. His recent publication is Regional Coordination Organization and Regional Governance (in Chinese). 相似文献
Xufeng ZhuEmail: |
Xufeng Zhu is an associate professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, and a Yenching Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. His current research interests involve the study of the Chinese policy process, China’s think tanks, policy analyses, and social stratification in transitional China. His recent publications appear in Social Sciences in China (in Chinese), Policy Sciences, Public Administration and Development, and Asian Survey, to name a few. He is also the author of a forthcoming book entitled China’s Think Tanks: The Research on Their Influences in the Policy Process (in Chinese). Bing Sun is an assistant professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University. His current research interests involve the study of China urban and regional public administration. His recent publication is Regional Coordination Organization and Regional Governance (in Chinese). 相似文献
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This article outlines the recent development of Chinese political studies spawned by the transformation of Chinese politics
in the post-Mao era, with its focus mainly on contributions from the Chinese scholarship. After a close examination of the
applicability of the western theories on the transforming politics in China, it reviews the indigenous methodologies, the
theorizations on the Chinese Communist Party, the state-society relationship analysis, and research on the central-local relationship.
Referring to the original works in different periods, the article generally portrays the indigenous contributions of the Chinese
academia, and illustrates the essential connections between real politics and theoretical progress.
Yang Guangbin PhD, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Renmin University of China. Professor Yang’s research areas include comparative institutional analysis, the political economy of China, institutions of governance, regulatory state, democratic politics, political development, Chinese domestic political economy and foreign relations. Li Miao a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Renmin University of China. His research interests include political development, state-society relationship, and religion & politics, with a particular emphasis on the Church-State relations in contemporary China. 相似文献
Guangbin YangEmail: |
Yang Guangbin PhD, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Renmin University of China. Professor Yang’s research areas include comparative institutional analysis, the political economy of China, institutions of governance, regulatory state, democratic politics, political development, Chinese domestic political economy and foreign relations. Li Miao a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Renmin University of China. His research interests include political development, state-society relationship, and religion & politics, with a particular emphasis on the Church-State relations in contemporary China. 相似文献
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Lin Chun 《Journal of Chinese Political Science》2009,14(1):21-48
This is the second of a three-part polemic against the destruction of state owned enterprises in China (the first, “Against
Privatization: A Historical and Empirical Argument”, is published in JCPS 13:1, 2008). It critically examines the ideology of privatization and argues for alternative guidelines of reform. The central
contention is that a healthy market economy does not require domination of private property; rather it relies on apposite
political-legal-ideological power and regulatory-monitoring regimes of accumulation and distribution socially legitimated
within a given public culture. Rejecting the fallacies of ownership determinism and precision requirement on property rights
for morality and efficiency, this essay clarifies distinction between the notion of exclusive properties and the vision of
their socialized utility and management. Justifications for reforming state and private sectors alike in accordance with a
unifying commons of social defense and feasibilities of innovative reform measures and policy proposals in that direction,
will be elaborated in a third essay titled “Overcoming Privatization: A Strategic and Institutional Argument”.
Dr. Lin Chun teaches comparative politics in the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a doctorate in History and Political Science from the University of Cambridge and has published in both Chinese and English. Her most recent book is The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (Duke University Press, 2006). She is writing a new book on challenges for political sciences from the case of China. The author is grateful to two anonymous reviewers and Professor Sujian Guo for their critical comments and suggestions. 相似文献
Lin ChunEmail: |
Dr. Lin Chun teaches comparative politics in the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a doctorate in History and Political Science from the University of Cambridge and has published in both Chinese and English. Her most recent book is The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (Duke University Press, 2006). She is writing a new book on challenges for political sciences from the case of China. The author is grateful to two anonymous reviewers and Professor Sujian Guo for their critical comments and suggestions. 相似文献
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Robert Weissberg 《Society》2009,46(4):324-332
Despite ample debates over the efficacy of school choice, theorizing has lagged behind and this hinders progress. Milton Friedman,
the choice movement founder, never claimed that choice would improve academics; choice was inherently valuable and parents
might demand anything. Choice advocates also exaggerate the remedial power of markets and proliferating academic options seldom
brings academic diligence. Given free tutoring opportunities, those lagging behind reject them, and costs will usually be
too high for most low achievers. Extensive schooling options already exist, so waging political battles to add more is unnecessary.
Moreover, today’s supposed “school choice” is not genuine consumer choice no matter how educationally worthwhile; it is imposed
from above san consumer input. Even when choice schools shine, it is unclear why. If free to chose, consumes may prefer non-academics.
Finally, if choice qua choice is the standard, focusing on academic achievement is misdirected.
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Robert WeissbergEmail: |
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Vlad Oprica 《Human Rights Review》2008,9(1):29-40
The idea of gender equality has been and still is an exogenous concept in Romanian culture. Initially introduced and institutionalized
by communist ideology after World War II along with other utopian egalitarian principles, gender equality remains to this day a somewhat alien concept in practice for the majority of the Romanian population. Nevertheless, in the early twenty-first
century, with renewed economic growth and more liberal governance in Romania, the gender equality debate has intensified,
and multiple advocacies now compete on the political and social arenas. The most notable actors shaping current attitudes
toward women in Romania are the Orthodox Church, political parties, feminist organizations, and the media.
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Vlad OpricaEmail: |
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Marc D. Guerra 《Society》2009,46(4):333-340
This essay examines the viability of a publically held, articulated, and enacted bioethic in America's democratic regime.
The essay takes the writings of several thinkers associated with the President's Council on Bioethics as its point of departure.
The essay draws attention to some of the enduring moral, political, religious, and intellectual currents inherent in American
civil society that will continue to provide both resources for and obstacles to any publicly held bioethic in America.
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Marc D. GuerraEmail: |
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James M. Avery 《Political Behavior》2007,29(3):327-342
In contrast to what we know about the sources of political trust among whites, recent research suggests that political mistrust
among blacks indicates discontent with the political system. The current study adds to research investigating racial differences
in political trust by examining racial differences in the influence of the 2000 United States presidential election on political
trust. Specifically, I test for whether whites and blacks adjusted their trust in government in response to the Supreme Court’s
decision in Bush versus Gore (2000) and whether the influence of the Court’s decision on trust was dependent on partisan identification. The findings
indicate that blacks perceived the Court’s decision as illegitimate, reinforcing their mistrust in their political system.
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James M. AveryEmail: |
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Stephen T. Mockabee 《Political Behavior》2007,29(2):221-248
In this study I adopt a view of cultural conflict that extends beyond the usual set of controversial “moral” issues like abortion
and gay rights to include symbolic issues related to patriotism and group affect. Using a set of survey items asking about
respondents’ preferences in child-rearing, I create a measure of individuals’ orientations toward authority that proves to
be a potent predictor of attitudes on cultural issues, affect toward social groups, party identification, and vote choice.
This authority effect persists even in the presence of extensive multivariate controls for demographic and religious variables.
I find that both authority measures and religion measures shape political attitudes, suggesting the need for a multi-faceted approach to understanding cultural conflict.
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Stephen T. MockabeeEmail: |
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Does Workplace Experience Enhance Political Participation? A Critical Test of a Venerable Hypothesis
Per Adman 《Political Behavior》2008,30(1):115-138
Several schools of thought claim that citizens can develop their democratic skills at the workplace. Here I focus on the hypothesis
put forward by Carole Pateman and by Sidney Verba and colleagues that state that by practicing civic skills and democratic
decision-making at the workplace, citizens become more active in politics. I test the hypothesis with a nationally representative
panel survey of the Swedish population. My findings contradict previous empirical research as no impact on political participation
was discovered. I argue that the effects may have been overestimated in prior studies because the tests were based on cross-sectional
data: insufficient care was taken with a number of significant methodological problems. The study points to the importance
of using panel models when investigating the causes of political participation.
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Per AdmanEmail: |
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Bryan S. Turner 《Society》2008,45(3):260-266
In response to Roger Sandall’s critical analysis, the problematic notion of culture in modern anthropology is examined in
terms of cultural resistance to globalization. The example of McDonaldization is taken to be a potent instance of cultural
globalization. Three conditions for successful cultural resistance to cultural standardization are proposed. The first is
cultural in the shape of a strong aesthetic tradition of (national) resistance. This dimension involves some degree of cultural
conservatism. The second condition is political, namely a viable and robust civil society that provides the basis for decisive
(cultural) leadership. The third element is the involvement of the state in policies that promote and sustain a national heritage.
Without this state involvement, global market conditions will largely shape the erosion of local and national cultures. Without
a political response to cultural globalization, global market commodities will in all likelihood oust local goods and services.
Those societies that lack both a strong aesthetic and an effective political leadership can offer little effective resistance
to negative globalization and their local traditions are quickly destroyed. This argument is then examined in terms of a number
of societies especially Turkey, China and Japan where the erosion of national cultures is proceeding rapidly. These critical
assertions against global standardization require a strong first-order notion of culture which modern anthropology appears
to be unable or unwilling to provide.
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Bryan S. TurnerEmail: |
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Political behavior is triggered by the presence of a variety of material and cognitive resources, including political efficacy.
The dominant view conceptualizes efficacy as capital, used to overcome obstacles to participation. Our theory suggests that
unlike other resources, efficacy aids in the development of habitual participation by activating a particular negative emotion,
anger. Using the 1990–1992 NES Panel, we find that internal efficacy boosts participation in part by facilitating anger, but
not fear, in response to policy threats. This partial mediating effect operates primarily among younger citizens who are in
the process of developing the habit of participation. External efficacy, because it is not self-referential, is not causally
linked to participation via emotions. Finally, internal efficacy is enhanced by successful participation in politics, closing
a feedback loop that helps explain participatory habits.
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Nicholas A. ValentinoEmail: |
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Catherine Simpson Bueker 《Society》2009,46(5):423-428
Policy makers tend to focus on the extension of citizenship as the primary means by which new populations become incorporated
into a society. Although acquiring formal citizenship is necessary in order to participate in many aspects of a state's civic,
social, and political life, the extension of legal citizenship is far from a guarantee for full membership. Instead of focusing
exclusively on naturalizing immigrants, we need to consider T.H. Marshall's three spheres of citizenship—the civil, political,
and social. By extending social elements of citizenship prior to or at the same time as we extend other benefits, we will
move towards more complete citizenship for and greater civil and political engagement among all residents in our society—non-citizens,
naturalized, and native-born, alike.
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Catherine Simpson BuekerEmail: |
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In 1935 Harold D. Lasswell introduced constructs of the world revolution to improve the rational selection of topics and timing
for policy research. This article reviews and updates his construct of the skill revolution arising from the differentiation
of specialized environments in modern society, including three variants: the garrison-state construct, the permanent revolution
of modernizing intellectuals, and the unspeakable revolution. Among transformations of the skill revolution facilitated by
the growing interdependence of modern society, or globalization, are contending fundamentalist and cosmopolitan revolutions.
A Gnostic revolution of declining faith in Western civilization is also possible. This article concludes with a preferential
construct tracing a possible sequence of events leading toward a world order of peace, welfare and social justice.
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Ronald D. BrunnerEmail: |
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Robert L. Jackson 《Society》2008,45(1):20-29
Over the past year, several published volumes have argued that American politics is careening out of control, toward a slippery
slope of twenty-first century theocracy. Most of these books present tendentious interpretations of contemporary politics
as matter-of-fact analysis. The reader is assumed to hold the same interpretive bias and warned of the dangers of a new and
powerful American “fundamentalism.” The current article explores a historical parallel to today’s trend. Nearly a century
ago, the Progressive Education movement sought to undermine the pedagogical dominance of traditional, literature-based education,
preferring a more socially-conscious curriculum. The striking similarities between John Dewey’s anti-traditional approach
and the present-day anti-theocracy faction are multitude—and worth our consideration. The seeds of Progressive Education are
now producing weeds of anti-religious sentiment across America’s political landscape—a cultural phenomena that is constricting
the growth of a much needed civil discourse.
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Robert L. JacksonEmail: |