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Localist parties have become an emerging force in Hong Kong's political landscape. What has caused the rise of localism in the city? Extant studies focus on cultural and social factors. In this article, we propose a political economy explanation: global and regional economic factors have caused...
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A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind - that's the vision for China set out by … a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the 'China Story' is a complex one. The China … presents a range of perspectives, from the global to the individual, the official to the unofficial, from mainland China to …
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residential committees (RC), in China's urban neighbourhoods and communities (shequ). It shows that these elections at present are … a collective economy as in most of China's villages. RCs are primarily important to those weaker strata of society who … about - RC elections in the daily lives of China's urban dwellers still are, they still have some influence on political …
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in rural China. We construct a large panel data set of village administrative records to document the history of …
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This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...
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I investigate the association of China’s retaliatory soybean tariff on the Republican vote share change between the … 2016 and 2018 mid-term elections. Using county-level election data, I find a significantly negative and spatially …
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subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …
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this question through by analyzing voter turnout in local elections in China. Using an instrument variable strategy, I find … increases the opportunity costs of time spent on voting; (ii) education reduces electoral stakes; and (iii) education in China …
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