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Green Governance - One Solution for two problems? Climate change and economic shocks: risk perceptions and coping strategies in China, India and Bangladesh
Senz, Anja; Reinhardt, Dieter - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2010
This collection of papers is based on an international workshop held in the summer of 2009 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. It brings together different perceptions regarding China, India and Bangladesh as they face the risks and crises of climate change and economic shocks like the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003539
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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside
Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011
The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207515
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Task Force: Nahrungsmittel in China - Food security- und Food safety-Problematik in China
Löhr, Susanne; Trappel, René - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2011
Umweltverschmutzung, Urbanisierung sowie die Versorgung der noch immer wachsenden Bevölkerung sind große Herausforderungen für Chinas Nahrungsmittelpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert. Diese Publikation zeichnet verschiedene Aspekte im Zusammenhang mit Nahrungsmitteln in China nach - von der...
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Some reflections on the current situation in China
Heberer, Thomas - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2012
Chinese state as a developmental state; the issue of whether the party state exhibits stability and legitimacy. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957772
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Task force: Gewerkschaften, Arbeitsmarktregulierung und Migration in China
Pütten, Jann Christoph von der; Göbel, Christian - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2013
Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen am chinesischen Arbeitsmarkt. Sie analysiert die Funktion chinesischer Gewerkschaften und die Rolle von Tarifverhandlungen im Lohnfindungsprozess, aber auch die grundlegende Frage, ob Chinas Reservoir an billigen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985720
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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy
Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012
In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650717
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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2008
We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464914
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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa
Inman, Robert P. - 2012
South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460859