Studies looking at gender and ethnic minority outcomes in China's labour market have generally suggested that women and minorities are separately experiencing a wage disadvantage relative to males and the Han majority respectively. But, what is the experience of this combined cohort, ethnic...

This article offers a conceptual framework to identify and analyze the contemporary behavior of the paradoxical government-organized, non-governmental organization (GONGO). We discuss how GONGOs' activities fit within mainstream civil society theories and traditions. Furthermore, we compare and...

This study argues that different cities in China have different resource environments available for NGOs. Organizations react to these resource environments by constructing appropriate resource strategies, which in turn shape the characteristics and structures of the NGOs of that city. It...

Autocrats typically seek public support on the basis of economic growth-promotion and redistribution policies, and China is no exception. As important as these factors are for authoritarian resilience, we argue that economic legitimation is a more complex phenomenon than has previously been...

This article discusses the main determinants of the European Union's strategic engagement with China with reference to three competing analytical explanations: institutional, socio-cultural, and agency and stakeholder. The article examines the utility of each explanation, and outlines...

The English version of this paper can be found at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2814215" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2814215.Russian Abstract: В данной статье предлагается концептуальная основа для определения и анализа...

This article introduces the historical context behind the practice of fixed ethnic identification currently employed in the People's Republic of China. Notwithstanding the major problems to clearly delineate the boundaries of many ethnic groups in the Chinese context, the article contends there...

This paper argues that the Beijing Consensus represents a philosophical movement towards an ultra-pragmatic view of conducting policy deliberation. Contrary to models of development which provide a subset of policy prescriptions for the policymakers' disposal or a fundamentalist adherence to a...

Foreign affairs policymaking inputs by think tanks are one of the most difficult analytical characteristics to disaggregate and analyze. This is further compounded when examining an authoritarian regime such as China with limited publicly accessible information. Using novel text analytical...

The English version of this paper can be found at https://ssrn.com/abstract=2984141Chinese Abstract:...