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Competition between unequals: the role of mainstream party strategy in niche party success / Meguid, Bonnie M

Meguid, Bonnie M	Journal Article
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2005.

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North America ; Internakl Politics ; Socio Economic

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ID: 081239

From 'class' to 'social strata': grasping the social totality in reform-era China / Anagnost, Ann

Anagnost, Ann	Journal Article
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2008.

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Reform era China has witnessed the simultaneous production of a middle class and increasing socioeconomic inequality. The ideological counterpart of this development is a new form of cultural nationalism that stands in striking contrast to Maoist developmentalism and in striking conformity with neoliberal logics. This article explores this shift in Chinese nationalism and national ideology by looking at the rejection of the language of class and the adoption of social strata as the language of social analysis. This shift has produced a new model of citizenship which seeks to manage the newly stratified society by articulating inequality as cultural difference in a hierarchy of national belonging. At the same time this neoliberal ethos is in dialogue with calls for social responsibility by left-liberal intellectuals in the wake of a rising number of popular protests and a growing concern about social inequality. This essay will discuss aspects of middle-class formation in China's economic reforms, first, by exploring its textual production as a category for social scientific analysis and social critique. Then it will explore how middle-classness becomes represented in mass media forms such as advertising as a new form of identity that is staged in anticipation of its realisation as a widespread social phenomenon

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Nationalism ; Development ; China ; Socio Economic

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ID: 082245

Social capital at work: The Dynamics and consequences of grassroots movements in urban China / Fayong, Shi

Fayong, Shi	Journal Article
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2008.

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The past decade and a half has seen an increase in civil resistance by community-based socioeconomic groups in China's urban neighborhoods. Existing theories of social movements are inadequate to explain the dynamics and consequences of such grassroots movements. This article examines one community-based movement in Shanghai to show that, with the transformation of local governance, protest activists can improve their resistance capabilities by utilizing social capital to mobilize residents horizontally and, at the same time, to enlist support vertically from high-level authorities on the other. Earlier studies have identified mass dissatisfaction and changes in political structures as two vital factors affecting grassroots movements. This article adds a third important factor: social capital. Furthermore, the author finds that conflicts involving sociopolitical forces outside the community can enhance social capital in local communities. The author shows how an exploration of the causal relations between social capital and collective resistance contributes to our understanding of social movements and local politics in urban China

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Social Movement ; Socio Economic ; Urban China

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ID: 076289

Survey of socioeconomic disparities among baby boomers / Atsushi, Miura

Atsushi, Miura	Journal Article
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2006.

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Socio Economic ; Japan - Socio Economic

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