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De-ideologized mass line, regime responsiveness, and state-society relations / Korolev, Alexander

Korolev, Alexander	Journal Article
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Once the primary method of revolutionary leadership, the “mass line” has reemerged in today’s China as a method of public policy making. Th is study explores and theorizes the implications of mass-line tactics in policy making and state-society relations in contemporary China. At the theoretical level, it argues that the de-ideologized mass line in combination with traditional forms of nonmobilized participation can enhance government responsiveness to the broader public interest. Th e mass line can complement traditional forms of voluntary participation in that it can allow better representation of social groups who regularly fail to articulate their needs through the existing participation mechanisms and who therefore remain outside of the policy-making process. Empirically, the paper draws on existing Chinese studies, official document analysis, and unstructured interviews with Chinese academics to provide examples for the theoretical argument. Th is study analyzes the workings of the mass-line tactics in China during the New Healthcare Reform and the formation of the 12th Five-Year Plan. If implemented not as a propaganda tool but as a mechanism of interest articulation and aggregation, the mass line has the potential to off er China alternative routes of democratization.

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China ; Public Policy ; New ; Revolutionary Leadership ; Healthcare Reform ; Democratizatio

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What democratization, trade expectations, and military power all mean for the future of Sino-American relations / Katagiri, Noriyuki

Katagiri, Noriyuki	Journal Article
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This article analyzes Sino-American relations using three strands of international relations scholarship–internal stability, trade expectations, and military perception. There has been no attempt to date to explore the stability of Sino-American relations in the context of linkage between them. This study argues that political and economic interactions of the two major powers provide reasons to be optimistic that the relations will stay relatively stable. Although there is a significant amount of mistrust between Beijing and Washington on military and cyber matters, deterrence is largely at work at the highest level of interactions.

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Military Power ; Sino-American Relations ; Trade Expectations ; Democratizatio

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