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China and India, as rising powers, have been proactive in seeking status as nuclear responsibles. Since the 1990s they have sought to demonstrate conformity with intersubjectively accepted understandings of nuclear responsibility within the global nuclear order, and have also sought recognition on the basis of particularistic practices of nuclear restraint. This article addresses two puzzles. First, nuclear restraint is at the centre of the pursuit of global nuclear order, so why have China and India not received recognition from influential members of the nuclear order for the full spectrum of their restraint-based behaviours? Second, why do China and India nonetheless persist with these behaviours? We argue that the conferral of status as a nuclear responsible is a politicised process shaped by the interests, values, and perceptions of powerful stakeholder states in the global nuclear order. China’s and India’s innovations are not incorporated into the currently accepted set of responsible nuclear behaviours because, indirectly, they pose a strategic, political, and social challenge to these states. However, China’s and India’s innovations are significant as an insight into their identity-projection and preferred social roles as distinctive rising powers, and as a means of introducing new, if nascent, ideas into non-proliferation practice and governance.
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187861
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This paper utilizes data from the China Household Finance Survey 2011 to study peer effects in housing demand in rural China. We find that focal households' housing consumption is heavily influenced by peer households' housing consumption. Evidence from placebo tests, IV estimates and robust tests suggests that the relationship is causal. In addition, we show that status seeking and social learning play important roles in determining peer effects in the demand for rural houses. Finally, we explore the heterogeneity in peer effects and determine that the leading mechanism is status seeking.
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