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- Cut text.... January 24, 2019Dictatorships are rarely transparent. The manner through which a few individuals make decisions that others implement in the absence of decisive elections remains hazy enough that the trite or cliché—the black box, the secret meeting, the hidden network of power—are obvious and ubiquitous for a reason. Each dictator and dictatorship is unique, politically, h […]
- "But the paramount reason for resisting this deal, and any other, is what it would mean symbolically..." January 24, 2019“But the paramount reason for resisting this deal, and any other, is what it would mean symbolically to erect the wall or any portion of it. Like Trump himself, it would represent a repudiation of the pluralism and inclusivity that characterizes America at its best. It would stand as a lasting reminder of the white racial hostility surging through this momen […]
- "My heart goes out to the people living in hardship. In Sanhe Village of Liangshan in Sichuan..." January 4, 2019“My heart goes out to the people living in hardship. In Sanhe Village of Liangshan in Sichuan Province, I visited the families of two villagers from the Yi people. In Sanjianxi Village in Jinan City in Shandong Province, I sat down with the family of Zhao Shunli to hear about their day-to-day lives. In the Donghuayuan community in the city of Fushun in Liaon […]
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Crisis by the Numbers
The excellent ChinaFile project has a new conversation based on the following question: Why’s China’s Smog Crisis Still Burning So Hot? The core answers are already provided by Alex Wang, Isabel Hilton, Jeremy Goldkorn, and Shai Oster. China has developed … Continue reading
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Fresh from the Journals
Profiling the Victims: public awareness of pollution-related harm in China Relational Repression in China: Using Social Ties to Demobilize Protesters Can China Bring Back the Best? The Communist Party Organizes China’s Search for Talent All China today.
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Fresh from the Journals
Second of a regular series. Also note that these aren’t truly that fresh since I’m going through the backlog of my unread RSS. 1. Participation in IMF-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America, 1980-2007 2. Non-state actors in civil … Continue reading
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Fresh off the Firstview
There was a time not so long ago that I would go through dozens of RSS feeds on a near daily basis using Google reader. Then google reader died. I set up feedly and digg reader but rarely used them. … Continue reading
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Big ships turn slowly
I am on the record as being skeptical that the Chinese regime is going to change its urbanization policies radically in the upcoming Third Plenum. Sinocism‘s continuing coverage of news related to the twists and turns of this debate has … Continue reading
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On a gated globe, where are the walls?
Dan Drezner notes an amusing coincidence: an Economist special report on a “gated globe” is published on the same day that the NYT runs an op-ed entitled “The End of the Nation-State?” about a global free exchange led by cities … Continue reading
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Student Blogging
I had my students write blog posts for class. Here’s what happened. While a fellow at Yale’s MacMillan Center for the academic year, I’m teaching a course on Contemporary Nondemocratic Regimes. It’s a seminar with a final paper rather than … Continue reading
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