Zhengxu Wang

TL;DR: The authors examined the factors affecting citizens' satisfaction with their government in six Asian-Pacific countries: America, Australia, China, India, Japan, and Russia, and found that if a country's economy is growing fast, citizens are much more likely to be satisfied with government performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a core group of Beijing activists behind the organization, expression and participation of homeowners' associations, using data collected from interviews, documents and participatory observations conducted over a period of more than two years, they were able to pin down the socioeconomic, social and political backgrounds of these leaders, as well as their attitudes, objectives and repertoire of actions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three rules regarding the party's power succession that would provide a critical test regarding how radically Xi is prepared to alter the Party's key norms, and the outcome of the 19th party congress in late 2017 would make it clearer whether Xi is in an effort to fur...

TL;DR: This article examined women's participation in village self-governance in an Eastern Chinese county and found that despite the existence of formal institutions and an active role of the state, women participation in rural governance remains seriously limited.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the evolving process in which these rules were made and accepted by the Chinese elite between 1992 and 2012, and identify three sets of rules and norms formed since then to govern elite replacement and power succession, which concern top leaders exit from power, selection of successors, and the transition of power between outgoing and incoming leaders.