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In 1976, Mao Zedong, who had reigned China since 1949 and waged the Cultural Revolution in 1966, died, ending the most politically repressive and economically destructive era in the contemporary Chinese history as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
In 1976, Mao Zedong, who had reigned China since 1949 and waged the Cultural Revolution in 1966, died, ending the most politically repressive and economically destructive era in the contemporary Chinese history. His death provided a rare opportunity for China to change. Since the late 1970s, China has embarked on an unprecedented reform and opening-up that eventually altered the political, economic, and social landscape of the country.read more
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Among a Hundred Good Virtues, Filial Piety is the First: Contemporary Moral Discourses on Filial Piety in Urban China
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the contemporary meaning of filial piety from the perspective of urban Chinese adults who were born under the One-Child Policy and argued that filial pietary piety has transformed into a family ethic that is based on egalitarian intergenerational relationships and intimate parent-child bonding.
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A Ticking "Time Bomb"? ‒ Youth Employment Problems in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the different dimensions of the inadequate employment situation of Chinese youth and provided evidence to support all five of these assumptions, although indications of direct actions being undertaken by unemployed young people in China in response are rather scarce.
Loser or Rebels? Unemployed Youth in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the employment situation of young people in China based on statistics and written material, and tried to find hints whether rising social unrest is linked with the job situation of Chinese youth.
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The power to tax : analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution
TL;DR: Buchanan and Brennan's "The Power to Tax" as mentioned in this paper was a much-needed answer to the tax revolts sweeping across the United States in the early 1980s.
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Is There a Leviathan in Your Neighborhood
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of decentralization in local government hierarchies on local public sector size were investigated. And the authors showed that decentralization which encourages competition reduces the size of the local public sectors.
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Fiscal decentralization and government size
TL;DR: The authors analyzes one device that appears capable of controlling some of that growth, namely, fiscal decentralization, and finds that it supports the use of monopoly government assumptions in models of public policy.
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Public Expenditure Decentralization in Developing Countries
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the extent of public expenditure decentralization among developing countries, and identify its determinants, using data compiled from international data collected from the World Wide Web.
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The Benefits of Federalism and the Risk of Overcentralization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some elements of a more comparative, process oriented approach to evaluate the citizens' incentives to make use of the voice and exit options in the post-constitutional political process.