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Rethinking Global Distributive Justice: Legal and Economic Norms Addressing Crises of Global Health, Hunger, and Sustainability

century, it is urgent that global distributive justice garners increased attention due to recent events spanning the past decade along with modern political ideologies and jurisprudence. This Article ... Prof. Benedict Sheehy*, Associate Prof. Ying Chen**, and Dr. Juan Diaz- Grandos*** HUNGER SUSTAINABILITY TABLE OF CONTENTS III. A NOTE ON THEORY IV. DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE V. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during COVID-19

other words: they serve authoritarian leaders on a silver platter the opportunity to instrumentalize these unforeseen circumstances to gain domestic political legitimacy by promoting strategic narratives ... heroism, supremacy, and strength. While much of this rhetoric was deliberately targeted at foreign audiences, political communication vis-à-vis domestic ones seems even more important in terms of gaining

Trade Dependence, Uncertainty Expectations, and Sino–U.S. Political Relations

This study applies a time-varying parameter/stochastic volatility vector autoregression (TVP-SV-VAR) model to explore the time-varying property of the link between Sino-US political relations and ... unstable. Sino-US political relations have positive and negative impacts on their bilateral trade, and the impact on Chinese imports is stronger than on its exports. In turn, Chinese imports from the US lead

Political Turnover and Innovation: Evidence from China

This paper explores cycles in innovative outcomes corresponding with the timing of political turnover. Using data on local government officials and firm level innovation activities in China, firm

Assemblies of Parties to Multilateral Treaties and Their Normative Authority

Assemblies of states parties to multilateral treaties are of a twofold nature: those that are active, entrepreneurial, and rally both the political and financial dimensions as well as the ... multilateral human rights treaties. This Article suggests the emergence of international political normativity, whereby the functions of assemblies reflect normative outcomes despite the absence of normative

Income Inequality and Global Political Polarization: The Economic Origin of Political Polarization in the World

Both income inequality and political polarization have increased dramatically in much of the world over the past few decades. One might wonder how these two phenomena correlate with each other. Are ... the globe? More importantly, how can improved equality in income distribution contribute to mitigate political polarization? Although the potential polarizing effects of income inequality is a growing

Bridging State and Nonprofit: Differentiated Embeddedness of Chinese Political Elites in Charitable Foundations

How are political elites embedded in both civil and political domains? I studied 246 Chinese political elites who also served on nonprofit foundations’ boards from 2011 to 2015 and conceptualized a ... School of Public Affairs RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, The University of Texas at Austin , 2315 Red River St, Austin, TX 78712 , USA How are political elites embedded in both civil

China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century

This paper provides empirical evidence on the incentive role of personnel control in China in the twenty-first century. Employing the city-level turnover data of political leaders in China between ... performance (peer effects) also contributes to the local political turnover, in particular within a province. Moreover, after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, a material change in

China’s Local Political Turnover in the Twenty-First Century

This paper provides empirical evidence on the incentive role of personnel control in China in the twenty-first century. Employing the city-level turnover data of political leaders in China between ... performance (peer effects) also contributes to the local political turnover, in particular within a province. Moreover, after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, a material change in

Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

by political scientists and psychologists. One known negative effect of conspiracy theories is the escalation toward political radicalism. This study goes beyond the exploration of mechanisms ... Psychology . 29 : 2221 - 2237 . 99. Sunstein , Cass R., and Adrian Vermeule . 2009 . Conspiracy theories: Causes and cures . The Journal of Political Philosophy 17 : 202 - 227 . 100. Sutton , Robbie M. , and

A Second Cold War? Explaining Changes in the American Discourse on China: Evidence from the Presidential Debates (1960–2020)

When and how do the American political elites react discursively to China as a rising power? Do they depict it as an economic or military risk? What role do discursive references to China play in the ... “yellow peril” rhetoric. Threat Perception; US-China Relations; Public Discourse; Political Elites Introduction The rise of China means that the future of global stability will depend on the politics of

Personal Networks and Grassroots Election Participation in China: Findings from the Chinese General Social Survey

Grassroots elections of rural village heads and urban community directors are an important public arena for social-political participation of Chinese citizens. Analyzing the Chinese General Social ... observation beyond China, the network effect on electoral politics is in fact a widespread phenomenon in social democratic countries. There, free-will citizens are under no political or ideological coercion to

Politics of Poverty Governance: an Introduction

Poverty alleviation and politics are interrelated in complex ways. Poverty governance is essentially a multi-faceted process of using political power, exercising political authority, mobilizing ... political authority, mobilizing political resources, running political institutions, and gaining political legitimacy. However, the approach of economics has long dominated current discussions in the

Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition

‑erduyn 0 1 0 Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University , Tianjin , China 1 International Political Economy, Department of International Relations and International Organization, University of ... exceptions, however, include two literatures that this article contributes to: International Political Economy (IPE) and scholarship at the finance-security nexus [ 32 ]. These literatures are starting to

Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?

and village leaders. These findings advance our understanding of hierarchical political trust in China. ... Republic of China 1 Department of Political Science, Amherst College , 74 College Street, 01002 Amherst, MA , US Can village leaders' performance impact villagers' trust in the central government? Using

The Creation of a Climate Club for a Sustainable Economic Future: The Role of International Economic Law Amidst Geopolitical Confrontation

regulatory trends in recent international trade agreements, namely climate change and sustainable energy. The section takes the novel approach of bringing together law, international political economy (IPE ... on national and international stages by the presence of strong government institutions and the political willingness of a nation to yield better outcomes for itself. With present-day predicaments, such

Arctic Conflicts & Russian Foreign Policy

In this paper, we analyze the intersections of legal and political dispute resolution methods in Arctic territorial disputes involving Russia and several Western governments, including Canada and the ... paper evaluates the tradeoffs between the legal and political constraints in these disputes between Russia and the West, and considers the possible methods of dispute settlement. In the paper, we suggest

Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context

What do studies of land rights in China contribute to the broader discipline of political science? First, the Chinese case challenges orthodox theories of secure, private property rights as a ... inequalities; research on the Chinese case in comparative context shows that exclusionary modes of land ownership and limits on full social and political citizenship are mutually reinforcing across all types of

Let’s Play God: Commodifying the Human Body

, Religion, Philosophy, and the Commodification of Human Body Parts, 55 DEPAUL L. REV. 875, 879 (2006). 132 Mark Schweda & Silke Schicktanz, The “Spare Parts Person”? Conceptions of the Human Body and Their ... Always Free” state. Upon holding that slaves were property, the Court reasoned that slaves were never conceptualized within the political community when the U.S. Constitution was drafted by the Framers

Catalytic Courts and Enforcement of Constitutional Education Funding Provisions

general theoretical framework of judicial interaction with the political branches developed by Katharine Young. We analyze how, in multi-year, multi-decision litigation, constitutional court judges in the ... —often against the backdrop of potential political retaliation. Focusing principally on Indonesia and the American states of Washington and Kansas, we found Young’s model helpful in describing how judges