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Digital Revolution? The increasing impact of Internet on China politics

  • Coutaz, Gregory
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 2012
  • In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Internet's role in aiding dramatic political transformation has come to the fore. Throughout the Middle East, protestors have employed Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other popular websites to organize and spread news at home and to the outside world. Chinese authorities have been increasingly nervous about the Arab uprisings, and fear that similar events will inspire unrest in China. The new information and communication technologies make it possible for social movements to initiate novel forms of collective actions. The Internet provides new opportunities for political liberalization. In Chinese society, citizens can now participate in politics uninvited. With each passing day, the online community gets stronger. The digital revolution has the potential for broadening democratic principles and could bring democracy to the collective Chinese mind.

Institutional political dynamics: political cycles between the liberal and the conservative

  • Kim, Dong-Hwan;Saeed, Khalid
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.5-22
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    • 2012
  • Although many system dynamists point out the close relationship between institutional economics and system dynamics, the relationship between institutional political theory and system dynamics approach is not explicitly appreciated yet. We developed a system dynamics model to investigate theoretical propositions of institutional politics. Our system dynamics model showed how the endogenous mechanism can explain the political changes as well as orders. Although simple in the causal structure, our model could show a complex behavior of political competition. Several simulation results imply that some unexpected changes in election and power competition may come from the endogenous system rather than from exogenous factors such as economic and environmental shocks.

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The Politics of Race in the U.S. Census 2000 (미국의 2000년 인구총조사에 관련된 쟁점)

  • 신의항;신택진;임민;정지욱
    • Proceedings of the Korean Association for Survey Research Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.27-59
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    • 2001
  • The population enumeration data from the decennial U.S. census are used in the apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and federal revenue sharing. The primary purpose of this study is to examine the various issues about the U.S. Census 2000. More specifically, this paper analyzes the sociopolitical implications of the racial and ethnic variations in net undercount rate in the census. In addition, we investigate the politics of race and ethnicity centering the census questions on race and use of sampling for adjustment of the enumeration data.

The Politics of Race in the U.S. Census 2000 (미국의 2000년 인구총조사에 관련된 쟁점)

  • Shin, Eui-Hang;Shin, Taek-Jin;Im, Min;Jung, Ji-Wook
    • Survey Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.27-59
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    • 2001
  • The population enumeration data from the decennial U.S. census are used in the apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and federal revenue sharing. The primary purpose of this study is to examine the various issues about the U.S. Census 2000. More specifically, this paper analyzes the sociopolitical implications of the racial and ethnic variations in net undercount rate in the census. In addition. we investigate the politics of race and ethnicity centering the census questions on race and use of sampling for adjustment of the enumeration data.

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The Promotion of Conversion to Organic Farming (친환경유기농업의 전환촉진 방안)

  • Yoo, Duck-Ki
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2007
  • It is hypothesized that changing from conventional to organic production is an investment because specific capital items are necessary for such a step. It is further hypothesized that in view of the limited experience and the very restricted availability of extension materials such investment is particularly prone to risk. The conversion to organic farming has proven to be an economically interesting alternative for a large portion of the converted farms in the past. This contribution will consider the question of which factors influence the success of organic farming. A discussion of the most important consequences for politics and agricultural practice conclude this paper, drawn on the important factors identified in the study.

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A Study on Clothing Purchasing Behavior and Value of College Students (대학생의 가치관과 의복구매행동에 관한 연구)

  • 한명숙;정미혜
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.602-610
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    • 2000
  • The purposes of this study was to examine the college students'value and the status of their clothing purchasing behavior, and to compare the correlation between both of them. The questions were centered on 511 students who are attending the universities in Seoul. The results of this study were as follows. First, most students have higher value on politics, economy, and theory in the order listed. Male-students were interested in theory, while female-students were more interested in politics. Second, when they purchase their clothes, the factor of decision was based on design and their observation was another important factor. As for selecting shops, they considered the product as the most important factor and then the service & transportation. Third, I inspected the correlation between their value & the status of their clothing purchasing behavior. The students with lower theoretical value considered the quality as a purchasing factor, and the service as a purchasing factor, common shop as a purchasing shop, adn the convenient transportation system as a factor of selecting a shop.

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A Study on the Development of Environmental Movement of the Rep. of Korea (韓國 環境運動의 발전에 關한 一考)

  • Kim, Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2003
  • This research attempts to describe and explain the development of Korean environmental movement. It finds that the emergence of Korean environmental movement was constrained by the authoritarian nature of Korean politics. In 1970s, environmental movements were primitive and were not organized ones. With the wake of democratization in the 1980s, Korean environmental movement began to get some momentum. And in the 1990s, environmental movement to save clean water has achieved some success in certain areas. However, the emphasis on the growth of local economy in the age of local autonomy system has brought heavy degradation of local environment. The coming of the phenomena of Globalization and Cyber-Age has brought positive effects on Korean environmental movement.

A Study on Character and Limitation in Populism (포퓰리즘 정당의 성격과 한계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Chul
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2017
  • This paper focus on universal values and characteristics of populist parties of the Western Europe. Moreover, the causes of the European populist parties successful political activities in the European society, in which democracy is relatively established, quite stably, examined as well. Populist political activities based on simple speech are evidently unfair political actions mobilizing the unreasonable populace. populist politics is difficult to coexist with the modern Western European democracy.