(China's Long-Term Economic Reform: Perspectives and Implications)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pyeong Seob Yang ◽  
Su Yeob Na ◽  
Soojoong Nam ◽  
Sang Hun Lee ◽  
Ho Lim Yoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform

The Urban Network and Economic Reform in Vietnam

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 793-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Opening Up

Since the mid-1970s, Vietnam experienced a period of transition to socialism, before bringing in economic reforms which led to the gradual dismantling of the subsidised system of planning and the opening up of the country to the global capitalist economy. Economic reform and renovation has important implications for the urban areas of Vietnam. The emergence of markets and the abandonment of many restrictions on travel resulted in a freeing up of the urbanisation process during the 1980s and early 1990s. These processes are considered, and the implications for Vietnam's largest urban area, Ho Chi Minh City, are examined. The likely impact of Vietnam's long-term socioeconomic strategy on the urban network in the remainder of the decade is considered.

Chipping Away at the State: Workers' Resistance and the Demise of East Germany

1996 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kopstein
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Labor Discipline ◽  
East German ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Everyday Resistance ◽  
State Archives

This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to immobilize the regime through nonpolitical acts of everyday resistance. This resistance, coupled with the rare act of political protest, rendered ineffective the conventional methods of labor discipline and undermined any hope of meaningful economic reform. The second hypothesis concerns the motivation for working-class behavior. Two models of social action have dominated studies of subalterns: rational choice and moral economy. The models are evaluated against the archival record. While the evidence is not overwhelmingly in favor of either model, the moral economy approach provides a better account of the sporadic acts of rebellion and the myriad acts of everyday resistance.

scholarly journals Daoism as the Philosophic Foundation of Chinese Economic Reform: a Conjecture

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J Romar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
Tao Te Ching ◽  
Wu Wei ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Term Objective

The reforms of Deng Xiaoping and the opening of China in the 1970s were predicated on something called “socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. Deng never explained its meaning in detail. This paper offers a conjecture suggesting that Daoism is the philosophical foundation of Chinese economic reform. Daoism is eminently Chinese and through the concepts of wu wei, yin/yang, qi and others from The Tao Te Ching, the Zhuangzi, and Pheasant Cap Master it offers the flexibility to organize markets within the Chinese context. The paper suggests how a Daoist philosophic foundation supports China’s rise both economically and politically. It concludes with the observation that China’s long term objective may be something like Zhuangzi’s and Pheasant Cap Master’s unity and that the West’s “end of history” may have past while the Chinese may have just begun.(B)y Marxism we mean Marxism that is integrated with Chinese conditions, and by socialism we mean a socialism that is tailored to Chinese conditions and has a specifically Chinese character….Socialism means eliminating poverty. Pauperism is not socialism, still less communism (Deng Xiaoping, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics [1]).…China’s rise is not the rise of an ordinary state, but the rise of a country, sui generis, a civilizational state, a new model of development and a new political discourse which questions many of the Western assumptions about democracy, good governance and human rights, and all this may usher in a wave of change unprecedented in human history. Zhang Weiwei, The China Wave [2]).

Liberal Elites, Socialist Masses, and Problems of Russian Democracy

1999 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith S. Kullberg ◽  
William Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
East European ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Public Protest ◽  
Democratic Change

Strong showings by antireform parties in elections in Russia and other East European nations in the early and mid-1990s raised concerns about the long-term prospects for democracy in the region. Some interpret these votes as expressions of public protest over the costs of economic reform, while others argue that they reflected public skepticism of the liberalism of reformist elites. The authors present evidence from parallel elite/mass surveys conducted in Russia in 1992–93 and 1995 of a considerable gap between elite and mass worldviews. They argue that variation in ideological orientations—both between elite and mass and within the mass public—is largely a function of the postcommunist structure of economic opportunity. Analysis of the survey data provides substantial support for the effects of economic opportunity structure on individual ideological orientation and system preference. Thus, what accounts for the Russian elite's embrace of liberalism and its nonacceptance by portions of the Russian mass public is not simply economic decline but the differential impact of restructuring on long-term material prospects. The findings suggest that students of democratic change should focus more fully on the structural factors that constrain what is politically possible.

Discourses of Case Management: A Labour Market Program Analysis

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Di Gursansky ◽  
Rosemary Kennedy ◽  
Di Gursansky ◽  
Rosemary Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Program Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Insight Into

This paper outlines the origins of case management and the diverse meanings of the term. Through illustrations from two Australian policy examples of long-term unemployment and homelessness, it is argued that case management is now often a black box approach to service delivery, underpinned by an economic reform agenda. Analysis of the discourse associated with contemporary policy developments allows insight into the ways in which case management redefines descriptions of service delivery in the human services. It is argued that the rhetoric of case management may not have changed much over time but the motivation behind it may have, and its conceptualisation and theoretical development have not kept pace with practice. The paper concludes with adoption and implementation guidelines for case management.

scholarly journals Investigating and addressing the immediate and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with substance use disorders: a scoping review and evidence map protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. e045946
Author(s):  
Leen Naji ◽  
Brittany Dennis ◽  
Rebecca L Morgan ◽  
Nitika Sanger ◽  
Andrew Worster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Evidence Map ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
High Risk Populations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Essential Service

IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has driven unprecedented social and economic reform in efforts to curb the impact of disease. Governments worldwide have legislated non-essential service shutdowns and adapted essential service provision in order to minimise face-to-face contact. We anticipate major consequences resulting from such policies, with marginalised populations expected to bear the greatest burden of such measures, especially those with substance use disorders (SUDs).Methods and analysisWe aim to conduct (1) a scoping review to summarise the available evidence evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with SUDs, and (2) an evidence map to visually plot and categorise the current available evidence evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on patients with SUDs to identify gaps in addressing high-risk populations.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval is not required for this scoping review as we plan to review publicly available data. This is part of a multistep project, whereby we intend to use the findings generated from this review in combination with data from an ongoing prospective cohort study our team is leading, encompassing over 2000 patients with SUDs receiving medication-assisted therapy in Ontario prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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