Focuses on the hierarchy of power in Chinese politics and government. Complexity of the exercise of power in China; Communist Party and the State Council as two major sources of political authority; Other influential agencies; China's most powerful politicians.EBSCO_AspAsiaweek
It would be painful to even imagine the music industry without the contributions of women, many of whom have long been subjected to systemic sexism, double standards, subtle dismissing, and blatant injustices throughout their careers in music. This inequality has been brought to the spotlight in ...
If senior people are not authentic and don’t have a sense of purpose that can help early tenured people see, “Why am I working so hard?” those colleagues won’t bring their best to work and aren’t going to do what you’re asking them to do. ...
It is based on a strong contrast between the theocratic and autocratic regimes of the stationary East and the governments of Europe, which are differentiated by their conception of free will and by the sense of duty to fellow citizens.Footnote64 Curtis returns to this notion after outlining the...
This leads to Gabe finding a large investment company to provide funding — which sounds great in theory, until Cate realizes that she has to give up some of her power. She's then faced with the struggle of changing her family's traditional business for the sake of keeping it alive. ...
The principle of autocracy must remain sacred; such was the view not only of bureaucrats but also of men such as Nikolay Milyutin and Yury Samarin, both of whom rested their hopes for the progressive reforms they so ardently desired on the unfettered power of the emperor. Their attitude was...
What is the South African government providing, and to whom? What is the Fed? What does it do, and who owns it? Which religion is most popular in governments with free capitalism? Whose interests should be the paramount concern of government trade po...
Analysis of government policy related to place-based approaches is important for a range of reasons. First, there are concerns that the use of the termplace-basedapproachmay become a “catchall” used by governments to describe ‘an array of potentially inconsistent policy agendas’ that do not...
The women usually choose their clients beforehand, but in highly exceptional circumstances they can accept clients they do not have much trust in—who are drunk or on drugs, or whose behavior is unpleasant. During the lockdown and the first few months afterward, that choice of clients was redu...
The men who are entrusted with the direction of public affairs in the United States are frequently inferior, both in point of capacity and of morality, to those whom aristocratic institutions would raise to power. But their interest is identified and confounded with that of the majority of their...