{"title":"Mini-publics and Political Meritocracy: Towards a New China Model","authors":"Mathis Bitton","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00228-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00228-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75298572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China and Lithium Geopolitics in a Changing Global Market.","authors":"Suleyman Orhun Altiparmak","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00227-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41111-022-00227-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The energy market is shifting from fossil fuels to renewables. This transition is creating new geopolitical dynamics. In the past, traditional energy geopolitics focused on the concentrated distribution of fossil fuel resources and the conflicts and dependencies that this created. In contrast, the 'new' renewable energy geopolitics emphasises the dispersed distribution or decentralisation of production capacity and the independence of states this generates. However, the market for lithium, which is essential to renewable energy storage through being a key component of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, does not entirely fit theoretical conceptions of the renewable energy market's dynamics. By focusing on China as a critical case, this article shows that lithium geopolitics has potentially created new (inter)dependencies and opportunities for conflicts, while also paradoxically enhancing state interindependence in renewable technology energy production. Thus, this hybrid form of energy geopolitics necessitates revising conventional energy security explanations to match these new market conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403979/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80241117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The China–US Great Power Rivalry and the New Anarchy","authors":"Serafettin Yilmaz, Tongwen Sun","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00224-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00224-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"37 1","pages":"507 - 526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85026795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bottom of the Heart of the Property Builder: Evidence from Online Messages of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers","authors":"Chen Zhang, Biao Ma, Yujie Gan, Hao Xu","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00222-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00222-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77653924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forging a New Security Order in Eurasia: China, the SCO, and the Impacts on Regional Governance","authors":"Jingdong Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00223-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00223-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"422 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87203549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can the Regime Type (Democracy versus Autocracy) Explain the COVID-19 Recovery Rates?","authors":"Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00218-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41111-022-00218-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 is an example of worldwide and unanticipated global crisis. This study provides an example of crisis management in different countries and regime types. Previous studies provide evidence supporting reduced infant mortality as well as increased life expectancy with higher levels of democracy. These findings lead to the conventional wisdom that democracies provide conditions that promote better health for their citizens. The current study seeks to investigate health-democracy relationship in the context of recovery from COVID-19 disease. Unlike the conventional wisdom and based on 169 countries and regions around the world, for which information regarding accumulated recovery rates from coronavirus and Freedom House measures of democracy are available, findings suggest better projected prospects of recovery from COVID-19 disease in more \"autocratic\" countries. These findings may be explained on the grounds of (1) inefficient law enforcement in more democratic countries and (2) stronger autoimmune response (a cytokine storm, associated with COVID-19 severity) in Western countries due to excessive hygienic environmental conditions and, consequently, lack of exposure to different pathogens.</p>","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9181934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90463176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dynamics of Anti-Americanism Among Educated Youth in Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad Ismail, Azhar Shah, M. Idrees","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00219-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00219-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89972330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Q Turcsanyi, Kamil Liškutin, Michal Mochtak
{"title":"Diffusion of Influence? Detecting China's Footprint in Foreign Policies of Other Countries.","authors":"Richard Q Turcsanyi, Kamil Liškutin, Michal Mochtak","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Chinese influence\" has become a hot topic among politicians, media, and pundits. Academic studies dealing with the subject, however, generally take a much more cautious position. This paper suggests an innovative approach of studying political influence using data from the UN General Assembly voting and speech records. Utilizing the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP), we show how to estimate, quantify, and visualise foreign policy positions using raw textual data. In Europe, it has been argued that China's growing presence and activity in Central and Eastern European states (CEE) undermines \"European unity\" as the region allegedly starts shifting towards Beijing. We adopt the CEE region as a case study of China's potential influence and highlight the positioning of CEE countries towards China, Germany, and the U.S. by visualizing the proximities among them over time. We find no evidence that the CEE countries are strategically pivoting towards China. We have controlled for known positions and trends of other countries from elsewhere in the world to strengthen the case for our methodological approach.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120347/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72608913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}