This week, a show taped live at Syracuse University on September 30 with Associate Professor Dimitar Gueorguiev, author of the excellent Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China.
Very interesting conversation with a very interesting guest. Hadn’t heard of him before. Will need to look into him more.
To that point about people who’re less satisfied with/confident in their government also being more hawkish. Does the data tease apart why they’re not confident in the first place?
I have in my years in China met a good number of people who expressed to me their dissatisfaction with their government for the exact reason that they felt their government wasn’t hawkish enough on the USA.
I wonder if that’s part of the explanation for this curious piece of data.
Also: is there any data on how many 老百姓 participate in these anonymous public policy opinion collection exercises? I do not dismiss the value or the genuineness of these, at all. It’s just that I’ve never met a single person who has participated. A bit like in the West where you hear about opinion poll after opinion poll but nobody seems to know anyone who’s ever actually been part of one 😊
Very interesting conversation with a very interesting guest. Hadn’t heard of him before. Will need to look into him more.
To that point about people who’re less satisfied with/confident in their government also being more hawkish. Does the data tease apart why they’re not confident in the first place?
I have in my years in China met a good number of people who expressed to me their dissatisfaction with their government for the exact reason that they felt their government wasn’t hawkish enough on the USA.
I wonder if that’s part of the explanation for this curious piece of data.
Also: is there any data on how many 老百姓 participate in these anonymous public policy opinion collection exercises? I do not dismiss the value or the genuineness of these, at all. It’s just that I’ve never met a single person who has participated. A bit like in the West where you hear about opinion poll after opinion poll but nobody seems to know anyone who’s ever actually been part of one 😊