... has created a corrupt scramble for funds. The scrambling for funds has manifested conflict between the national Chinese government and the local Chinese government. Therefore, United States-China relations are influenced by local politics in China. For example, where the national Chinese government has agreed to increase market access, various localities may devise means to protect their markets. Also, ... of these environmental and civil rights goals by providing tax rebates and other means for corporations to ease penalties from the national Chinese government. Localities have reduced ...

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... 1) Dahl defines "Democracy " as a political system which has the characteristics of being completely or almost completely responsive to all its citizens. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. So, polyarchies "are regimes that have been substantially popularized and liberalized, one which is ... of over 2,000 years of centralized authoritarian rule has buttressed the current regime. In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains t...

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... everyone is entitled to 'safe and healthy working conditions'. In addition, China's violations of human rights are heightened by its authoritarian regime. Under the Chinese Communist Party, independent labour unions are banned, and the government's official All-China Federation of trade Unions is the only legal representative of workers. This ban violates Article 8 of the ICESCR, which defends the ... UDHR (particularly Articles 19 and 20 which outline the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the freedom of peaceful assembly). Despite decades of economic development, Chin...

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... its broad sense). Stronger governments have had more choice than weaker governments concerning their response to global pressures for more international and less regulated economic activities. Even the weakest government, however, has had some room for manoeuvre. Additionally, there has been considerable variation between responses from the developed and developing worlds. This chapter introduces the predominant means ... in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. How...

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... different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. It will also demonstrate that legitimacy is ultimately derived from the consent of the governed and therefore that both democratic and non-democratic regimes ... that in authoritarian or one-party regimes in countries with ethnic tensions or histories of tribal rivalry3 - where the regime argues that strong government is necessary to maintain the integrity and functionality of the country - could justifiably ...

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... of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that ... ...

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... of sacred sites, and animistic nature of Buddhism, ensures that its adherents are able to see the innate value of the natural world, with one Chinese Environmental lawyer noting, "They are fish. They have lives."" The Atheist government has begun to recognize the value of Buddhism in protecting its nation, allowing the practice of a faith it not long ago condemned, demonstrating the ... ...

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