On Chao Cuo’s “New Legalism School” Ideology

"And They Were Silent": Reflections on Legalism

The curriculum ideology of the South African secondary school Biology

South Africa has had a number of curriculum reforms since 1994 which have been based on both political and education grounds. However, there is a dearth of knowledge about the nature of the envisioned graduates, especially with respect to social challenges. This can be addressed by exploring the curriculum ideology which outlines the vision of subjects within an education system by clarifying t...

Ideology, Partisanship, and the New Political Continuum

J ournalists, pollsters, and pundits use categories of political analysis that they do not always clearly define and whose meanings are ambiguous. To make sense of the political rhetoric even the informed public must struggle hard. A single news analysis in the New York Times used the following ambiguous expressions: "social conservatism," "economic conservatism," "pragmatic conservatives," "do...

Chao Gu and Randall Wright

We study models of credit with limited commitment, which implies endogenous borrowing constraints. We show that there are multiple stationary equilibria, as well as nonstationary equilibria, including some that display deterministic cyclic and chaotic dynamics. There are also stochastic (sunspot) equilibria, in which credit conditions change randomly over time, even though fundamentals are dete...

DEVELOPMENTALISM AND THE 'NEW SOCIETY' fHE REPRESSI:VE IDEOLOGY OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT*

When Martial Law was proclaimed on September 21, 1972 a11d a "New Society" brought officially to life, new social forces were set into motion and old social forces distilled into new forms. As some of the old forces died out, others merely split and still others. consolidated or merged with entirely new ones. New contradictions became evident. The problem of constructing adequate analytical dif...