US-China Economic Confrontation: Ideology, Chronology, Meaning

Measuring District-Level Economic and Moral Ideology

Due to insufficient sample sizes in national surveys, strikingly little is known about issue preferences at the level of Congressional districts in the United States, and existing studies focus only on a single issue dimension. This paper takes a first step toward filling this gap by developing a hierarchical Bayesian model to combine survey and census data to estimate the median of each congre...

The Communist Party of China and Ideology

Consumer Culture Theory: Ideology, Mythology and Meaning in Technology Consumption

Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) through which cultural meanings become granted to or denied to technological innovations, thus shaping the value of technologies as cultural resources sustaining consumer ident...

The Meaning of Economic Development

The paper compares perspectives on the meaning of development in the late 1970s and early 1980s to the contemporary period, with a focus on the works of Dudley Seers and Amartya Sen. Both men were critical of the development literature of their times. Seers was especially critical of neoclassicism’s universal claims and economic growth as the prime objective. For Sen, development involves reduc...

Do two parties represent the US? Clustering analysis of US public ideology survey

Recent surveys have shown that an increasing portion of the US public believes the two major US parties inadequately represent the US public opinion, and think additional parties are needed [1]. However, there are high barriers for third parties in political elections. In this paper, we aim to address two questions: “How well do the two major US parties represent the public’s ideology?” and “Do...