This article examines the practices, policies and politics of Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) governance entertainment celebrities from 2005 to 2020. We identify critically analyse four principle governing approaches with related examples: ‘banning celebrities’, ‘governing through professional associations, laws notices’, ‘platform governance’ ‘co-opting stars’. argue that celebrity should be...

The twentieth century is one of the most interesting time frames in human history. Two world wars with devastating results, communist ideology coming to power many countries, astonishing scientific and technological developments mark some features this century. All these changess inevitably affected international relations politics. United States America (USA) getting stronger over time, emerge...

The social pedagogy is an important, specific part of the Polish pedagogy, with a unique character – since it began to emerge at end 19th century in lands. Although developed very dynamically interwar period, both theoretically and institutionally terms practical activities, after 1945 experienced some great difficulties returning normal functioning scientific world, as did all sciences, consid...

Studies on the changing labor relations in post-communist countries have flourished in recent years, such that a review and analysis of what has been reported is overdue. Yet, interestingly, these studies have not reached a consensus on what they seek to explain. Indeed, some of the main questions remain under contention. First, is labor in post-communist societies weak, or (in at least some co...

Is government ideology important for fiscal policy? I study this question with data from all German States over the period 1975-2005. To identify the effect of ideology, I rely on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find that left-wing state governments spend more than state governments with right-wing and mixed ideology. Deficits of left-wing governments are larger than those of right-w...

This paper analyzes the founding rates of two types of Jewish agricultural cooperatives, the moshav and the kibbutz, to show how political ideology intersects with resource requirements to produce competition and mutualism between organizations. These two populations, which share ideology and a resource base, competed with each other. They both enjoyed mutualism with the population of credit co...

This essay examines personal narratives and gender-sensitive fictional representations of the Partition between India and Pakistan to contribute to a counterhistory that takes centrally into account the ways in which nation formation was written on the bodies of women. The juxtaposition of my mother’s stories, the oral histories gathered by feminist historiographers, and critical analyses of Pa...

BACKGROUND Studies on political ideology and health have found associations between individual ideology and health as well as between ecological measures of political ideology and health. Individual ideology and aggregate measures such as political regimes, however, were never examined simultaneously. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using adjusted logistic multilevel models to analyze data on ...

romania was occupied by the soviet army in 1944 and the military seizure continued until 1958. constant interference and constraints imposed by the russian government upon romania, during this time, resulted in formation and establishment of a communist institution in the country. the communist reign in romania lasted forty four years from 1945 to 1989. the hostility of the communist government...