Top‐Down vs. Bottom‐Up: The Long‐Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values This paper studies the long‐term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

A major goal of ideological education in China is to promote loyalty to the party-state and to instill atheism among the people. How effective is this ideological education? This article examines the relationship between education and trust in government and trust in religion using data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey. We find that education is negatively associated with trust in go...

As the Chinese Communist Party prepares for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening policy, China’s state ideology is confronted with challenges from various schools of thought. One of them is the “New Left.” The New Left is characterised by an emphasis on the state power to redress the problems of injustice and other negative effects of privatisation, marketisation an...