Revisiting Chinese Political Culture: The Historical Politics Approach

memory politics: an introduction to a new political and historical approach

memory politics as a field is an outcome of representation crisis in social sciences. but this field has its own weaknesses that prevent presenting a coherent research program. eliminating theory and conceptual defects of the field and increasing its objects are the most strategies to improve it to a coherent research program. but how someone can eliminate its current conceptual defects? in thi...

Revisiting the politics of dangerousness.

Just over a quarter century ago, Michael Petrunik, Senior Research Officer in the Research Division of the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, wrote an article entitled “The Politics of Dangerousness.” The specific impetus for Petrunik’s paper was the then recently enacted 1977 Canadian Dangerous Offender Legislation. He sought to explain the political underpinnings of recent legal dev...

FIELD STATEMENT POLITICS DEPARTMENT: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A CULTURAL POLITICS CRITIQUE INTRODUCTION APPROACHES Developmentalism Crisis in Modernization Dependency New Institutionalism Rational Choice Cultural Politics Cultural political analysis of the formal political realm Democracy POLITICAL CULTURE

Explicating Political Hazards and Safeguards: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach

We apply the logical of comparative institutional analysis to the question of the governance of the relationship between private investors and the government. We consider two strategies that investors may follow: lobbying for the creation of a specialized political governance structure or the reliance on more general political mechanisms to influence policy in that sector on an ongoing basis. W...

Translating Chinese Political Discourse: a Functional-cognitive Approach to English Translations of Chinese Political Speeches

This thesis presents a theoretical attempt to look into the process of political translation in China and the textual products from a functional-cognitive perspective by combining the CDA models of Fairclough and van Dijk. The functional linguistic parameters parallel to Fairclough’s functional forms of textual analysis serve as a micro-level device for the close examination of texts. At the ma...