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Blood & Treasure: authoritarian deliberation
Modern authoritarianism is a basically centrist proposition; bound up with and justified by a combination of patriotism and performance legitimacy rather than ideology.
Blood & Treasure: knowledge problem
Data is magic to governments and has been since the Romans used censuses to establish accurate tax rolls, predict revenue, and borrow accordingly.
Education on the Agenda for Chinese Reform - China Journal - WSJ
education was the subject of 657 proposals from delegates to the CPPCC, edging out other key issues such as heathcare and unemployment
The China Beat: Can China Go High-Tech When Exports Slump?
In China, as in other developing countries, the question is never whether the state should play a role in technological development, but how
The Prospects for Cyberocracy « iRevolution
“no administrative system is capable of representing [or monitoring] every existing social community except through a heroic and greatly schematized process of abstraction and simplification.”
Hit & Run > Quote of the Month (So Far) - Reason Magazine
"I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do." - Sen. Kit Bond
A Winter of Hope and a Spring of Despair
In March 1989, an e-mail message began circulating among Chinese students at American universities. "Dear Friend," it began, "I am sorry to have bothered you by e-mail."
An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics
The principal subject of Kafka's novels is not the mess of bureaucracy as such but rather alienation in the age of office jobs, assembly lines and advanced nation-states.
Electronic Research Collections (ERC)
electronically archived information products produced by State Department from 1990 to 1997
Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: The ramifications of the information behaviours of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
This paper attempts to build bridges between two sets of theoretical concepts related to information behaviour: the macro-level concepts of Jürgen Habermas related to lifeworlds and the micro-level concepts of Elfreda Chatman related to small worlds.
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Writing and Authority in Early China - Google Book Search
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority.
Reason Magazine - The Paranoid Style Is American Politics
"they inhabit a cosmos of endless invisible war, in which wizards are engaged in fending off the attacks of insane, predatory gods and all deaths are caused by spiritual murder and have to be avenged by the magical massacre of whole (distant, unknown) communities." Malkin, or Piaroa Indians?
Iran's inner and outer circles of influence and power - Los Angeles Times
"There are so many centers of power," said a Western diplomat in Tehran "The system was designed to not let anyone be in total control." - Ed. Iran's overabundance of checks and balances.
How America Lost the War on Drugs : Rolling Stone
Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese pharmaceutical executive whose house Mexican police raided, suspecting him of diverting meth components from China for illegal use ... a harbinger of the next frontier in the War on Drugs.
News From Nowhere
M.I.A. has said that hip-hop--the arts movement that grew from the find-and-use, cut-and-paste pastimes of socially and politically abandoned city kids--made her feel connected to England and the wider world for the first time.
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