Comparing territorial and functional constituency representations in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
Jinhyeok Jang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Much has been studied on political representation either in democratic countries or in competitive authoritarian regimes. However, few have attempted to compare across the two. This article fills this gap by comparing democratic and authoritarian representations within the same collective decision-making body: the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The original data derives from 2465 parliamentary questions made by 243 legislators serving in the last four legislative sessions from 1998 through 2012. The empirical analysis shows that the type of election variable does not have an impact on the volume of parliamentary questions but that it has a strong effect on the composition of parliamentary policy issues.

Political representation: the view from France

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Raf Geenens
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Claude Lefort ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The Way

It is now widely accepted that political representation is not merely a passive, ‘mirroring’ process, but that the process of political representation plays a constitutive role in the construction of citizens’ ideas and preferences. This chapter argues that French political philosophy points to an even more fundamental role for power and representation in the construction (or the ‘constitution’) of society and the self-image of its members. It focuses on a key argument of political theorist, Claude Lefort, who maintained that the specificity of a society is determined by the way power is organized and symbolically represented in that society. On this account, the importance of political representation goes far beyond the formation of opinions and the process of collective decision making. The organization and representation of power is instead seen as a key determinant of society’s self-understanding and of the way citizens within that society understand themselves and their mutual relations.

scholarly journals The Empirical Analysis to Enhance Taiwanese Satisfaction in Buying Vietnam coffee

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Thi Nham Le ◽  
Chia Nan Wang ◽  
Ying Fang Huang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

<span lang="EN-US">Vietnam coffee industry has been well-known over the world for many decades. However, Vietnam products do not meet Taiwan customers’ expectation, it has lead to urgent challenges for the industry. Therefore, the paper proposed the integrated approach by using exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis and regression analysis. The results of this study were used to <a name="OLE_LINK175"></a><a name="OLE_LINK174"></a>formulate and recommend on how to improve the products of Vietnam coffee by using SPSS statistics for analysis. The major findings of this paper was found out that there are six important determinants of Taiwanese decision-making in buying coffee. In order to enhance customer satisfaction with the coffee products from Vietnam, the companies need right strategies to improve these six groups of factors. The paper contributes meaningful and helpful results to the development of Vietnam coffee industry.</span>

Students in the Streets: Education and Nonviolent Protest

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirianne Dahlum
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Robust Evidence

This study investigates whether protest movements consisting of students and educated protesters are more likely to (a) use nonviolent rather than violent resistance and (b) successfully reach their goals. Extant literature suggests that education is negatively linked to violent conflict, and the commonly assumed mechanism is that educated groups are less likely to resort to violence. Moreover, many argue that education is a force for regime change and democratization, by inducing successful protest movements. This article is the first to systematically test implications of these mechanisms at the protest level. The empirical analysis builds on original data on the educational background of participants in all protest campaigns aiming for regime change from 1900 to 2006 identified in the Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes Dataset 1.0. I find robust evidence that protest movements with a high degree of involvement by students and graduates are more likely to turn nonviolent. Moreover, there is some (although weaker) evidence that these movements are more likely to achieve their goals, but only due to their nonviolent dispositions. This adds to the literature explaining why some movements resort to nonviolence (and succeed), by establishing that the identity and socioeconomic background of protesters matter.

How could Expert Involvement Compensate for an Incomplete Capability of Legitimization through Democratic Representation? Debating the Grounds for Political Legitimacy in the EU

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 275-299
Author(s):  
Lena Caspers ◽  
Urban Strandberg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Democratic Representation ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Eu

This article contributes to the scholarly as well as societal decades-long debate on the state of democracy in the EU. The objective is to problematize, discuss, and come up with constructive ideas on the role of expert groups in the processes of legitimization of decision-making within the EU. The analysis is guided by a general research question: how could expert involvement compensate for an incomplete capability of legitimization through democratic representation? The empirical analysis of expert influence in decision-making is guided by a new modelling of the so-called Epistemic Community approach. The case chosen to illustrate the model is the authorization process of the emergency contraceptive ellaOne, within the institutional setting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) at the European Medicines Agency. The empirical material consists of interviews with eight members of the CHMP. To guide the empirical analysis the paper introduces a two-dimensional model of the epistemic community approach, which distinguishes between the institutional preconditions and the ideational motivations of expert groups. The results indicate that the experts within the CHMP had an influence on the policy-making process thanks to favourable institutional preconditions as well as ideational motivations of the experts themselves. Our conclusion is that there is a need for ‘institutional engineering’ as regards the involvement of experts in decision-making, to sustain the legitimacy of expert involvement, and level out the institutional conditions for experts’ influence on policy-making within the EU.

scholarly journals Cultural Homelessness, Social Dislocation and Psychosocial Harms: An Overview of Social Mobility in Hong Kong and Mainland China

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jason Hung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Cultural Homelessness

In order to facilitate collective decision making and breed productivity, it is important to ensure societies operate in a fair and just manner. Chinese literature has a propensity of relying on sociological theories from the modern West, prompting the review essay to address theories of capital, social mobility, cultural preferences and otherwise based on leading western literature. This review essay addresses how an increase in social mobility of those from lower social origins results in cultural homelessness and social dislocation, in relations to the experiences of psychosocial harms. As per western studies, the review essay examines the extent of cultural homelessness, social dislocation and psychosocial harms faced by upwardly mobilising cohorts in Hong Kong and China. To conclude, the essay argues upwardly mobilising cohorts in Hong Kong and China are likely to experience cultural homelessness, and the corresponding cohorts in China face salient problems of social dislocation. The encounters of cultural and social dilemmas are associated with the experiences of psychosocial harms for both populations.

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