ABSTRACTS
2022-10-21
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:Low-income groups are vulnerable in society and sometimes require assistance and guarantees if they are to achieve common prosperity. Exploring how to nudge such groups towards this goal is gradually becoming a topic of great interest. This paper focuses on the formulation of an action plan for this work. The value objectives, realization paths, and key mechanisms from the perspective of the least advantaged should always be considered. Value objectives should be based on the theories of fairness and justice, social cooperation, and endogenous power for low-income groups. In terms of promoting low-income groups, this paper summarizes three development paths: the rich push those who become rich later, urban-rural integration, and “assistance+charity”. In terms of promoting the policy paths of low-income groups, this paper gives full play to the supporting role of basic public services for low-income groups; the establishment of policy paths that focus on increasing income through employment; and, the improvement of the comprehensive security policy path with poverty relief as the core. To do this, four key mechanisms need to be put in place.
: common prosperity; low-income groups; the least advantaged
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: Social participation is an important action plan that both promotes mental health among the elderly and active aging. Participation levels of the elderly in personal and family life form differentiated patterns of social participation. Based on the perspective of personal-family balance, this study used latent structure analysis of data from the 2015 and 2018 “China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey” to classify four types of social participation patterns among the elderly: individual-centered, family-centered, balanced, and low-participated. The impact of these patterns on the mental health of the elderly was then analyzed through a lagged regression model. This study finds that: (1) compared with low-participated and family-centered, individual-centered can significantly reduce the degree of depression in the elderly; but this effect is not enough to affect the likelihood of suffering from depression. (2) The individual-centered type has a more significant effect on relieving depression among the rural elderly, and the family-centered urban elderly are more likely to fall into depression than the low-participated. (3) As against the low-participated elderly, the individual-centered pattern significantly reduces the degree of depression among the middle-aged elderly, but the family-centered and balanced young elderly show a higher probability of depression. Studying the impact of social participation patterns on the mental health of the elderly and exploring patterns with more health-improving effects can inform policy practices for the social participation of the elderly and proactively respond to the aging of the population.
: social participation patterns; the elderly; mental health; personal-family balance
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:In the digital age, improving digital inclusion and social capital is a critical approach to protecting the mental health of older adults and achieving active aging. Data was obtained from the 2018 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS) and analyzed by the linear regression model, instrumental variable analysis, and propensity score matching. This study finds that (1) digital inclusion has a positive effect on the mental health of older adults; (2) social capital is a significant mediator between digital inclusion and the mental health of older adults; (3) there are urban-rural differences in the impact of digital inclusion on the mental health of older adults. The impact of digital inclusion on mental health is stronger for older adults with rural household registration compared to those with urban household registration. Digital access barriers and digital skill barriers for older adults must be reduced. And, a digitally inclusive society must be built to improve the social capital and promote the mental well-being of older Chinese adults.
:digital inclusion; social capital; mental health; older adults
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:The welfare regime provides a logical basis for the life-cycle’s operation and its policies. From a process perspective, the construction of welfare policy in East Asian countries could be divided into three stages:Formation,Adaptation,and outward-Promotion.This study explores the homogeneity and differences in the East Asian welfare regime by comparing the construction of the social assistance systems in China and South Korea. China’s formation of its Basic Livelihood Security (BLS) program was in batches, with political competition between regional governments. South Korea’s National Basic Livelihood Security (NBLSS) program was updated through a one-step process under the central government’s authority. To adapt to the economic and societal needs, BLS and NBLSS turned to updating the connotation or denotation of poverty governance, respectively. Then, BLS and NBLSS changed the policy environment through different strategies, challenging the Leviathan-styled welfare delivery and then setting up a dynamically balanced interaction between the policy network and the policy instrument by promoting the familism traditions and shaping an ordered society. In conclusion, the process of constructing the social assistance system in China and Korea indicates a turn in East Asian countries towards productivism and familism. Yet, the fragmentation in the East Asian welfare regime caused by their different developmental strategies could exist for a long time to come.
: East Asian Welfare Regime; policy network; Chinese Basic Livelihood Security; Korean National Basic Livelihood Security; international comparison
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:The continuous use of mobile government is related to efficiency in digital governance and is thereby a new way to observe government governance in the Internet era. However, low utilization rates for mobile government affairs remain a problem, and strong emotional differences generally exist in the evaluation of government affairs APPs. Based on the theory of emotional cognitive evaluation, we constructed a model of the continuous user that is driven by emotional cognition. With data from a questionnaire survey, the structural equation and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method were used to explore the role of user cognitive factors in the steady use of mobile government. As the results show, intrinsic cognitive load, cognitive demand, and cognitive trust influence the continuous use of mobile government through the emotional change of satisfaction; extrinsic cognitive load has a direct effect on continuous use behavior; cognitive trust influences the perception of the relative advantage of mobile government users and is the core condition to motivating continuous use. The results also suggest that in addition to optimizing the mobile government system, the government should consider the external aspects of mobile government development including publicity and training, the level of intelligent services, and the management capability of related technical aspects. These findings expand the application of emotional cognition evaluation theory in the field of mobile government affairs and suggest pathways to strengthen the continuous use, and improve the work, of mobile government affairs.
:mobile government; continuous use; cognitive theory of emotion; government APP’s users
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: Village regulations and non-governmental agreements provide the foundation for village governance. The different versions of these texts faithfully record the historical pathway of evolving governance. This paper traces rural governance changes over the past 30 years by analyzing the text of the tenth edition of village regulations and civil contracts in Quzhou City’s Shangyang Village in Zhejiang province. From its evolution, function, and expression, the text’s many revisions were oriented to problems and policies, co-governance and sharing, and restricting the authority within the village. The governance issues have gradually shifted over time, from integrative control, obligations, holistic interests, and village identity to rights, subjects, and equality; from tools to the governance track and the integration of tools, rights and values. This evolution of village governance is nearly identical to what most villages in China have experienced. In this sense, Shangyang Village is a window into the general manifestation of rural society today.
: village regulations and non-governmental agreement; text; rural governance; evolution
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: Ecological security, though a relatively new factor, is an important part of national security. It is also an important window into the complex connection between ecosystem integrity and sustainable human survival as well as an important prerequisite and foundation for other security areas. With rapid industrialization and urbanization, multiple risks caused by ecological degradation, climate warming, soil pollution, and nuclear and radiation pollution have challenged ecological security. In the overall national security system, ecological security is the embodiment of humanistic politics and has been given more political attention. The uncertain risks in ecological security have created a “bottom-line” governance that underlies ecological security. Besides strengthening this bottom-line, we should also develop a higher-level thinking of leadership. This includes prioritizing ecological security over other security areas and preventing problems before they occur. Before ecological security can evolve from its “basic” to its “leading” form, we must first examine macro-structural factors such as the relationship between states, between the central and local governments, and between the state and society. We must also be alert to ecological colonialism, promote the normalization and localization of central environmental supervision, and develop authoritarian environmental democracy.
: overall national security concept; ecological security; risk perception; morphological evolution; systematic governance
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: The Communist Party of China (CPC) can unite and lead the Chinese people to realize the historic leap from standing up to becoming rich and then to becoming strong. This is so because it gives play to, and is always mastering, the historical initiative of the development of the party and the state. The course of the CPC’s exertion of this initiating spirit shows the essential characteristics of the CPC: from the party’s predominance to the combination of the party and the people; from spontaneous exploration to conscious pursuit; from local initiative to overall initiative; and, from reference and exploration to independence. It contains the dialectical unity that upholds the Party’s leadership and inspires the people’s initiative, the organic combination of problem orientation and goal orientation, the benign interaction between theoretical innovation and practical innovation,and the basic experience of self-revolution and social revolution.Facing the future,the CPC should further give play to its historical initiative,recognize the historical orientation, promote the “two combinations”, constantly sum up experience, strengthen party building, and lead the broad masses of people to jointly write the nation’s endlessly magnificent epic.
: the Communist Party of China; historical initiative; the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; two combinations; ideological consensus
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:To observe the effects of the integration reform on a county, the quality of the development of culture and tourism should be scientifically evaluated. At the outset, we constructed an index of cultural and tourism integration. This was constructed in three dimensions, namely, the achievement degree of cultural and tourism organization reform in advance, the process evaluation of cultural and tourism integration in practice, and the results of the cultural and tourism integration after the event. The data of nine counties (cities or districts) in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province was used to empirically apply the index system. The results show that the index system can compare and evaluate the integrated development of county culture and tourism.
:integration of culture and tourism; county territory; indicator system; evaluation number
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: Economic connection is a prerequisite for regional integration. It is also of great significance for improving the innovation capacity, the economic agglomeration, and the policy coordination of the industries in the Yangtze River Delta focused on the digital economy. Taking 27 central cities in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration as a sample, and using the social network analysis and QAP method, this study calculated spatial relationships and their influencing factors on the digital economy for the period 2011 to 2019. The study’s findings are as follows. (1) The spatial relationship of the digital economy among the cities in the Yangtze River Delta tends to be close, but the association network is unstable. There are more passive receivers and loners in the network, and there is still room for improvement. (2) The functions of the 27 cities are obviously different. From the individual point of view, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Wuxi are at the center of the network and play leading roles. From the perspective of plates, the core plate is composed of eight cities, including Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, which have created a significant spillover effect on the other three plates. (3) The distance between cities, the level of economic development, openness, social consumption, and government digitization have significant impacts on the spatial relationship of the digital economy. We should therefore attach great importance to the activity of the spatial connection of the digital economy, strengthen collaborative governance with strong institutional and mechanism innovation, and explore practical paths for the high-quality development of the national digital economy and regional integration development through connectivity, joint construction, and sharing.
: integration of Yangtze River Delta; Digital economy; Spatial correlation; Collaborative governance
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:China’s current infectious disease legal system is a mix of three systems: daily prevention and control, emergency response, and extraordinary emergency response system. The Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases prefers the daily prevention and control system over the emergency system; and, the extraordinary emergency response is ignored in the emergency response field. However, institutional design should match its implementation scenarios. Using the scenario-based research perspective, the folded infectious disease legal system should be flattened in line with the epidemic evolution process of “risk-event-crisis.” Specifically, daily prevention and control and emergency response should be split based on whether the infectious disease is in outbreak or epidemic mode. The daily emergency response and extraordinary emergency response should be split based on whether emergency response measures have formal legitimacy or derogate basic rights. Relevant legislation should adhere to a logical framework that distinguishes between daily prevention and control, daily emergency response, and extraordinary emergency response, so as to form a systematic legal system for infectious diseases.
: Infectious Diseases; Daily Prevention and Control; Emergency Response; Extraordinary Emergency Response