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Junsen Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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economic returns to communist Party Membership evidence from urban chinese twins
2006Co-Authors: Pak Wai Liu, Junsen ZhangAbstract:This paper estimates the returns to Membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party Member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation of these results is that the OLS Party premium is due to omitted ability and family background. This interpretation would suggest that Party Members fare well not because of their special political status per se, but because of the superior ability that made them Party Members. The estimates are also consistent with an alternative interpretation that Party Membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling.
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economic returns to communist Party Membership evidence from urban chinese twins
2005Co-Authors: Pak Wai Liu, Junsen ZhangAbstract:This paper empirically estimates the returns to Membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data that the authors collected from urban China. Our ordinary least squares estimate shows that being a Party Member increases earnings by 28.1 percent, but when we use a within-twin-pair fixed-effects model, the effect of Party Membership all but disappears, which suggests that much of the estimated value of Party Membership that is given in the literature is due to the effects of omitted ability or family background. The findings suggest that Party Members fare well not because of their special political status per se, but because of the superior ability that allowed them to pass through the strict Party Membership selection process.
Sarah Harrison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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24 hours in the life of a young Party Member
2009Co-Authors: Michael Bruter, Sarah HarrisonAbstract:We have seen that family, friends, and school can all have a major impact on the decision of a young person to join a political Party. In turn, however, what is the effect of joining a Party on the young Member’s relationship to his family, friends, and school or work? In fact how does joining a Party impact his daily rhythm and his life altogether? As explained in Chapter 1, Party Membership is first and foremost a highly time consuming form of activism, which requires a high level of commitment. How does this work in practice, and what do young Party Members sacrifice as a result of their partisanship and their political involvement?
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becoming a young Party Member inheritance paths to Membership and political socialisation
2009Co-Authors: Michael Bruter, Sarah HarrisonAbstract:The previous chapter enabled us to sketch and colour the ‘world’ of young Party Members — what makes them unique in terms of participation and institutional commitment — it now seems essential to understand how and why they embarked upon their road to Party Membership.
Pak Wai Liu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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economic returns to communist Party Membership evidence from urban chinese twins
2006Co-Authors: Pak Wai Liu, Junsen ZhangAbstract:This paper estimates the returns to Membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party Member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation of these results is that the OLS Party premium is due to omitted ability and family background. This interpretation would suggest that Party Members fare well not because of their special political status per se, but because of the superior ability that made them Party Members. The estimates are also consistent with an alternative interpretation that Party Membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling.
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economic returns to communist Party Membership evidence from urban chinese twins
2005Co-Authors: Pak Wai Liu, Junsen ZhangAbstract:This paper empirically estimates the returns to Membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data that the authors collected from urban China. Our ordinary least squares estimate shows that being a Party Member increases earnings by 28.1 percent, but when we use a within-twin-pair fixed-effects model, the effect of Party Membership all but disappears, which suggests that much of the estimated value of Party Membership that is given in the literature is due to the effects of omitted ability or family background. The findings suggest that Party Members fare well not because of their special political status per se, but because of the superior ability that allowed them to pass through the strict Party Membership selection process.
Sarah Childs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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feminizing political parties women s Party Member organizations within european parliamentary parties
Party Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Sarah Childs, Miki Caul KittilsonAbstract:Party Member women’s organizations were early features of Party development. While some contemporary studies maintain these are important sites for the substantive representation of women, there is also a claim that they are in decline. Our primary purpose here is to establish the existence of Party Member women’s organizations – as one test of the first dimension of Party feminization: the inclusion of women. We draw on new survey data of 17 European countries provided by Scarrow, Poguntke and Webb. We establish that almost half have a Party Member women’s organization. The new data also permits analysis of relationships between Party Member women’s organization and gender quotas for the top Party leadership body (National Executive Committee (NEC)), women’s presence among the Party leadership and candidate quota rules. Together we see these (i) as a means to establish whether women are marginalized within the Party, thereby limiting descriptive representation and (ii) as surrogate measures for women’s s...
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reforming parliamentary selection Party change parliamentarian and Party Member attitudes
2012Co-Authors: Sarah Childs, Paul WebbAbstract:The coming together of those within the Conservative Party seeking the greater descriptive representation of women for principled reasons, together with a new Party leadership keen to be electorally competitive, created a favourable moment of opportunity for the selection of many more women parliamentary candidates between 2005 and 2010 (Kittilson 2006).2 The context within which their endeavour took place included, however, a decentralized parliamentary selection process which made it difficult to force local associations to select women and a Party ideology that valorized the principle of merit. On both accounts, the Party at large was unlikely to support measures that engender women’s (s)election, most especially equality guarantees .3 The Party already had form (Bale 2010: 227–8). William Hague, who was Party leader between 1997 and 2001, had wanted a woman placed on every parliamentary selection shortlist but, in the face of activist and MPs’ resistance, he had backed down (Snowdon 2010: 51). A poll of Party Members prior to Cameron taking over, had already established that only 14 percent were in agreement with the idea of an ‘A’ List of priority candidates (Bale 2010: 291).
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Party Member attitudes and women s policy by and for women
2012Co-Authors: Sarah Childs, Paul WebbAbstract:The pre-Cameron Conservative Party lacked electoral competitiveness on ‘women’s issues’.2 By the 2010 general election this was very much less the case. Policy pledges on maternity and paternity leave and pay, and flexible working, amongst others, suggested substantial reform, if not redirection of the Party’s position, even if Cameron’s public commitment to recognizing marriage in the tax system, at least for some commentators, tempered such appraisals (and may, indeed, have outweighed the other initiatives in terms of the public and media attention it attracted). The Party’s ‘women’s’ policy commitments were evidently designed to market the Party to women voters, especially middle income mothers, as well as others who, whilst not directly affected by them, would see in them a sign that the Party was now more in tune with modern life. Some of these policies looked risky in terms of the Party’s ideological traditions and its core vote, especially those whose dispositions might be expected to favour more traditional gender roles and who might wish to protect business from what they would consider ‘costly’, in both economic and social terms, social engineering. Indeed, of the 2008 Women’s Policy Group Report, Women in the World Today, which underpinned the Party’s 2010 manifesto commitments, a leading Conservative woman felt sure that some in the Parliamentary Party (and one might add too, the Party’s grassroots) would be concerned that the Tories had ‘stolen a march’ on Labour.
Lawrence A. Zeidman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hans Jacob and brain research on Hamburg "euthanasia" victims: "Awaiting further brains!
Neurology, 2017Co-Authors: Lawrence A. ZeidmanAbstract:Several neuropathologists conducted brain research on victims of so-called euthanasia programs carried out by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany from 1940 to 1945. Some published their results in German journals or books during and after the war. One of these neuropathologists was Hans Jacob of Hamburg, a former Nazi Party Member and the leader of the same laboratory previously run by Alfons Jakob (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Though much has been published on the unethical actions of Jacob9s fellow neuropathologist from Berlin, Julius Hallervorden, Jacob9s actions were remarkably similar and have not been previously analyzed in the neuroscience literature. Jacob dissected at least 42 patient brains from euthanasia centers near Hamburg, and saved the specimens from at least 17 of them. He published a 1956 book chapter featuring 2 such specimens. Jacob was denazified, had a notable career, and never publicly addressed his actions during the war. His ethical violations may not have been on the same scale as Hallervorden’s, but the effect of his work echoes to the modern era. As responsible researchers, we must always be conscious of the provenance of material provided and not succumb to opportunistic temptation despite the ethical consequences.