In this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history—the massive retirement of officials in the People’s Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less gene...(展开全部)

n this book Melanie Manion analyzes the largest bloodless circulation of elites in history--the massive retirement of officials in the People's Republic of China. Beginning in 1978 and continuing through the 1980s, Chinese leaders in Beijing replaced millions of old cadres, including veterans of the communist revolution, with younger generations of better educated and less gene...(展开全部)

This book addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China's private sector manages to grow without secure property rights, and proposes a new theory of selective property rights to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on rich empirical evidence including in-depth interviews, a unique national survey of private entrepreneurs, two original national audit experiments and secondary sou...(展开全部)

让·爱尔斯坦（Jean Bethke Elshtain，1941-2013），美国艺术与科学学院院士，著名的评论家、政治哲学家和公共知识分子，在宗教学、政治学、伦理学等领域均享有盛名。一生所获荣誉无数，其中包括“古根海姆学者”，美国政治学会的“古德诺奖”。曾任芝加哥大学神学院社会与政治伦理学洛克菲勒讲席教授，同时也在芝加哥大学政治学系任教。著有 Women and War; Just War Theory; Democracy on Trial 等作品。《公共的男人，私人的女人》是她的代表作。

让·爱尔斯坦（Jean Bethke Elshtain，1941-2013），美国艺术与科学学院院士，著名的评论家、政治哲学家和公共知识分子，在宗教学、政治学、伦理学等领域均享有盛名。一生所获荣誉无数，其中包括“古根海姆学者”，美国政治学会的“古德诺奖”。曾任芝加哥大学神学院社会与政治伦理学洛克菲勒讲席教授，同时也在芝加哥大学政治学系任教。著有 Women and War; Just War Theory; Democracy on Trial 等作品。《公共的男人，私人的女人》是她的代表作。

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness p...(展开全部)

书评1：This is a fascinating, thought-provoking book that discusses with great skill issues like preference falsification, pluralistic ignore, social psychology, and related topics. It's a great study of why people too often don't do what they believe. The book is very easy to read and strikes a good balance between being based in research and telling a good story. 书评2：This book d...(展开全部)

Preference falsification, according to Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. In this book Kuran argues that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, he provi...(展开全部)

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their...(展开全部)