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Embedding the program of elderly care into community-based service system seems to imply that China is reorganising capacities of neighbourhood governance. The program, created by transformation of neighbourhood governance, represented the state government's frustration with the institutional embodiment of neoliberalism. However, stimulating neighbourhood organisations in elderly care service through involvement of market instruments demonstrated the neoliberal approach. In this study, we provided a research framework in the context of embedded neoliberalism to explore the dilemma of neighbourhood governance in China. By interviewing 100 elderly people in five neighbourhoods in Nanjing, China, we examined the home-based elderly care (HEC) model to analyse the changes in socio-spatial relationships of neighbourhoods. We argued that the state-organised system of market instruments as a form of neighbourhood system weaken the spontaneity of elderly residents in developing social capitals. Moreover, the emerging program is struggling to operate because the devolution of conservative governance capacity from the state to the neighbourhood does not provide resources, leading to the restrained market provision. Thus, this transformation of neighbourhood governance can only be effective if there is a clear complementarity relationship between the role of state and market instruments. The attention of further studies on neighbourhood governance needs to re-examine the reciprocal relationships in the context of declining neoliberalism.

Classic agenda-setting studies implied a zero-sum process, in which issues compete for media and public attention. Recent time series analyses on single issues have disregarded this central assumption. Evidence from a variety of sources was cited to illustrate that agenda-setting is a zero-sum game, due to the limited carrying capacity of the public agenda. A mathematical model was proposed to incorporate the strengths of both the classic approach and the time series technique. The model was tested with data on three recent issues. Results reveal both mutual competition and one-way attraction among issues.

This study examines journalists' perceptions of the adversarial role of the press toward public officials and business, based on two national samples of newspaper journalists, surveyed in 1983 and 1988 respectively. After the journalists were broken down into various age cohorts, three distinctive trends emerged. During the five-year period, the oldest cohorts demonstrated a drop in adversarial position, the middle-aged cohorts became more adversarial, and the youngest cohorts showed a tendency toward the middle-of-the-road. A log-linear analysis suggested that these trends were related to age effect and cohort effect, but not period effect.

Several individual-level causes of protest behavior suggested by Western research are investigated in the case of the People's Republic of China, based on a secondary analysis of mail survey data from 2,500+ urban working residents, collected just 3 months before the 1989 massive upheaval. Path analysis reveals that age, education, & Communist party membership had both direct & indirect impacts on protest, in an expected way. Income had only an indirect effect, whereas the impact of gender was not significant because the direct & indirect effects countered each other. Occupation made no difference, while discontent with economic reforms, distrust in the government, aspirations for Western democracy, & disillusionment with communist ideology all significantly enhanced protest behavior. Postmaterialist values, which contribute positively to political protest in the West, play a suppressor role in the Chinese context. Implications for comparative research on public opinion & political behavior are discussed. 2 Tables, 1 Appendix, 24 References. Adapted from the source document.