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Public Opinion Reform In China, David S. Mason, Ken Colburn
Public Opinion Reform In China, David S. Mason, Ken Colburn
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
As the People's Republic of China shifts toward a more market-oriented economic system, it has also begun exploring another Western institution: scientific public opinion polling. As Yang Guansan, one of China's leading pollsters, said recently in the Beijing Review: "Only five or six years ago, the public opinion poll was considered to be a 'bourgeois' or 'capitalist' method of social survey ... Now the taboo has been swept away in the strong tide of reform, which is challenging all of China's traditions, stereotypes and prejudices."
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Was Kennedy's Way The Best Way?, Lisa Anne Erb
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Was Kennedy's Way The Best Way?, Lisa Anne Erb
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
The traditional interpretation of the Cuban missile crisis is held by nearly all of the participants in the crisis, as well as by many contemporary observers, including numerous journalists and political scientists of the 1960s and 1970s. For the most part, the traditionalists form a cohesive interpretation, with nearly all traditional writers agreeing on at least three basic issues.