MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Evan Osnos, Letter from China @ newyorker.com, Feb. 24, 2012
[....] I've heard of vote-buying in local Chinese elections, but this is an impressive new standard: nine thousand yuan—that’s more than fourteen hundred dollars—is several months’ salary for many Chinese workers. “Last fall,” Yang went on, “when we elected the Party secretary, I got enough out of it to buy an iPad.”
For an explainer, I turned to Mayling Birney, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, who spent years examining the halting development of China’s village-elections system [.....]
Comments
I think that this is a practice we need to copy.
It's a terrific way to redistribute income, and certainly creates more value than puffing up TV stations revenue.
by jollyroger on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 3:45pm