The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. ... Chunlong Lu's research found that "The Communist government has directly or indirectly controlled virtually the entire process of local people's congress elections: from the nomination of candidates, electorate deliberation, to the determination of final candidates on the ballot "(Halpern, 1991: 38; Burns, 1999: 591). ... Li argues for the CCP persevering in China due to two important features: State-led economic process, in which the state has ownership of all ...

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It would then appear that steps taken so far in the advancement of environmental protection previously existed, and had been preempted by the Communist Manifesto, and are more clearly depicted in the Preamble to Agenda 21: "This process marks the beginning of a new global partnership for sustainable development."" ... Through the Agrarian Reform Laws (1959, 1963), land was distributed to more than 200,000 peasant families, and 70% of the Latifundio lands (large estates) passed into state control. ...

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While this may encourage a lack of personal sympathy and the alienation of those at the bottom of the pyramid, it can surely be argued that governments even in capitalist states take steps to regulate the actions of companies in a neoliberalist society. ... It should also be noted that it is within the very nature of a publicly quoted company that corporate shares are, after all, there to be invested in, and injections of money into businesses small or large may often justify a release of parts of their control to a wider variety of people. The immediate response to this argument is outlined,...

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