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Introduction

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 1 –28

[The introduction highlights that the book’s central aim is to capture the internal mechanism that shapes complex strategic-value relations in political realms by building a political reasoning model of the motivation-heuristic complex developed from a synthesis of (political) psychology and...

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Approaching Political Reasoning

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 31 –46

[The chapter discusses two points in preparation for the model building. Firstly, it emphasizes the “motivations” as the ones that are highly immune to social interactions so that one will not confuse between things rooted in actors’ being and the things vulnerable to external socialization. This...

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Two Tiers of Motivation-Heuristics

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 47 –77

[The chapter argues two layers of motivation-heuristics continuously work. The first layer is the desire for survival (internal functionality and external safety, the necessary structural and material support for internal/external safety) and its corresponding heuristic mechanism of pay-off...

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Two Tiers’ Interaction

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 79 –90

[The chapter argues that, besides combination, the two layers of motivation-heuristics interact with each other due to their development laws. On the one hand, the degree of survival relativity (e.g., more survival satisfaction means lower survival relativity) positively correlates to the...

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Reasoning Outcome: Form and Type

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 91 –95

[The chapter argues that the two layers’ combination and interaction finally aggregate to the reasoning outcome. There are two characteristics of the outcome, the former reflecting the two layers’ mix and the latter reflecting the two layers’ interaction. The first characteristic is that the form...

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Empirical Connection: The China Case

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 99 –111

[The chapter discusses how to test or apply the model of motivation-heuristics to empirical studies in general, connected to the China case. For example, it discusses how to collect and analyze materials (e.g. through discourse analysis) that reflect shared reasoning of the leading groups of a...

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China and Human Rights: Two Layers of Considerations

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 113 –152

[The chapter argues that the Chinese policy elite is continuously driven by two kinds of considerations, contributing to China’s increasing attention to human rights (domestically and internationally) since 1990 and especially since 1997. The first consideration relates to motives and strategies...

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Pre-1997: National Survival Strategy

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 153 –178

[The aggregated condition of “two degrees” shapes a prominence of national survival-strategy in China’s human rights idea/policy from 1990 to 1997. On the one hand, the survival relativity concerning human rights is higher due to international sanctions and China’s lower national...

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Post-1997: Towards Balance Between National Survival and Meaningfulness

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 179 –216

[China’s expanded attention to human rights since 1997 is driven by a movement towards a balance between national survival strategy and meaningfulness expression/practicing due to a new condition of “two degrees”. On the one hand, a softened concentration on national strategic maximization is...

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Conclusion

Li, Kanzhen

Pages: 217 –228

[The chapter concludes the model and empirical findings. It explains the internal mechanism that drives the material and ideational considerations’ combination with varying relative-weights across cases/periods. It then describes how such internal mechanism and consequent strategic-ideational...

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