
S2 Ep3: The legacy of autocracy in China
VoxDev Development Economics
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What Is the Mechanism, What Are the People Thinking?
It was already part of the narrative. The people ere convinced that they can be punished for any deviations from what's desirable or the official life. And on top of this, without inertial conditions, yet, it was convincingad especially the literay inquisition. Then through the transition to the mechanism, mostly through the community, an overtime, you started having to scannagatyor foot back because there's been less charities. So i would say it is both the initial conditions, which is the contina being a very well established autocracy already, and the policy, which being clarly aggressive on the intellectuals. Is two been together and made it very convincing to the people
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