Social Organizations And The Authoritarian State In China
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Author |
: Timothy Hildebrandt |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2013-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107021310 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107021316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China by : Timothy Hildebrandt
An analysis of the emergence of NGOs across China in three different issue areas: environmental protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, and gay and lesbian rights.
Author |
: John W. Tai |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 2014-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319036656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319036653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China by : John W. Tai
How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasize the institutional environment that facilitates a modern civil society. However, there is a need for a new perspective on this issue. Contemporary China, where a modern civil society remains in a nascent stage, offers a valuable site to seek new answers. Through a comparative analysis of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in today’s China, this study shows the importance of the human factor, notably the NGO leadership, in the establishment of a modern civil society. In particular, in recognition of the social nature of NGOs, this study engages in a comparative examination of Chinese NGO leaders’ state linkage, media connections and international ties in order to better understand how each factor contributes to effective NGOs.
Author |
: Valerie Bunce |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190093488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019009348X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes by : Valerie Bunce
"This volume compares the most powerful authoritarian states in global politics today: Russia and China. For all their power and money, both regimes have faced difficult tradeoffs in seeking both political stability and reliable information about society while confronting the West and its international influence. They have also made different choices: Russia today is a competitive authoritarian regime, while China is a non-competitive authoritarian regime. Desite the different paths taken after the tumultuous events of 1989, both regimes have returned to a more personalized form of authoritarian rule. By placing China and Russia side-by-side, this volume examines regime-society relations and produces new insights, including what strategies their rulers have used to stay in power while forging political stability and gathering information; how societal groups have resisted, complied, or responded to these strategies; and what costs and benefits, anticipated and unexpected, have accompanied the bargains political leaders and their societies have struck. The essays in this volume change the way we understand authoritarian politics and expand the terrain of how we analyze regime-society relations in authoritarian states. On the societal side, this book looks not just at society as a whole, but also the more specific roles of public opinion, labor politics, political socialization, political protests, media politics, environmental movements, and non-governmental organizations. On the regime side, this study is distinctive in examining not just domestic threats and the general strategies rulers deploy in order to manage them, but also international threats and the rationale behind and impact of new laws and new policies, both domestic and international"--
Author |
: Xian Huang |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2020-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190073657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190073659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Protection under Authoritarianism by : Xian Huang
Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate, increasing enrollment from 20 percent of its population in 2000 to 95 percent in 2012. Significantly, people who were uninsured, such as peasants and the urban poor, are now covered, but their insurance is less comprehensive than that of China's elite. With the wellbeing of 1.4 billion people and the stability of the regime at stake, social health insurance is now a major political issue for Chinese leadership and ordinary citizens. In Social Protection under Authoritarianism, Xian Huang analyzes the transformation of China's social health insurance in the first decade of the 2000s, addressing its expansion and how it is distributed. Drawing from government documents, filed interviews, survey data, and government statistics, she reveals that Chinese leaders have a strategy of "stratified expansion," perpetuating a particularly privileged program for the elites while developing an essentially modest health provision for the masses. She contends that this strategy effectively balances between elites and masses to maximize the regime's prospects of stability. In China's multilevel governance, both centralized and decentralized structures are involved in the distribution of social health insurance. When local leaders implement the stratified expansion of social health insurance, they respond to varied local conditions. As a result, China's health insurance policies differ dramatically across subnational regions as well as socioeconomic groups. Providing an in-depth look into China's health insurance system, this book sheds light not only on Chinese politics, but also on how social benefits function in authoritarian regimes and decentralized multilevel governance settings.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2022-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684176472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684176476 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolutionary Governance in China by :
The People’s Republic of China has experienced numerous challenges and undergone tremendous structural changes over the past four decades. The party-state now faces a fundamental tension in its pursuit of social stability and regime durability. Repressive state strategies enable the Chinese Communist Party to maintain its monopoly on political power, yet the quality of governance and regime legitimacy are enhanced when the state adopts more inclusive modes of engagement with society. Based on a dynamic typology of state–society relations, this volume adopts an evolutionary framework to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. Drawing on original fieldwork, the authors identify areas in which state–society interactions have shifted over time, ranging from more constructive engagement to protracted conflict. This evolutionary approach provides nuanced insight into the circumstances wherein the party-state exerts its coercive power versus engaging in more flexible responses or policy adaptations.
Author |
: Wenfang Tang |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190205782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190205784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Populist Authoritarianism by : Wenfang Tang
Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to the continuity from the CCP's revolutionary experiences to its current governing style, even though China has changed in many ways on the surface in the post-Mao era. The book proposes a theoretical framework of Populist Authoritarianism with six key elements, including the Mass Line ideology, accumulation of social capital, public political activism and contentious politics, a government that is responsive to hype, weak political and civil institutions, and a high level of regime trust. These traits of Populist Authoritarianism are supported by empirical evidence drawn from multiple public opinion surveys conducted from 1987 to 2014. Although the CCP currently enjoys strong public support, such a system is inherently vulnerable due to its institutional deficiency. Public opinion can swing violently due to policy failure and the up and down of a leader or an elite faction. The drastic change of public opinion cannot be filtered through political institutions such as elections and the rule of law, creating system-wide political earthquakes.
Author |
: Taiyi Sun |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2023-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472903306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472903306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disruptions as Opportunities by : Taiyi Sun
Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 interviews conducted with Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders and government officials, participant observation, and online research, the book proposes a new theory of interactive authoritarianism to explain how an adaptive authoritarian state manages nascent civil society. Sun argues that when new phenomena and forces are introduced into Chinese society, the Chinese state adopts a three-stage interactive approach toward societal actors: toleration, differentiation, and legalization without institutionalization. Sun looks to three disruptions—earthquakes, internet censorship, and social-media-based guerrilla resistance to the ride-sharing industry—to test his theory about the three-stage interactive authoritarian approach and argues that the Chinese government evolves and consolidates its power in moments of crisis.
Author |
: Timothy Brook |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2015-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317474388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317474384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civil Society in China by : Timothy Brook
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
Author |
: Tony Saich |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 65 |
Release |
: 2016-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004322943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004322949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis State-Society Relations in the People’s Republic of China Post-1949 by : Tony Saich
This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in China post-1949. It is not intended to provide a new theoretical framework for understanding state-society relations; rather, the goal is to draw together the most important analyses in Western and Chinese writings. We begin by looking at the changing role of two key institutions that have been used by the state to manage society: the household registration system and the workplace. The analysis of the Maoist period looks at theories derived from Soviet studies as well as those that draw on the Chinese Communist Party’s own experiences pre-1949. We complete the review by looking at competing theories such as civil society, corporatism, or authoritarian resilience that seek to define the relationship and then look in depth at how to categorize the variety of state-society relations at the local level.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 515 |
Release |
: 2020-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004428898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004428895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China by :
Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its external projection in Russia and China. The book is an essential guide to understand the deep changes of these countries and their global aspirations.