| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 1.1.Making Autocracy Work -- 1.2.The Outcome: Political Control -- 1.3.Existing Explanations for Political Control -- 1.4.A Theory of Political Control -- 1.4.1.Cultivating Civil Society -- 1.4.2.Co-optation -- 1.4.3.Infiltration -- 1.4.4.How Autocrats Chose Strategies of Control -- 1.5.Challenges to Conventional Wisdom -- 1.6.Research Design -- 1.7.Overview of the Book -- 2.A Theory of Political Control -- 2.1.The Limits of Formal Institutions -- 2.2.Informal Institutions of Control -- 2.3.Cultivating Civil Society -- 2.3.1.The Limits of Cultivating Civil Society -- 2.4.Co-optation -- 2.4.1.The Limits of Co-optation -- 2.5.Infiltration -- 2.5.1.The Limits of Infiltration -- 2.6.How Autocrats Chose Strategies of Informal Control -- 2.7.Conclusion -- 3.The Communist Party's Governance Challenge -- 3.1.Key Social Institutions in Rural China -- 3.1.1.Lineage Groups -- 3.1.2.Folk Religious Organizations -- 3.2.Key Political Institutions in Rural China -- 3.2.1.Village Committees -- 3.2.2.Village-Level CCP Bodies -- 3.2.3.How Village Elections Strengthen Authoritarian Control -- 3.3.Key Government Mandates in Rural China -- 3.3.1.Land Expropriation and Development -- 3.3.2.Family Planning Policy -- 3.3.3.Stability Maintenance -- 3.4.The Communist Party's Governance Challenge -- 3.4.1.Hypotheses about Political Trust and Mobilization -- 3.4.2.Results from an Experiment on Political Trust in Rural China -- 3.5.Conclusion -- 4.Cultivating Civil Society -- 4.1.Lineage Groups and Informal Control -- 4.1.1.Structured Case Study Evidence -- 4.1.2.Survey Evidence on Lineages -- 4.1.3.Beyond China: Caste and Kin in Moghul India -- 4.2.Religious Associations and Informal Control -- 4.2.1.Structured Case Study Evidence -- 4.2.2.Survey Evidence on Religion -- 4.2.3.Beyond China: Company Towns in the US -- 4.3.Beyond Kinship and Religion: Workers and Unions -- 4.4.Conclusion -- 5.Co-optation -- 5.1.Lineage Elites, Moral Authority, and Control -- 5.1.1.The Role of Lineage Elites in Rural Society -- 5.1.2.An Experimental Test of Moral Authority -- 5.1.3.Structured Case Study Evidence -- 5.1.4.Survey Evidence on Kin Group Brokers -- 5.1.5.Beyond China: The Enclosure Movement in Scotland -- 5.2.Religious Leaders, Co-optation, and Control -- 5.2.1.Structured Case Study Evidence on Religious Brokers -- 5.2.2.Survey Evidence on Religious Brokers -- 5.2.3.Beyond China: Urban Renewal in New Haven -- 5.3.Conclusion -- 6.Infiltration -- 6.1.Infiltration and the Reach of the State -- 6.2.Structured Case Study Evidence -- 6.2.1.Wujia Village: Low Infiltration, Weak Control -- 6.2.2.Taiping Village: High Infiltration, Strong Control -- 6.3.Survey Evidence on Infiltration -- 6.3.1.Infiltration Helps the State Requisition Land -- 6.3.2.Infiltration Helps Enforce Family Planning Policies -- 6.3.3.Infiltration Decreases Satisfaction with the State -- 6.3.4.Results from a Natural Experiment -- 6.4.Infiltration as a Substitute for Other Strategies -- 6.5.Conclusion -- 7.Conclusion -- 7.1.Main Findings -- 7.2.When Things Fall Apart -- 7.2.1.The Strange Case of Wukan -- 7.3.Implications for Understanding the Rise of China -- 7.4.Implications for Governance in Autocracies -- A.Additional Figures and Tables -- B.Survey Design -- C.Qualitative Research Design |
| Summary |
"Governance is a problem of political control. For governments, the problem is how to control society: how to maintain order, enforce laws, collect revenue, and implement policy. For citizens, the problem is how to control their governments: how to ensure that political leaders respond to their demands and are held accountable if they do not. This problem of political control is especially severe in autocracies like China, where the state reaches further into people's everyday lives and where citizens have fewer avenues for holding officials accountable than in most democracies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political leadership -- China
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Social control -- China
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Political leadership
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Politics and government
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Social control
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019038317 |
| ISBN |
9781108662536 |
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1108662536 |
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