Social Protest And Contentious Authoritarianism In China

Author : Xi Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014867
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China written by Xi Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

Author : Chen, Xi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139224673
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China written by Chen, Xi and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

Author : Chen, Xi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139218153
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China written by Chen, Xi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Xi Chen explains why there has been a dramatic rise in social protests in China since the early 1990s and how it has strengthened the current regime"--

Author : Xi Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107014862
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China written by Xi Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews, and a unique data set of about 1,000 government records of collective petitions, this book examines how the political structure in Reform China has encouraged Chinese farmers, workers, pensioners, disabled people, and demobilized soldiers to pursue their interests and claim their rights by staging collective protests. Chen suggests that routinized contentious bargaining between the government and ordinary people has remedied the weaknesses of the Chinese political system and contributed to the regime's resilience. Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China challenges the conventional wisdom that authoritarian regimes always repress popular collective protest and that popular collective action tends to destabilize authoritarian regimes.

Author : Christopher Heurlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107131138
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsive Authoritarianism in China written by Christopher Heurlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion of China as merely a repressive dictatorship, Heurlin shows that policymaking has been surprisingly responsive to protests.

Author : Yanqi Tong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113446181X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Protest in Contemporary China, 2003-2010 written by Yanqi Tong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's economic transformation has brought with it much social dislocation, which in turn has led to much social protest. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the large-scale mass incidents which have taken place in the last decade. The book analyses these incidents systematically, discussing their nature, causes and outcomes. It shows the wide range of protests – tax riots, land and labour disputes, disputes within companies, including private and foreign companies, environmental protests and ethnic clashes – and shows how the nature of protests has changed over time. The book argues that the protests have been prompted by the socioeconomic transformations of the last decade, which have dislocated many individuals and groups, whilst also giving society increased autonomy and social freedom, enabling many people to become more vocal and active in their confrontations with the state. It suggests that many protests are related to corruption, that is failures by officials to adhere to the high standards which should be expected from benevolent government; it demonstrates how the Chinese state, far from being rigid, bureaucratic and authoritarian, is often sensitive and flexible in its response to protest, frequently addressing grievances and learning from its own mistakes; and it shows how the multilevel responsibility structure of the Chinese regime has enabled the central government to absorb the shock waves of social protest and continue to enjoy legitimacy.

Author : Manfred Elfstrom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425128
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contentious Politics in China written by Manfred Elfstrom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li provide an in-depth overview of Chinese contentious politics. They examine why protest occurs in China, how it plays out, how authorities react to it, and what social and political implications it has.

Author : Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266307
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Protest in China written by Kevin J. O'Brien and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and society, argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China. Drawing on fieldwork in China, the authors consider topics as varied as student movements, protests by angry workers and taxi drivers, recruitment to Protestant house churches, cyberprotests, and anti-dam campaigns. Their work relies on familiar concepts—such as political opportunity, framing, and mobilizing structures—while interrogating the usefulness of these concepts in a country with a vastly different history of class and state formation than the capitalist West. The volume also speaks to “silences” in the study of contentious politics (for example, protest leadership, the role of grievances, and unconventional forms of organization), and shows that well-known concepts must at times be modified to square with the reality of an authoritarian, non-western state.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004428895
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Yongshun Cai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108996086
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Social Protests in China written by Yongshun Cai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has witnessed numerous incidents of social protests over the past three decades. Protests create uncertainty for authoritarian governments, and the Chinese government has created, strengthened, and coordinated multiple dispute-resolution institutions to manage social conflicts and protests. Accommodating the aggrieved prevents the accumulation of grievances in society, but concessions require resources. As the frequency and scale of collective action are closely tied to the political opportunity for action, the Chinese government has also contained protest by shaping the political opportunity available to the aggrieved. Cai and Chen show that when the Chinese central government prioritizes social control, as it has under Xi Jinping's leadership, it signals that it will tolerate local governments' use of coercion. The result is an environment that is not conducive to the mobilization of collective action, large-scale occurrences of which have been uncommon in China in recent years.