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  • The Street and the Ballot Box

    Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts

    de Lynette H. Ong ...
    Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
    How do discontented masses and opposition elites work together to engineer a change in electoral authoritarian regimes? Social movements and elections are often seen as operating in different terrains – outside and inside institutions, respectively. In this Element, I develop a theory to describe how a broad-based social movement that champions a grievance shared by a wide segment of the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Outsourcing Repression

    Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

    de Lynette H. Ong ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Prosper or Perish

    Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China

    de Lynette H. Ong ...
    The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by, townships and villages. These township and village enterprises have experienced highly uneven levels ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    de Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    de Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    de Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

    Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

    de Jeremy L. Wallace ...
    A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

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  • The End of American World Order

    de Amitav Acharya ...
    The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

  • The State and Industry in South Korea

    The Limits of the Authoritarian State

    de Jong-Chan Rhee ...
    The economic success of East Asia is often attributed to the relationship between state and business. In The State and Industry in South Korea , Jong-Chan Rhee presents a more balanced view of Korea's `industrial miracle'. The book examines the limits of a strong authoritarian state as a vehicle for intervening in the market or for sponsoring liberal reform. In so doing the author focuses on how ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    de Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dictator's Dilemma

    The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival

    de Bruce Dickson ...
    Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true. Despite minor setbacks, China has experienced explosive economic growth and relative political stability ever since 1989. In The Dictator's Dilemma, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Chinese Mafia

    Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection

    de Peng Wang ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD