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dc.contributor.authorSun, Taiyi
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-06T11:55:24Z
dc.date.available2023-01-06T11:55:24Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60532
dc.description.abstractDisruptions 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 guerilla 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesChina Understandings Todayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.otherChina, authoritarian resilience, civil society, institutional disruptions, censorship, protest, CSO, NGO, interactive authoritarianism, toleration, differentiation, legalization without institutionalization, self media, social media, experiment, natural experiment, guerrilla resistance, collective action, state-society, deliberate differentiation, earthquake, social capital, Chinese Communist Party, CCP, CPC, public goods provision, East Asia, disaster politics, non-profit politics, contentious politics, democratization, social science methodologyen_US
dc.titleDisruptions as Opportunitiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeGoverning Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianismen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.12326710en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780472075638en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780472055630en_US
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.pages301en_US


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