Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China / Jeremy L. Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Jeremy L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--China.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization--China.

Urbanization.

Rural-urban migration--Government policy--China.

Rural-urban migration.

Recording and registration--Government policy--China.

Recording and registration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization"" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this ""urban bias"" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for polit

Contents:

Cover; Cities and Stability; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; chapter 1 Introduction; JASMINE REVOLUTIONS, FAILED AND SUCCESSFUL; THREE PUZZLEs; UNDERSTANDING CITIES, SPENDING, AND SURVIVAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; chapter 2 Urban Bias: A Faustian Bargain; LARGE CITIES ARE DANGEROUS FOR NONDEMOCRATIC REGIMES; REGIME RESPONSES AND THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN; WHY MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL?; chapter 3 Cities, Redistribution, and Regime Survival; HYPOTHESES; ON VARIOUS VARIABLES; METHODS AND DATA; ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION

chapter 4 China's Loophole to the Faustian Bargain of Urban BiasORIGINS OF THE HUKOU SYSTEM; MAO'S CCP IN POWER, 1949; REFORMS; Hukou Experiments; chapter 5 The Fiscal Shift: Migration, Instability, and Redistribution; CHINA'S FISCAL SHIFT; SUB-NATIONAL ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; CONCLUSION; chapter 6 Return to Sender: Hukou, Stimulus, and the Great Recession; CHINA COMING INTO THE CRISIS; CRISIS HITS CHINA; ECONOMIC CRISIS SPARKS INSTABILITY; COMPLICATIONS; CONCLUSION; chapter 7 Under Pressure: Urban Bias and External Forces; THREATS AND URBAN.RURAL REDISTRIBUTION IN NONDEMOCRACIES; DATA

ANALYSISDISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; chapter 8 Conclusion; CHINA AS APPROPRIATE CASE STUDY; TWITTER AS A CITY; LOOKING FORWARD; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliogrsphical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-938721-4

0-19-937900-9

OCLC:

890606673