Welfare for autocrats : how social assistance in China cares for its rulers / Jennifer Pan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pan, Jennifer, 1981- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Social policy.

China.

Public welfare--China--History--21st century.

Public welfare.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Over the past two decades, maintaining political order has been the Chinese regime's primary goal. This text shows how China's preoccupation with 'stability' (political order) seeps into unrelated policies in previously unexplained ways. This 'seepage' has affected China's Dibao program, the world's largest welfare program of its kind. For the first time ever, this work shows how seepage works, what motivates it, what its effects are, and how seepage can backfire, ironically leading to protests and discontent. Jennifer Pan explores the primacy of political order and challenges how we think about welfare, institutional change, repression, surveillance, and collective action.

Contents:

Introduction

Fixating on political order

Reacting at the threat of disorder

Disturbing social assistance to preempt disorder

Repressing with social assistance

Triggering backlash

Becoming a digital dictatorship.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 12, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-008746-3

0-19-008744-7