Welfare for Autocrats

How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers

Jennifer Pan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-008743-2 (ISBN)

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What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy--in this case, quelling dissent--alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety of methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges the view that concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from the assumption that all tools of repression were originally designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in the case of Dibao may well backfire.

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University.

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Primacy of Political Order
Chapter 2: Becoming Fixated on Political Order
Chapter 3: Reacting at the Hint of Disorder
Chapter 4: Distributing Social Assistance to Preempt Disorder
Chapter 5: Repressing with Social Assistance
Chapter 6: Triggering Backlash
Chapter 7: Becoming a Digital Dictatorship
Appendices
Supplementary Materials

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-008743-9 / 0190087439
ISBN-13	978-0-19-008743-2 / 9780190087432
Zustand	Neuware