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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786554703321

Autore

Wallace Jeremy L.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

2014

ISBN

0-19-938721-4

0-19-937900-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

307.760951

Soggetti

Cities and towns - China

Urbanization - China

Rural-urban migration - Government policy - China

Recording and registration - Government policy - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliogrsphical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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