Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China / / Jeremy L. Wallace
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| Autore: |
Wallace Jeremy L.
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| Titolo: |
Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China / / Jeremy L. Wallace
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| 2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.760951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - China |
| Urbanization - China | |
| Rural-urban migration - Government policy - China | |
| Recording and registration - Government policy - China | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cities and stability |
| ISBN: | 0-19-938721-4 |
| 0-19-937900-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818228203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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