图书标签: 中国政治 社会学 政治学 海外中国研究 比较政治 政权存续 维稳 城市
发表于2024-12-25
Cities and Stability pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
How and why has China managed to develop and urbanize without the slums that dominate large cities in other poor countries the world over? Why has the Chinese Communist Party persisted in power when so many other communist and autocratic regimes have fallen? I develop a general argument about redistribution, urbanization, and regime stability based on the Chinese case. Since 2002, scholars affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party have argued that the Chinese government fears "Latin Americanization" (la mei hua), that is, highly unequal megacities and their attendant crime, slums, and social instability. In response, the Chinese government has abolished agricultural taxes and begun subsidizing rural areas. This shift is anomalous since most developing countries give preferential treatment to cities in order to reduce the threat of urban unrest. I argue that such urban favoritism is self-defeating in the long-term because it induces further urbanization, increasing the long-term risk to the regime. Nevertheless, urban bias remains endemic in the developing world because most governments do not have the luxury to think beyond the short-term. I test the implications of this argument both cross-nationally and within China using quantitative and qualitative data. Cross-national survival analysis of autocratic regimes since World War II shows that urbanization, controlling for level of economic development, negatively affects regime duration. In order to study the mechanisms at work, I used 15 months of field research in Beijing and two other provinces to delve into the Chinese case. Two sets of analyses at the national and local level respectively illustrate how the government uses fiscal and other policies to maintain social stability and to control and direct urbanization.
Jeremy L. Wallace is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University.
视角很有意思,但故事讲得生涩且跳跃,水平还有待提高。在比较政治学中,定量方法能揭示未被注意的事实和联系,但如果没有对所涉情景的深刻理解,终究无力处理事实本身的多义性。
评分视角很有意思,但故事讲得生涩且跳跃,水平还有待提高。在比较政治学中,定量方法能揭示未被注意的事实和联系,但如果没有对所涉情景的深刻理解,终究无力处理事实本身的多义性。
评分视角很有意思,但故事讲得生涩且跳跃,水平还有待提高。在比较政治学中,定量方法能揭示未被注意的事实和联系,但如果没有对所涉情景的深刻理解,终究无力处理事实本身的多义性。
评分视角很有意思,但故事讲得生涩且跳跃,水平还有待提高。在比较政治学中,定量方法能揭示未被注意的事实和联系,但如果没有对所涉情景的深刻理解,终究无力处理事实本身的多义性。
评分视角很有意思,但故事讲得生涩且跳跃,水平还有待提高。在比较政治学中,定量方法能揭示未被注意的事实和联系,但如果没有对所涉情景的深刻理解,终究无力处理事实本身的多义性。
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Cities and Stability pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024