Cities and Stability - Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China

This title examines the threats that large cities pose to authoritarian regime survival and the ways that regimes respond to those threats, particularly focusing on China's management of urbanization through its household registration (hukou) system.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Urban Bias: A Faustian Bargain


• Chapter 3: Cities, Redistribution, and Regime Survival


• Chapter 4: China's Loophole to the Faustian Bargain of Urban Bias


• Chapter 5: The Fiscal Shift: Migration, Instability, and Redistribution


• Chapter 6: Return to Sender: Hukou, Stimulus, and the Great Recession


• Chapter 7: Under Pressure: Urban Bias and External Forces


• Chapter 8: Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Appendix

About the author

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

Summary

Cities and Stability examines the threats that large cities pose to authoritarian regime survival and the ways that regimes respond to those threats, particularly focusing on China's management of urbanization through its household registration (hukou) system.

Additional text

How has China navigated the dangerous shoals of explosive growth with less urban unrest and brutal repression than other nations? In this lucid, convincing, study of the prevention of slums and the dispersal of dissent, backed by impressive comparative and historical evidence, Wallace has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of urbanization and political stability.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Wallace, Jeremy (Assistant Professor of Political Wallace, Jeremy L Wallace, Jeremy L. Wallace, Wallace Jeremy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9780199378999
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937899-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Political structures: democracy, economic growth, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Asian History, Marxism & Communism, Political structures / systems: democracy