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"This book is for students and scholars of law, political science, sociology, and economics who are interested in democratic theory, authoritarianism, marketization and democratization, property rights and development, and the relationship between rule of law and democracy, and for those interested in China's past, present and future"--
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Theory: 1. Defining the authoritarian commons; 2. Neighborhood democratization; Part II. A Tale of Three Cities: 3 The three styles of authoritarianism; 4. Rule of law for democracy; 5. Property: a political right, social right, or legal right?; Part III. Benefits and Risks: 6. The origin of self-governed communities in authoritarian cities; 7. Neighborhood governance during China's COVID lockdowns; 8. Contesting party leadership; 9. Associations beyond neighborhoods and property; Conclusion: democracy in China?; Appendix I. Summary of research methods; Appendix II. Survey data and analysis.
About the author
Shitong Qiao is is Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar at Duke University. He also taught property and comparative law at the University of Hong Kong and New York University and was Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University. He received his law degrees from Wuhan (LLB), Peking (MPhil) and Yale (LLM and JSD). He has published numerous articles in the top Chinese and US law journals and a prize-winning book about law and marketization, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Summary
This book is for students and scholars of law, political science, sociology, and economics who are interested in democratic theory, authoritarianism, marketization and democratization, property rights and development, and the relationship between rule of law and democracy, and for those interested in China's past, present and future.
Foreword
Based on six-year ethnographic research across China, it examines how millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy and the party-state's responses.
