Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes
Subtitle: Comparing China and Russia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 05 June 2020
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780190093495
Description: "This volume compares the most powerful authoritarian states in global politics today: Russia and China. For all their power and money, both regimes have faced difficult tradeoffs in seeking both political stability and reliable information about society while confronting the West and its international influence. They have also made different choices: Russia today is a competitive authoritarian regime, while China is a non-competitive authoritarian regime. Desite the different paths taken after the tumultuous events of 1989, both regimes have returned to a more personalized form of authoritarian rule. By placing China and Russia side-by-side, this volume examines regime-society relations and produces new insights, including what strategies their rulers have used to stay in power while forging political stability and gathering information; how societal groups have resisted, complied, or responded to these strategies; and what costs and benefits, anticipated and unexpected, have accompanied the bargains political leaders and their societies have struck. The essays in this volume change the way we understand authoritarian politics and expand the terrain of how we analyze regime-society relations in authoritarian states. On the societal side, this book looks not just at society as a whole, but also the more specific roles of public opinion, labor politics, political socialization, political protests, media politics, environmental movements, and non-governmental organizations. On the regime side, this study is distinctive in examining not just domestic threats and the general strategies rulers deploy in order to manage them, but also international threats and the rationale behind and impact of new laws and new policies, both domestic and international"--
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: |; label: Chapter I:
title: Valerie Bunce (Cornell University), Karrie Koesel (University of Notre Dame) and Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University),
pagenum: "Introduction: Regimes & Societies in Authoritarian States." |; label: Section I:
title: Preempting Threats; label: Chapter II:
title: Jeremy Wallace (Cornell University),
pagenum: "The New Normal: A Neopolitical Turn in China's Reform Era." |; label: Chapter III:
title: Diana Fu (University of Toronto) and Greg Distelhorst (University of Toronto),
pagenum: "Political Opportunities for Participation & China's Leadership Transition." |; label: Chapter IV:
title: Karrie Koesel (University of Notre Dame) and Valerie Bunce (Cornell University),
pagenum: "Diffusion-Proofing: Russian and Chinese Responses to Waves of Popular Mobilization Against Authoritarian Rulers." |; label: Section II:
title: Media Politics; label: Chapter V:
title: Maria Repnikova (Georgia State University),
pagenum: "Critical Journalists in China and Russia: Encounters with Ambiguity." |; label: Chapter VI:
title: Tomila Lankina, Kohei Watanabe and Yulia Netesova (London School of Economics, University of Innsbruck, London School of Economics),
pagenum: "How Russian Media Control, Manipulate, and Leverage Public Discontent: Framing Protest in Autocracies." |; label: Section III:
title: Law & Labor; label: Chapter VII:
title: Elizabeth Plantan (Harvard University),
pagenum: "A Tale of Two Laws: Managing Foreign Agents & Overseas NGOs in Russia & China." |; label: Chapter VIII:
title: Manfred Elfstrom (University of British Columbia, Okanagan),
pagenum: "Holding the Government's Attention: State Sector Workers in China." |; label: Section IV:
title: Building Public Support; label: Chapter IX:
title: Aleksandar Matovski (Williams College),
pagenum: "The Logic of Vladimir Putin's Popularity." |; label: Chapter X:
title: Karrie Koesel (University of Notre Dame),
pagenum: "Legitimacy, Resilience and Political Education in Russia and China: Learning to Be Loyal." |; label: Chapter XI:
title: Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University),
pagenum: "Going Public: Choosing to Work for the Russian State." |; label: Chapter XII:
title: Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University),
pagenum: "Conclusion: China, Russia, and the Authoritarian Embrace of Globalization." |