Welfare for autocrats : how social assistance in China cares for its rulers / Jennifer Pan.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190087463 (ebook) :Subject(s): China -- Social policy
| Public welfare -- China -- History -- 21st century | China -- Politics and government -- 2002-Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190087425DDC classification: 361.610951 LOC classification: HN733.5Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Over the past two decades, maintaining political order has been the Chinese regime's primary goal. This text shows how China's preoccupation with 'stability' (political order) seeps into unrelated policies in previously unexplained ways. This 'seepage' has affected China's Dibao program, the world's largest welfare program of its kind. For the first time ever, this work shows how seepage works, what motivates it, what its effects are, and how seepage can backfire, ironically leading to protests and discontent. Jennifer Pan explores the primacy of political order and challenges how we think about welfare, institutional change, repression, surveillance, and collective action.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over the past two decades, maintaining political order has been the Chinese regime's primary goal. This text shows how China's preoccupation with 'stability' (political order) seeps into unrelated policies in previously unexplained ways. This 'seepage' has affected China's Dibao program, the world's largest welfare program of its kind. For the first time ever, this work shows how seepage works, what motivates it, what its effects are, and how seepage can backfire, ironically leading to protests and discontent. Jennifer Pan explores the primacy of political order and challenges how we think about welfare, institutional change, repression, surveillance, and collective action.
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