Cities and Stability : Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China.

By: Wallace, JeremyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199379002Subject(s): Cities and towns -- China | Recording and registration -- Government policy -- China | Rural-urban migration -- Government policy -- China | Urbanization -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cities and Stability : Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in ChinaDDC classification: 307.760951 LOC classification: HT147.C48 -- .W355 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Cities and Stability -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1 Introduction -- JASMINE REVOLUTIONS, FAILED AND SUCCESSFUL -- THREE PUZZLEs -- UNDERSTANDING CITIES, SPENDING, AND SURVIVAL -- RESEARCH DESIGN -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- chapter 2 Urban Bias: A Faustian Bargain -- LARGE CITIES ARE DANGEROUS FOR NONDEMOCRATIC REGIMES -- REGIME RESPONSES AND THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN -- WHY MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? -- chapter 3 Cities, Redistribution, and Regime Survival -- HYPOTHESES -- ON VARIOUS VARIABLES -- METHODS AND DATA -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 4 China's Loophole to the Faustian Bargain of Urban Bias -- ORIGINS OF THE HUKOU SYSTEM -- MAO'S CCP IN POWER, 1949 -- REFORMS -- Hukou Experiments -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 5 The Fiscal Shift: Migration, Instability, and Redistribution -- CHINA'S FISCAL SHIFT -- SUB-NATIONAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 6 Return to Sender: Hukou, Stimulus, and the Great Recession -- CHINA COMING INTO THE CRISIS -- CRISIS HITS CHINA -- ECONOMIC CRISIS SPARKS INSTABILITY -- COMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 7 Under Pressure: Urban Bias and External Forces -- THREATS AND URBAN.RURAL REDISTRIBUTION IN NONDEMOCRACIES -- DATA -- ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 8 Conclusion -- CHINA AS APPROPRIATE CASE STUDY -- TWITTER AS A CITY -- LOOKING FORWARD -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Cover -- Cities and Stability -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1 Introduction -- JASMINE REVOLUTIONS, FAILED AND SUCCESSFUL -- THREE PUZZLEs -- UNDERSTANDING CITIES, SPENDING, AND SURVIVAL -- RESEARCH DESIGN -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- chapter 2 Urban Bias: A Faustian Bargain -- LARGE CITIES ARE DANGEROUS FOR NONDEMOCRATIC REGIMES -- REGIME RESPONSES AND THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN -- WHY MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? -- chapter 3 Cities, Redistribution, and Regime Survival -- HYPOTHESES -- ON VARIOUS VARIABLES -- METHODS AND DATA -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 4 China's Loophole to the Faustian Bargain of Urban Bias -- ORIGINS OF THE HUKOU SYSTEM -- MAO'S CCP IN POWER, 1949 -- REFORMS -- Hukou Experiments -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 5 The Fiscal Shift: Migration, Instability, and Redistribution -- CHINA'S FISCAL SHIFT -- SUB-NATIONAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 6 Return to Sender: Hukou, Stimulus, and the Great Recession -- CHINA COMING INTO THE CRISIS -- CRISIS HITS CHINA -- ECONOMIC CRISIS SPARKS INSTABILITY -- COMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 7 Under Pressure: Urban Bias and External Forces -- THREATS AND URBAN.RURAL REDISTRIBUTION IN NONDEMOCRACIES -- DATA -- ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- chapter 8 Conclusion -- CHINA AS APPROPRIATE CASE STUDY -- TWITTER AS A CITY -- LOOKING FORWARD -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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