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Administrative Mediation
authoritarian governance
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CCP
CCP Rule
CCP's Legitimacy
Central Government
China
China's Economic Success
Chinese Government
Chinese Political System
Chinese Urban Residents
Civil Society
civil society activism
coercive repression
Dingxin Zhao
domestic discontent
empirical studies of Chinese political protests
environmental degradation
Environmental Information Disclosure
Environmental Issues
environmental protest movements
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Feng Chen
Fiscal Responsibility System
Florian Schneider
foreign affairs
Gunter Schubert
Harmonious Society
Homeowner Activism
Hongxing Yang
International Politics
International Relations
Jieren Hu
Jinghan Zeng
Journal of Contemporary China
Kevin J. O'Brien
Lingjian Zeng
Local Policy Implementation
Micro-political Approach
People's Mediation
Peter Sandby-Thomas
political legitimacy theory
popular protests
Ray Ou Yang
regime legitimacy
Rural Collective Industry
Social Organizations
social unrest China
Socialist Core Values System
socio-economic inequality
Stability Discourse
Stability Maintenance
state-society relations
Street Protests
Wenchuan Earthquake
Wonjae Hwang
Xiaojun Yan
Xinhong Wang
Yang Zhong
Yanhua Deng
Yi Kang
Yih-Jye Hwang
Yousun Chung

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138289611
  • Weight: 612g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This comprehensive volume is a three-part study of whether the Chinese political system has maintained a significant degree of regime legitimacy in the context of rising domestic discontent, in particular the popular protests against socio-economic inequality and environment degradation. Part I presents the scholarly debate on the theoretical refinement and empirical measurement of regime legitimacy in contemporary China. Part II focuses on the challenges to regime legitimacy of the increasingly widespread popular protests and civil activism. Part III examines the regime’s responses to these challenges, including coercive repression, adaptation, and economic performance. This book finds that, while repression can hardly stop popular protests – and often backfires – economic performance legitimacy is increasingly difficult to be maintained. The only way out is the adaptation to the changing domestic and international environment.

The chapters in this collection were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary China.

About
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.