Xi Jinping's efforts to recentralize political power have triggered a debate over if these
changes will destroy the “authoritarian responsiveness” in China credited with regime …

Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the
Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of …

Public participation has been a critical factor to seriously affect the effectiveness of
environmental impact assessment (EIA) in China, especially since the 21st century …

Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of deliberative practices.
These practices combine authoritarian concentrations of power with deliberative influence …

Consultative authoritarianism challenges existing conceptions of nondemocratic
governance. Citizen participation channels are designed to improve policymaking and …

An increasing number of scholars have established that authoritarian regimes employ quasi-
democratic institutions as part of their efforts to retain power. However, we know little about …

This research applies David Beetham's theory of legitimacy to analyse the current decision‐
making procedures of public budgeting in mainland China. Specifically, it evaluates the …

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of
political order, or" stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has …

The heavy smog suffocating China's cities is increasingly being perceived as a threat by
both the population and the authorities. Consequently, political action aiming at regulating …

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that
increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on …