When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low.
Local elections exploit citizens' informational advantage in keeping local officials …

We argue that interjurisdiction competition in authoritarian regimes engenders a specific
logic for taxation. Promotion-seeking local officials are incentivized to signal loyalty and …

China's decentralization has been praised for promoting inter-jurisdictional competition that
incentivizes local officials to promote economic development. The downside of …

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 …

This paper studies how China's recent anti-corruption campaign affects poverty incidence.
Employing five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data, we find the (potential) …

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development
and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the …

China's Futures cuts through the sometimes confounding and unfounded speculation of
international pundits and commentators to provide readers with an important yet overlooked …

Democratic decentralization has been widely adopted across the developing world with the
goal of improving local accountability and the delivery of public services. However …

China's primary approach to addressing poverty in its rural areas has been geographic,
through the targeting of loans, grants and public works at designated'poverty counties'. The …