Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

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 …

In this introductory essay to the special issue on civil society in authoritarian and hybrid
regimes, we review core themes in the growing literature on shrinking or closing space for …

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

Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all
those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world …

This book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) and development, combining a critical overview of the main research literature with …

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 …

The study of ideology in authoritarian regimes—of how public preferences are configured
and constrained—has received relatively little scholarly attention. Using data from a large …

The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also
those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no …

ABSTRACT The paper compares Anglo-American and Chinese approaches to the
outcomes of higher education, primarily but not solely collective outcomes, by examining the …