Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China(English, Hardcover, Chen Xi)

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Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China(English, Hardcover, Chen Xi) is written by Chen Xi and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107014867 (ISBN 10) and 9781107014862 (ISBN 13).

Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews and a unique data set of about 1,000 government records of collective petitions, this book examines how the political structure in Reform China has encouraged Chinese farmers, workers, pensioners, disabled people and demobilized soldiers to pursue their interests and claim their rights by staging collective protests. Chen suggests that routinized contentious bargaining between the government and ordinary people has remedied the weaknesses of the Chinese political system and contributed to the regime's resilience. Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China challenges the conventional wisdom that authoritarian regimes always repress popular collective protest and that popular collective action tends to destabilize authoritarian regimes.