The Authoritarian Commons(English, Hardcover, Qiao Shitong)

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The Authoritarian Commons(English, Hardcover, Qiao Shitong) is written by Qiao Shitong and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108840272 (ISBN 10) and 9781108840279 (ISBN 13).

Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Using interviews, survey data, and a comprehensive examination of laws, policies and judicial decisions, this book also examines how the party-state in China responds to the risks and benefits brought by neighborhood democratization. Moreover, this book provides a framework to analyze different approaches to the authoritarian dilemma facing neighborhood democratization which may increase the regime's legitimacy and expose it to the challenge of independent organizations at the same time. Lastly, this book identifies conditions under which neighborhood democratization can succeed.