After the Tiananmen crisis in June, 1989, many observers thought that the rule of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) would collapse. Instead, the regime brought inflation under control…

The success of the recent leadership transition in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might
be interpreted as evidence that China’s authoritarian regime is historically unique. More …

… Two millennia of Chinese imperial rule offer rich material for generating … of authoritarian
resilience. Moreover the surprising success of the contemporary People’s Republic of China (…

… China, but is important because the collapse of authoritarian states can sometimes occur
with little or no warning.13 For the purpose of testing the relationship between political science …

… ‘resilient’? This is the place in this essay to repeat my frequent disclaimer that when I wrote
about ‘authoritarian resilience… Chinese political institutions might have decayed later on. But I …

… The authoritarian resilience thesis seems to hold up if one examines the change and
continuity of the broad policy framework that each generation of CCP leaders has embraced over …

… If we wish to understand authoritarian resilience, we need to give up the idea that we could
… with democratic governments in the one end and authoritarian governments in the other end. …

… authoritarian rule in a rapidly rising China. While political rebellions have challenged dictators
from Central Asia to North Africa, the Communist regime in China … like China's argue that …

… o ers a testing ground for assessing authoritarian resilience. Findings presented in this book
… resilient authoritarianism. Struggles over online expression reveal the agility of the Chinese …

… Against this background, we argue that China’s ‘authoritarian resilience’ cannot be fully
grasped without adopting a local state perspective to examine the way that policy-making plays …