Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age,
Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt …

In the past decade, China has increasingly resorted to top‐down,“blunt force” solutions to
environmental problems; officials forcibly shutter or destroy factories to reduce pollution, at …

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone
Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent …

This article argues that neo-authoritarian regimes–meaning those autocratic regimes that
emerged after the end of the Cold War and during the fourth wave of democratisation–do not …

This article outlines how a materialist understanding of foreign policy predicated on
contrasting sovereignty regimes might be applied to current conflicts between China and the …

Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics—who rules?
what explains political behavior? where and why?—Introducing Comparative Politics, Fifth …

What do the activities of twenty-first-century Chinese lawyers tell us about the origins and
prospects of legal activism under authoritarianism? This essay fits China's Human Rights …

This book is a comprehensive political study of the South China Sea (SCS) disputes. With
over US $5 trillion worth of trade passing through it every year and a history of military …

Open spaces in shopping malls and commercial complexes are publicly accessible and
resemble public spaces, but they are designed and managed for seeking profit and serving …

This analysis argues that the period of easy reforms in China has ended, and the time of
difficult reforms that touch core political interests has begun. The resulting challenges facing …