Far from acting defensively to preserve the social relations and red ideologies that originally
gave it power, the Chinese Communist Party is leading a social and economic …

This paper conceptualizes 'neo-socialist governmentality'as a set of rationalities of
governance that aim to shape, nurture, constrain and guide the autonomy of Chinese …

The edited volume Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes is a very rich and much
needed collection of studies discussing state-society relations in Russia and China. The …

This edited volume offers case studies of a range of political, social and economic reforms in
contemporary China. The studies analyze how the reforms have shaped and changed …

The four volumes reviewed in this article examine the common theme of the sustainability of
China's authoritarian regime as it faces tremendous centripetal forces of market expansion …

This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government's road map, formulated in
2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It …

This analytically rigorous volume on contemporary state–society relations pushes beyond
the prevailing “intellectual cottage industry of adjectives modifying authoritarianism”(p. 12) to …

China has experienced an unprecedented expansion of social welfare benefits in the
absence of substantive political reform. Despite the expansion of welfare benefits, access to …

The Chinese regime is commonly classified as a communist, party-based, or single-party
regime in comparative quantitative regime classifications (eg Kailitz, 2013; Geddes, Wright …

The relationship between economic development and political democracy is one of the most
debated studies among social scientists in the contemporary era. In recent years, the future …