Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the
world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to …

This article develops an interactive and relational conception of infrastructural state power
for studying the capacity of authoritarian regimes to absorb popular protests. Based on an …

Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule?
The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the …

Chinese authorities are reconsidering legal reforms they enacted in the 1980s and 1990s.
These reforms had emphasized law, litigation, and courts as institutions for resolving civil …

By just about any metric of environmental quality and sustainability, China faces an
environmental crisis of daunting proportions.'The country is the world's leading emitter of …

The CCP government has adopted a very pragmatic strategy of “performance legitimacy”
since China began its reform. It means that the government relies on accomplishing …

Over the past two decades, the Chinese domestic security apparatus has expanded
dramatically.“Stability maintenance” operations have become a top priority for local Chinese …

This article critically examines the development of legal consciousness among legal aid
plaintiffs in Shanghai. It is based on 16 months of research at a large legal aid center and in …

本文旨在从国家政权建设的角度讨论新中国信访制度形成及演变的历史过程和规律. 研究发现,
信访制度是中国共产党根据群众路线而创立的. 根据群众路线, 信访工作有社会动员和冲突化解 …

Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower
predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a …