Contrary to expectations, economic interdependence has not tempered security conflict
between China and the United States. In response to perceived domestic and external …

This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese
leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Party-state has launched political campaigns …

Canonical theories of bureaucracy demonstrate the need for enhanced monitoring in
government hierarchies. I argue that intensive top-down monitoring may reduce the …

Governments rely more and more on experts to manage the increasingly complex problems
posed by a growing, diversifying, globalizing world. Surplus technocracy, however, usually …

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies
as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid …

This study interrogates how China's ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area
practice their citizenship. We build on the ideas of cultural citizenship and authoritarian …

This chapter conceptualizes public shaming as a regulatory mechanism in Kazakhstani
politics. Finding its origin in the Soviet era's public shaming and in the tradition of uyat …

Contrasting elements of China's “urban sickness” are empty new apartment complexes
abutting dilapidated but overcrowded structures. While scholarship has explored these …

Why do authorities demolish informal settlements in metropolises? Social sciences have a
long tradition of addressing this issue through the lens of development or welfare provision. I …

This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese
leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Partystate has launched political campaigns …