Current scholarship on elections in authoritarian regimes has focused on exploring the
relationship between elections and democratization, and it has generally used analytical …

Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and
why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in …

Since the first half of the twentieth century, whites have become much more accepting of the
principle of racial equality even as they have continued to endorse negative racial …

Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that
their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist or ignore the messages? This …

Consultative authoritarianism challenges existing conceptions of nondemocratic
governance. Citizen participation channels are designed to improve policymaking and …

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast
military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more …

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an
undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well …

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson draw on extensive fieldwork as they explore the extent to
which China's private sector supports democracy, surveying more than 2,000 entrepreneurs …

After over a decade of administrative and economic reform in mainland China, the center
has become increasingly remote and less important for many localities. In many ways, the …

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban
China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban …