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132957
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2014.
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Given their critical influence on society and politics, university students are one of the key target groups for authoritarian political control around the world. To further our understanding of the endurance and resilience of authoritarianism in post-Deng China, it is necessary to examine one of the Party-state's most crucial control frameworks: the institutional mechanism through which it preserves social stability in the nation's 2,358 university campuses, and maintains control over its more than 22 million college students. Drawing upon intensive field research conducted in 2011, this article attempts to map out the structures and measures deployed by the post-Deng regime to nurture political compliance and consolidate its domination of university campuses. By deciphering an essential component of the state's political control apparatus, this article aims to shed new light on the internal operations of the authoritarian system that is running China today.
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157294
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Why do local officials across China respond differently to societal challengers? In this article, the authors analysed six recent and influential social protests in China—the Dongyang protest (2005), Xiamen protest (2007), Weng’an protest (2008), Shanghai Anti-MagLev Railway Project protest (2008), Shenzhen protest (2008) and Shishou protest (2009). The article demonstrates that disparities in state capacity noticeably affect the trajectories of contentious collective actions and shape government responses in China. Local states in China respond to social protests by dynamically and vigorously assessing their capacity as the social protest develops, and by weighing the probable effectiveness of control measures designated for the locale.
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153567
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In the wake of the global economic crisis of 2008, the Chinese state has
enhanced its systematic eff orts to rebuild Communist Party branches in
private enterprises. Th is article examines such eff orts with specifi c reference
to the campaign initiated in 2012 in Anhui province, one of the
most recent initiatives undertaken by the party-state to infi ltrate the
country’s huge and still-growing private sector. Th e article examines the
emerging and dynamic institutional links between provincial party-state
apparatus and local private businesses in Anhui and highlights the four
key methods used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to extend
its control over the increasingly powerful and infl uential private sector.
Th ese mechanisms are establishing new offi cial institutions to coordinate
CCP aff airs related to the private sector, “sending down” a group
of “party-building instructors,” rewarding private business elites with
appointments to party positions, and reorienting the work of local party
organs to better serve the needs of the private sector. Although this
business-oriented party building has indeed made the CCP more
relevant to private business development and thus increased its organizational
presence, it remains unclear whether these eff orts have genuinely
strengthened the Communist Party’s control of the private sector.
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144570
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Today, with social protests a daily phenomenon in China, the Party-state’s survival hinges upon its institutional capacity to prevent, monitor, process information on, and overcome real and potential challenges. Over the past decade, the Communist Party has consistently stressed the critical importance of ‘stability preservation’ (weiwen) as central to ensuring the longevity of the authoritarian regime. Drawing upon intensive interviews and archival research, this article looks into the stability-preservation system in W County in North China. By exploring the institutional configuration, work mechanisms, daily activities and operational principles of the stability-preservation apparatus in the county, the author seeks to gain insight into the PRC regime’s mythical operations of ‘system maintenance’ and the ways in which the Party-state exerts control over society.
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