Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China /
China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization""--The emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the su...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2014
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| Summary: | China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization""--The emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this ""urban bias"" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for polit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199379009 9780199379002 9780199379019 0199379017 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
