What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling
dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare
for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major
social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation,
turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance
and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of
government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among
those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing
order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a
phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy-in this case,
quelling dissent-alters the allocation of resources and goals of
unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety
of methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges the view that
concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from
the assumption that all tools of repression were originally
designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's
preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in
the case of Dibao may well backfire.
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