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Cities and Stability - Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Hardcover)
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Cities and Stability - Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Hardcover)
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Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate
and hide, and to transform private grievances into political
causes, often erupting in urban protests that can destroy regimes.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped urbanization via
migration restrictions and redistributive policy since 1949 in ways
that help account for the regime's endurance, China's surprising
comparative lack of slums, and its curious moves away from urban
bias over the past decade. Cities and Stability details the threats
that cities pose for authoritarian regimes, regime responses to
those threats, and how those responses can backfire by exacerbating
the growth of slums and cities. Cross-national analyses of
nondemocratic regime survival link larger cities to shorter
regimes. To compensate for the threat urban threat, many regimes,
including the CCP, favor cities in their policy-making. Cities and
Stability shows this urban bias to be a Faustian Bargain,
stabilizing large cities today but encouraging their growth and
concentration over time. While attempting to industrialize, the
Chinese regime created a household registration (hukou) system to
restrict internal movement, separating urban and rural areas.
China's hukou system served as a loophole, allowing urbanites to be
favored but keeping farmers in the countryside. As these barriers
eroded with economic reforms, the regime began to replace
repression-based restrictions with economic incentives to avoid
slums by improving economic opportunities in the interior and the
countryside. Yet during the global Great Recession of 2008-09, the
political value of the hukou system emerged as migrant workers, by
the tens of millions, left coastal cities and dispersed across
China's interior villages, counties, and cities. The government's
stimulus policies, a combination of urban loans for immediate
relief and long-term infrastructure aimed at the interior, reduced
discontent to manageable levels and locales.
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