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Welfare for Autocrats

How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers

Jennifer Pan

Explore the detrimental effects of China's focus on political stability in Welfare for Autocrats. Jennifer Pan reveals how the country's social assistance program, Dibao, has been manipulated into a tool of surveillance and repression, causing damage to perceptions of government legitimacy and potentially sparking unrest among those denied benefits. Pan examines the phenomenon of seepage, where one policy alters the goals of unrelated areas of government. With unique datasets and methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges assumptions about repression and reveals the high human costs of China's preoccupation with order.
Publish Date
2020-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
2020-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.88
ISBN
9780190087432
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-07-13T06:17:43.000Z
Ive been reading a lot of China books these days. @LizEconomy The Third Revolution truly stands out. Also learning a lot from @jenjpan 's Welfare for Autocrats.      source