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Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China
Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China
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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
political upheaval. Through its hukou system of internal migration restrictions, China has avoided this dilemma, simultaneously aiding urbanites and keeping farmers in the countryside. The system helped prevent social upheaval even during the Great Recession, when tens of millions of laid-off
migrant workers dispersed from coastal cities. Jeremy Wallace's powerful account forces us to rethink the relationship between cities and political stability throughout the developing world.
Author: Jeremy Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/28/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199378999
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1399
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
political upheaval. Through its hukou system of internal migration restrictions, China has avoided this dilemma, simultaneously aiding urbanites and keeping farmers in the countryside. The system helped prevent social upheaval even during the Great Recession, when tens of millions of laid-off
migrant workers dispersed from coastal cities. Jeremy Wallace's powerful account forces us to rethink the relationship between cities and political stability throughout the developing world.
Author: Jeremy Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/28/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780199378999
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1399
About the Author
Jeremy L. Wallace is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University.
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