NDLI: Authoritarian Co-optation, the Territorial Dimension: Provincial Political Representation in Post-Mao China

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Author	Sheng, Yumin
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Little comparative research has examined territorially motivated co-optation under single-party authoritarianism. I argue that national autocrats in single-party regimes also have incentives to co-opt and control the more economically resourceful but potentially more politically restive subnational regions under economic decentralization and globalization to ease resource extraction and prolong their national rule. In particular, they could take advantage of their personnel monopoly power over the regional government leadership to enlarge the presence of officials governing these regions at a collective decision-making forum within the ruling party, such as its Politburo, where the national autocrats prevail. Consistent with this logic, I find, in the case of China during 1978–2005, that larger, more export-oriented, and to a lesser extent, wealthier provinces—as well as provinces with higher urbanization, centrally administered municipalities, and ethnic minority regions—were on average more likely to be governed by sitting members of the Politburo of the sole governing Chinese Communist Party Central Committees. The findings highlight a hitherto neglected territorial dimension in efforts to explain the relative resilience of authoritarian single-party regimes.
Starting Page	71
Ending Page	93
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393606
Journal	Studies in Comparative International Development
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	19366167
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2008-07-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Co-optation Single-party authoritarianism China Subnational regions Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Development

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