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Collective<br />

Resistance<br />

in China<br />

Why Popular Protests<br />

Succeed or Fail<br />

Yongshun Cai<br />

“Drawing on qualitative and<br />

quantitative data, and his work<br />

in the countryside and cities,<br />

Yongshun Cai has given us<br />

the best volume on Chinese<br />

protest outcomes we’re likely<br />

to see for some time. The landmark<br />

effort will find an immediate<br />

place on my syllabi and the<br />

list of books I tell others they<br />

simply must read.”<br />

—Kevin J. O’Brien,<br />

<strong>University</strong> of California, Berkeley<br />

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-<br />

Pacific Research Center<br />

304 pp., 27 tables, 11 figures, 2010<br />

9780804763400 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale<br />

9780804763394 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale<br />

Localising<br />

Power in Post-<br />

Authoritarian<br />

Indonesia<br />

A Southeast Asia<br />

Perspective<br />

Vedi R. Hadiz<br />

Accepting<br />

Authoritarianism<br />

State-Society Relations<br />

in China’s Reform Era<br />

Teresa Wright<br />

Why hasn't the emergence<br />

of capitalism led China's<br />

citizenry to press for liberal<br />

democratic change? This book<br />

argues that the explanation<br />

lies in China's combination<br />

of state-led development, late<br />

industrialization, and socialist legacies. Together, these factors<br />

have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic<br />

mobility and polarization, economic dependence on the<br />

state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to<br />

perpetuate the political status quo.<br />

Accepting Authoritarianism offers a detailed analysis of<br />

China’s major socioeconomic groups, and also places China<br />

in an explicitly comparative theoretical and empirical<br />

framework to address the ways in which its development<br />

shares broader features of state-led late industrialization<br />

and post-socialist transformation. Comparisons are made<br />

with Mexico, Tunisia, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia,<br />

Eastern and Central Europe, and Vietnam.<br />

“Ingeniously and exhaustively plumbs the literature on five<br />

key social groups in contemporary China to build a powerful<br />

and convincing case arguing that the incentive structure<br />

facing Chinese citizens encourages them to sustain<br />

the rule of the Communist Party—at least for awhile.”<br />

—Dorothy J. Solinger, <strong>University</strong> of California, Irvine<br />

264 pp., 5 figures, 2010<br />

9780804769044 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale<br />

9780804769037 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale<br />

“Critical scholarship at its best,<br />

this book is a powerful corrective<br />

to those who see decentralization<br />

as a one-size-fits-all<br />

solution to bad governance.<br />

Hadiz convincingly argues that<br />

Indonesia's decentralization<br />

prompted not the positive outcomes<br />

its advocates predicted,<br />

but a scramble for local power<br />

by corrupt politicians, gangsters<br />

and other predators.”<br />

—Edward Aspinall,<br />

Australian National <strong>University</strong><br />

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, a series<br />

sponsored by the East-West Center<br />

264 pp., 2010<br />

9780804768535 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale<br />

9780804768528 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale<br />

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Comparative Politics and <strong>Political</strong> Economy

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