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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 />
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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 />
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9780804768528 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale<br />
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Comparative Politics and <strong>Political</strong> Economy