The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China

The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China

Edition

First Edition

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year of Publication

2025

Series

Law in Context

ISBN

9781108885416

Description

Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Using interviews, survey data, and a comprehensive examination of laws, policies and judicial decisions, this book also examines how the party-state in China responds to the risks and benefits brought by neighborhood democratization. Moreover, this book provides a framework to analyze different approaches to the authoritarian dilemma facing neighborhood democratization which may increase the regime's legitimacy and expose it to the challenge of independent organizations at the same time. Lastly, this book identifies conditions under which neighborhood democratization can succeed.

Disciplines

Law

Subjects

Law, China, Democracy

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