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Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China

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Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China - Hillman, Ben
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Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, ...

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Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China 2014, Stanford University Press

ISBN-13: 9780804789363

Hardcover