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Deliberate Differentiation by the Chinese State: Outsourcing Responsibility for Governance.
- Source :
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China Quarterly . Dec2019, Vol. 240, p880-905. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Do authoritarian governments' responses towards different civil society organizations (CSOs) reflect policy differentiations? Building on the existing literature of graduated control, diversification of civil society, and consultative authoritarianism, this paper utilizes an online field experiment, and interviews with government officials and CSO leaders to demonstrate that local governments have the tendencies to intentionally treat different CSOs with different policy responses, referred to as "deliberate differentiation" in this paper. However, contrary to what the existing literature would suggest, this study reveals that at the local level, such differentiation is driven more by the state's interest in extracting productivity and outsourcing responsibility for the provision of public goods and less by the state's need to acquire information from CSOs, including politically sensitive advocacy groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CIVIL society
*AUTHORITARIANISM
*PUBLIC goods
*SOCIAL groups
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03057410
- Volume :
- 240
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- China Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140316198
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019000420