Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China /

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China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization""--The emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the su...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, Jeremy L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Cities and towns > China.
Recording and registration > Government policy > China.
Rural-urban migration > Government policy > China.
Urbanization > China.
Villes > Chine.
Enregistrement > Politique gouvernementale > Chine.
Exode rural > Politique gouvernementale > Chine.
Urbanisation > Chine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Cities and towns
Rural-urban migration > Government policy
Urbanization
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Communities - Urban Groups.
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization""--The emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this ""urban bias"" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for polit.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0199379009
9780199379002
9780199379019
0199379017

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