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(Hardback)
By: Jing Chen
ISBN: 9781498534529
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the positive effects of the petition system on Chinas resilient decentralized authoritarian regime. Combining detailed case studies and rigorous statistical analysis, it argues that citizens petitions help the regime to alleviate threats to stability by giving an information edge to the Chinese central government.
