Reinforcing authoritarianism through democracy : participatory pricing in China / Xuan Qin.
Qin, Xuan, author.
2021
JQ1510
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Title Reinforcing authoritarianism through democracy : participatory pricing in China / Xuan Qin.
Author Qin, Xuan, author.
ISBN 9789813349568 (electronic book)
9813349565 (electronic book)
9789813349551
9813349557
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4956-8
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-33-4956-8 doi
Call Number JQ1510
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.951
Summary This book provides empirical evidence to show how democratic experiments are harnessed to achieve control and support authoritarianism, through the lens of participatory pricing, which is one of the most important forms of deliberative democracy in China. The crucial point is an interlacement of easily perceptible improvement in empowerment (voluntary enrollment, disclosure of information and opportunities for expression during events) and hidden control (delicately designed procedures and pre-existing frameworks that influence participants in how they think, and when they talk). The mixture of these two mechanisms assures participants and educates them, producing cooperative citizens desired by the government. This is referred to as the partial empowerment strategy, which challenges the traditional assumption of the correlation between deliberation and empowerment. When authoritarian control influences deliberations in a form that obstructs the natural developmental process of empowerment, it acts as a filter that encourages only some form of empowerment, but precludes those that are too risky for the government. This exertion of dominance through a participatory form reflects the development of governance capability of China as a modern authoritarian state and explains its "surprising" resilience. Xuan Qin is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences in Fudan University. She received her Ph. D. from the Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include democratic theory and statistical analysis. She currently serves as an Editor for the Chinese Political Science Review
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 10, 2021).
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