@article{1433607,
      recid = {1433607},
      author = {Qin, Xuan,},
      title = {Reinforcing authoritarianism through democracy :  participatory pricing in China /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433607},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4956-8},
}