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Economics June 18, 2021

Workers and Change in China

Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness

Manfred Elfstrom

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Post-socialist China has seen extensive labor unrest in the form of strikes, protests, and riots. The party-state has responded, sometimes with greater repression, sometimes with institutional changes to better channel and represent worker interests, and sometimes with both. Manfred Elfstrom’s Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (Cambridge UP, 2021) explores the feedback loop between citizen unrest and state response, using both extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis of strike …
Political Science March 7, 2023

Dictatorship and Information

Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Martin K. Dimitrov

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," …