Aufsatz(elektronisch)#11. September 2011
Book Review: Jeremy L. Wallace, Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China
In: Chinese public administration review, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 65-67
ISSN: 1539-6754
Investigating the mechanism of authoritarian regime survival, Wallace's book provides us with some great insights into the relationship among China's rural-urban migration, urbanization and regime survival through a geopolitical perspective. He explicitly argues that it is through short-circuiting "the Faustian Bargain of urban bias" (p.121) that not only has the authoritarian regime in China successfully survived but also prospered in the past three decades.