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Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Bondes, Maria - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these social forces. This paper argues that such a conceptualization should take into account the role that both the party?state and social actors attribute to social organizations. With...

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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy

Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2008

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...

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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2012

South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...

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