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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207515
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650717