Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

China's economic liberalization. To protect their own rights, the homeowners created ‘homeowners' committees' as an … contemporary China is by no means a top-down-created process but is an outcome of the complex interplay between the state's top …

instruments to investigate the origins and consequences of popular democratic conceptions in mainland China, with particular …