Titel
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China
Abstract
How does the elevated threat of protests during sensitive periods affect state repression in a high-capacity authoritarian regime? Drawing on a dataset of over 3,100 protests in three Chinese megacities, this study provides three key findings: first, the frequency of protests before and during national-level focal events and subsequent to national-level disruptive events is depressed, suggesting preemptive repression is taking place. Second, the likelihood of responsive repression is marginally reduced before and during local-level focal events and slightly elevated after national-level disruptive events. Third, contention is intensified when local political elites meet. Sensitive periods do not bring contention to a standstill and costly bursts of responsive repression were not observed. Stability maintenance during times of increased regime-vulnerability was thus less rigid than often assumed.
Stichwort
Political Science and International RelationsGeography, Planning and DevelopmentDevelopment
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1206155
Erschienen in
Titel
Journal of Contemporary China
Band
30
Ausgabe
130
ISSN
1067-0564
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Seitenanfang
526
Seitenende
549
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2020 The Author(s)

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