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Making Welfare Work for Autocracy: Wealth, Will & Woes in the Politics of Welfare in China.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Making Welfare Work for Autocracy: Wealth, Will & Woes in the Politics of Welfare in China./
作者:	Farooq, Asif Bin.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	284 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28323612
ISBN:	9798522946647

Making Welfare Work for Autocracy: Wealth, Will & Woes in the Politics of Welfare in China.
Farooq, Asif Bin.

Making Welfare Work for Autocracy: Wealth, Will & Woes in the Politics of Welfare in China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 284 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

China's recent welfare expansion demonstrates a puzzling case. The welfare expansion has been broad-based, benefiting almost every sector of the society in one way or another, which is rare considering past authoritarian regimes often made welfare expansion exclusive to its loyal-support base. A wide degree of variation also exists in how welfare policies are prioritized in the shortterm and how welfare provision is made in the long-term. To address these puzzles, the study examines welfare expansion at the city-level, covering 114 cities from 2006 to 2016. The main arguments are three-fold. First, local leaders prioritize different welfare policies with different motivations. They prioritize education spending strategically, ensuring human development for the local economy's productive purpose while enhancing prospects for personal promotion. By contrast, annual social security and total welfare spending are determined by the local state sector's size. Second, the state sector also plays a critical role in determining long-term welfare provision. Cities with a large state sector tend to have a high level of welfare provision in the long-term. Finally, the state sector gained more than any other sector from the expansion of social security even though the general population experienced a relative improvement in their welfare. The findings underscore the importance of the state sector for regime survival. The expansion of the state sector is a culmination of past policies. While the state sector's expansion had the goal of establishing its commanding presence in the market economy, on the political level, it became a vehicle for advancing the Party's socialist agenda and establishing social stability. Moreover, the mixed-welfare system made the fiscal burden of welfare expansion bearable through standardization of social security, creating a large pool for contribution by socializing risk. Privileged benefit and coverage helped strengthen the Party's patronage relation with the state sector, while the relative improvement in welfare provision for all helped gain broader legitimacy. As a result, the Party-regime made the welfare expansion work for its own survival interest by instrumentalizing welfare for mass-cooptation while making it affordable. The study establishes a clear link between welfare expansion, mass cooptation, and authoritarian-regime survival.

ISBN: 9798522946647Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Political science.
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Authoritarian survival

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