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Local Fiscal Constraints and Grassroots Stability: Enhancing Party Control and Supervising Law Enforcement
Local fiscal constraints have the potential to challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s continued drive for grassroots-level social...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
May 3025 min read


“Going Xianzhong Mode”: Can Local Governments Stop “Revenge Against Society” Attacks?
Indiscriminate mass attacks have been increasing in China since at least 2000, with 2024 clocking in as the bloodiest year on record....
Patricia Thornton
May 3031 min read


Local Cadres’ Inaction versus Central Control in Xi Jinping’s China
This article analyzes how central-local relations have evolved in Xi Jinping’s China from the perspective of elite politics, focusing on...
Guoguang Wu
May 3021 min read


What We Know About Public Opinion in China, and Why It Matters for Policymakers
Survey research in China has long suffered from two core problems—difficulties in obtaining reliable representative samples and...
Rory Truex
Feb 2618 min read
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