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07-02-2019 | Book Review

Rory Truex, Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China

(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 213pp. $34.99

Author: Greg Distelhorst

Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science | Issue 2/2019

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Why do nondemocracies have democratic-looking political institutions? We can observe parliamentary proceedings in countries like Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Cuba. This dissonance—between political systems clearly designed to inhibit political competition and institutions like legislatures, elections, and opposition parties—has provoked a rich body of research into authoritarian institutions over the last two decades. …

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Making Autocracy Work summarizes the burgeoning literature on authoritarian legislatures and alternative theoretical perspectives on pages 40–42.

Dimitrov, M.K. 2015. Internal government assessments of the quality of governance in China. Studies in Comparative International Development 50 (1): 50–72 Looking beyond China, he makes similar arguments based on archival research from the Soviet Union and Bulgaria Union.CrossRef

Dimitrov, M.K. 2014. Tracking Public Opinion Under Authoritarianism: The Case of the Soviet Union During the Brezhnev Era. Russian History 41: 329–353.CrossRef

Dimitrov, M.K. 2014. What the party wanted to know: Citizen complaints as a “barometer of public opinion” in communist Bulgaria. East European Politics and Societies 28 (2): 271–295.CrossRef

Manion, M. 2015. Information for autocrats: Representation in Chinese local congresses. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef

Lorentzen, P.L. 2013. Regularizing rioting: Permitting public protest in an authoritarian regime. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8 (2): 127–158.CrossRef

Lorentzen, P. 2017. Designing Contentious Politics in Post-1989 China. Modern China 43 (5): 459–493.CrossRef

Truex, R. 2017. Consultative authoritarianism and its limits. Comparative Political Studies 50 (3): 329–361.CrossRef

Dimitrov 2014. See also Distelhorst, G. and Hou, Y. 2017. Constituency service under nondemocratic rule: Evidence from China. The Journal of Politics, 79(3), 1024–1040.

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Manion’s (2015) Survey research on local congresses suggests that many Chinese citizens are paying little attention to People’s Congress deputies who serve at the local level. However, the annual political theater around China’s National People’s Congress is hard to miss.

Title: Rory Truex, Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 213pp. $34.99
Author: Greg Distelhorst
Publication date: 07-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1080-6954
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6357
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-018-09601-y

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