Reinforcing Authoritarianism Through Democracy: Participatory Pricing in China by Xuan Qin
English | EPUB | 2021 | 103 Pages | ISBN : 9813349557 | 1.3 MB
“This is an excellent study of a set of democratic practices, established by Chinese government, to manage the impact of the transition to a market economy on citizens and businesses: participatory pricing. Xuan Qin’s careful and methodologically wide-ranging analysis provides fascinating insight into the ways in which participatory pricing’s democratic implications are curated and limited by China’s authoritarian state. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the fuzzy boundary between democracy and authoritarianism.”
–Dr. Catherine Owen, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Exeter