{"product_id":"welfare-for-autocrats-jennifer-pan-9780190087432","title":"Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers","description":"What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or \"stability?\" In \u003cem\u003eWelfare for Autocrats\u003c\/em\u003e, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy--in this case, quelling dissent--alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety of methodologies, \u003cem\u003eWelfare for Autocrats\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the view that concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from the assumption that all tools of repression were originally designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in the case of Dibao may well backfire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Pan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190087439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190087432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Jennifer Pan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941690212607,"sku":"9780190087432","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5eaf8499-49d0-43c9-a7c0-d92c24ce97a4.jpg?v=1681454399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/welfare-for-autocrats-jennifer-pan-9780190087432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}