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Outsourcing repression : everyday state power in contemporary China /

"How do states coercive citizens into compliance and minimize backlash at the same time? Outsourcing Repression portrays state engagement of nonstate actors-violent street gangsters and nonviolent grassroots brokers-to coerce and mobilize the masses for state pursuits in a manner that reduces r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ong, Lynette H. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Political persecution > China.
Social control > China.
Government, Resistance to > China.
Power (Social sciences) > China.
Urbanization > Political aspects > China.
Gangs > Political aspects > China.
China > Politics and government > 2002-
Urbanization.
Répression politique > Chine.
Contrôle social > Chine.
Résistance au gouvernement > Chine.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Chine.
Urbanisation > Aspect politique > Chine.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Asia.
HISTORY.
Comparative Politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Geopolitics.
Government, Resistance to
Political persecution
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Social control
Urbanization > Political aspects
China
Since 2002
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Bulldozers, violent thugs, and nonviolent brokers
  • The theory : state power, repression, and implications for development
  • Outsourcing violence : everyday repression via thugs-for-hire
  • Case studies : thugs-for-hire, repression, and mobilization
  • Networks of state infrastructural power : brokerage, state penetration, and mobilization
  • Brokers in harmonious demolition : mass mobilizers, mediators, and huangniu
  • Comparative context : South Korea and India.