Grassroots Participation and Repression under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping
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Fu, Diana
Distelhorst, Greg
Date Issued
January 2018
Journal
China Journal
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University of Chicago Press
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Fu, Diana and Greg Distelhorst. "Grassroots Participation and Repression under Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping." China Journal 79 (January 2018): 100-122 © 2017 Australian National University
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Abstract
This study examines changes in grassroots participation and repression under the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Under Xi, the Party-state has launched political campaigns against a range of grassroots activists and organizations. This entails a shift in state repression from fragmentation to consolidation, and it has resulted in less room for contentious participation. However, institutionalized political participation—activities by ordinary people aimed at changing government behavior through official channels—has persisted. The Hu administration presided over the development of new institutions of public participation, and there is little evidence for their decay. Despite important breaks from the past under Xi, there are noteworthy continuities in the institutions that enable grassroots participation.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1086/694299
