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100	1		_aCAI, Yongshun _935223
245	1	0	_aPower structure and regime resilience : _bcontentious politics in China
260			_aCambridge, UK : _bCambridge University Press, _cJuly 2008
520	3		_aAuthoritarian governments may face serious uncertainties when dealing with popular resistance because of the unpredictable consequences of making concessions or repressing opposition. However, a political system with multiple levels of authority can help reduce the uncertainties by granting conditional autonomy to lower-level authorities. Such a power structure prevents excessive repression and unconditional concessions when the priorities of different levels of authority do not match. Under this political arrangement, the central authority can avoid blame when local authorities use repression. The divided power also helps reduce the uncertainties faced by the central authority because it will then have to deal with only a very limited number of instances of resistance. Using the case of China, this article shows that divided state power has allowed the party-state to maintain social stability amid numerous instances of social unrest during the reform era
773	0	8	_tBritish journal of political science _g38, 3, p. 411-432 _dCambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, July 2008 _xISSN 00071234 _w
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998			_a20080731 _b1408^b _cTiago
998			_a20081028 _b1009^b _cZailton
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c27171 _d27171
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