Intermediate Agents in the Resistance Process: Petition Brokers and Social Governance in Contemporary China

• In Event: Mediating and Repressing Collective Action in China

Brief Overview

In this paper, we construct a three-level analytical framework consisting of political elites, intermediate agents, and petitioners. Here, we will focus our attention on the role of the intermediate agents.

Authors

• Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Academia Sinica

• Xingmiu Liao, School of Government,Sun Yat-sen University