How China's Participatory Institution Designed to Increase Regime Legitimacy Backfires

• In Event: Political Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

While existing studies mostly argue that participatory institutions contribute to authoritarian resilience, findings of this study suggest that these half-hearted institutions hurt autocratic stability in the long run through decreasing government support and increasing demand for political accountability.

Author

• Tongtong Zhang, Stanford University