How Local Decentralization Contributes to Nation-State Building: Rethinking Ethnic Local Autonomy in Post-1949 China

• In Event: Governing the Chinese Periphery: Hong Kong and Minority Areas

Brief Overview

By focusing on China, I study the granting of ethnic local autonomy in the context of authoritarian delegation. Ethnic local autonomy allows the central leader to control subnational elites while countering his inner-circle rivals.

Author

• Chao-yo Cheng, London School of Economics and Political Science