Cities and Stability

This title examines the threats that large cities pose to authoritarian regime survival and the ways that regimes respond to those threats, particularly focusing on China's management of urbanization through its household registration (hukou) system.

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Urban Bias: A Faustian Bargain
Chapter 3: Cities, Redistribution, and Regime Survival
Chapter 4: China's Loophole to the Faustian Bargain of Urban Bias
Chapter 5: The Fiscal Shift: Migration, Instability, and Redistribution
Chapter 6: Return to Sender: Hukou, Stimulus, and the Great Recession
Chapter 7: Under Pressure: Urban Bias and External Forces
Chapter 8: Conclusion
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