Explaining Activity in Authoritarian Assemblies: Evidence from China

Wiebrecht, Felix ORCID: 0000-0002-9159-5024 (2022) Explaining Activity in Authoritarian Assemblies: Evidence from China. JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 22 (3). pp. 435-455.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jea.2022.19

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Who attempts to influence policymaking through authoritarian assemblies and why are some delegates considerably more active in doing so than others? Drawing on original data from provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences (PPCCs) in China, this study adopts a delegate-centered perspective and develops a theory of delegates’ activity in authoritarian assemblies. It argues that delegates’ activity can be explained by a combination of both cooptation theory and an understanding of delegates’ position within the authoritarian regime and hierarchy. The results highlight that core elites with more direct means of influencing policymaking will forego assemblies. Yet, peripheral elites lack other institutional channels of access to decision-makers and have to voice their demands in authoritarian legislatures. This study highlights the need for disaggregating groups of actors in authoritarian politics and offers an alternative view of cooptation particularly relevant for closed authoritarian regimes.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	authoritarianism, legislature, China, cooptation, institutions
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2023 16:00
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2023 16:00
DOI:	10.1017/jea.2022.19
Open Access URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177127