Christian Göbel

Bio: Christian Göbel is an academic researcher from University of Vienna. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Democratization. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 48 publications receiving 420 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Göbel include University of Toronto & Heidelberg University.

Uneven Policy Implementation In Rural China

Abstract: Several theories are employed and analyzed to study the central-local relations existing in China, which in turn helps in understanding the unevenness that exists in the implementation of different policies in the rural parts of the country. The applicability and effectiveness of the application of different measures for enhancing the situation are also discussed.

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Abstract: 1 Introduction: Political Innovation without Democratization 2 Social Control, Social Fragmentation, and the Reimposition of State Power 3 Enhancing Infrastructural Power: Shequ Organization 4 Legitimating Narratives 5 Shequ Governance 6 New Schemes of Social Security: Urban Neighbourhood Communities as Institutions of Output Legitimacy 7 Attitudes 8 Conclusion

Authoritarian Consolidation

Abstract: Authoritarian consolidation is conceptualised as a deliberate state project to improve a regime's capabilities for governing society. It is hypothesised that the durability of an authoritarian regime increases to the extent that regime elites manage to substitute coercion for governing by organisation, regulation and the management of discourses. This provides them with a broader – and less costly – range of options to address social problems and regime challenges than merely intimidating or cracking down on opponents.

The Information Dilemma: How ICT Strengthen or Weaken Authoritarian Rule

Abstract: The Information Dilemma: How ICT Strengthen or Weaken Authoritarian Rule This paper introduces a model that links ICT management to the consolidation of autocratic regimes. At its centre is the hypothesis that ICT can help both to undermine and to sustain autocratic rule. A second hypothesis is that the demise of an autocracy can be prevented, or at least delayed, if autocrats actively use ICT to enhance surveillance, accountability, indoctrination, and participation. This means that controlling ICT is not (only) a zero-sum game that is played between activists and censors. Perhaps more important is the role of ICT in the consolidation of an autocracy. Hence, popular access to ICT might or might not help undermine authoritarian rule, but if skillfully used, will definitely make a regime more resilient. The plausibility of the model will be illustrated by means of a brief comparison of two contrasting cases, China and Myanmar.

Sustaining Collective Action in Urbanizing China

Abstract: In recent years there has been a proliferation of scholarship on protests and other forms of collective action in China. Important insights have been gained into how conflicts between social groups and local governments begin, which strategies and instruments protesters apply, and under which circumstances protests are likely to succeed or fail. However, comparatively little is known about the mobilizing structures and how such collective action can be sustained over a long period of time, in some instances over several years. Such perseverance would be remarkable even in a democracy, but it is more so in an authoritarian system where the risks of participating in collective action are higher and the chances to succeed much smaller. This article compares the development of public protests in two research locations and identifies four factors instrumental to overcoming the formidable challenges of sustaining collective action in China: the continuing existence of substantial grievances; the re-activation of strong social ties; the presence of unifying frames; and an adaptive protest leadership. The comparison shows that the last factor is particularly crucial: while the two villages were similar in all other respects, leadership in village B was far more adaptive than in village A, which goes a long way towards explaining why collective action could be sustained twice as long in village B.

Informal institutions and comparative politics: a research agenda

Abstract: Mainstream comparative research on political institutions focuses primarily on formal rules. Yet in many contexts, informal institutions, ranging from bureaucratic and legislative norms to clientelism and patrimonialism, shape even more strongly political behavior and outcomes. Scholars who fail to consider these informal rules of the game risk missing many of the most important incentives and constraints that underlie political behavior. In this article we develop a framework for studying informal institutions and integrating them into comparative institutional analysis. The framework is based on a typology of four patterns of formal-informal institutional interaction: complementary, accommodating, competing, and substitutive. We then explore two issues largely ignored in the literature on this subject: the reasons and mechanisms behind the emergence of informal institutions, and the nature of their stability and change. Finally, we consider challenges in research on informal institutions, including issues of identification, measurement, and comparison.Gretchen Helmke's book Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Steven Levitsky is the author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective and is currently writing a book on competitive authoritarian regimes in the post–Cold War era. The authors thank the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame for generously sponsoring conferences on informal institutions. The authors also gratefully acknowledge comments from Jorge Dominguez, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Dennis Galvan, Goran Hyden, Jack Knight, Lisa Martin, Hillel Soifer, Benjamin Smith, Susan Stokes, Maria Victoria Murillo, and Kurt Weyland, as well as three anonymous reviewers and the editors of Perspectives on Politics.

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中国城市化大转型的一种图景 评The Great Urban Transformation：Politics of Land and Property in China

Abstract: Hsing,You-tien（2010）.The Great Urban Transformation：Politics of Land and Property in China.Oxford：Oxford University Press.272 PP.继工业化、市场化之后,城市化成为推动中国经济社会发展的巨大引擎。中国正以每天消失100个村子的速度,快步进入城镇化（褚朝新,2012）。如何解释和评价这种开发型城市化模式,抑或说由城市化主导的经济发展模式,及其对中国政治经济格局的深刻影响,是近年来学者广泛讨论的话题。