Tang, W: Populist Authoritarianism

Chapter 1 CHINESE POLITICAL CULTURE AND REGIME SUSTAINABILITY; Introduction; Why Does Political Culture Matter?; Mass Line: the Origin of the Populist Authoritarian Political Culture; Primitive Accumulation of Social Capital in China; Political Culture in Post-Mao China; The Plan of the Book; Political support: local vs. center; Regime stability and national identity; Social capital; Political trust in China and Taiwan; Protest and regime sustainability; Labor dispute resolution; Political trust: an experimental study; Populist Authoritarianism: A Theoretical Discussion; Using Survey Data to Study Political Change in China; Chapter 2 AUTHORITARIAN REGIME SUSTAINABILITY; The Coming Collapse of China: How Soon?; Modernization and democracy; Regime crisis; Regime durability; Horizontal vs. vertical supports; How Satisfied and Happy Are the Chinese?; Government Dissatisfaction and Life Dissatisfaction; Public Anger, Political Action and Democratic Change; Conclusions; Chapter 3 NATIONALISM AND REGIME SUSTAINABILITY; Theories of Nationalism; Nationalism in China; Sources of Chinese Nationalism; The Political Consequences of Chinese Nationalism; Conclusions; Chapter 4 INTERPERSONAL TRUST AND REGIME SUSTAINABILITY; The Puzzle; Interpersonal Trust and Democracy; Origins of Interpersonal Trust; Confucian Tradition; Socialist Legacy; Economic Growth and Marketization; Findings I: Classification of Interpersonal Trust; Three Types of Interpersonal Trust; Three Types of Trust and General Interpersonal Trust; Findings II Trust and Political Attitudes and Behavior; Conclusions; Chapter 5 POLITICAL TRUST IN CHINA AND TAIWAN; What is political trust?; Competing theories of political trust; Political mobilization; Economic satisfaction; Internal efficacy; External efficacy; Culture; Comparing China and Taiwan: Methods and Data; Measuring and comparing political trust in China and Taiwan; Measuring and comparing the sources of political trust in China and Taiwan; Multivariate

Wenfang Tang is Professor of Political Science, Chair of Chinese Culture and Institutions, and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Iowa