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dc.contributor.advisorPerry, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.advisorKing, Garyen_US
dc.contributor.authorPan, Jenniferen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-17T16:51:53Z
dash.embargo.terms2017-05-01en_US
dc.date.created2015-05en_US
dc.date.issued2015-03-30en_US
dc.date.submitted2015en_US
dc.identifier.citationPan, Jennifer. 2015. Buying Inertia: Preempting Social Disorder With Selective Welfare Provision in Urban China. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467174
dc.description.abstractA considerable number of welfare programs and social policies are adopted by authoritarian regimes, but we know relatively little about what shapes the pattern of redistribution in the absence of electoral competition. This dissertation demonstrates that in authoritarian regimes like China, selective welfare provision is used to preempt disruptions to social order when the regime can obtain information about the private preferences of individuals. For China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (Dibao) program, threats of collective action cause governments to be more responsive to applicants for Dibao, individuals who have greater potential to disrupt social order are more likely to be recipients of benefits, and benefits are distributed before time periods when disruptions are expected to occur and in localities where the threat of disruptions is a greater concern. Contrary to previous understandings, information enables welfare benefits to be targeted at specific individuals, and provision is shaped by a fear of social disorder, even when disorder does not pose a direct threat to the survival of the regime.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGovernmenten_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dash.licenseLAAen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Science, Generalen_US
dc.titleBuying Inertia: Preempting Social Disorder With Selective Welfare Provision in Urban Chinaen_US
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_US
dash.depositing.authorPan, Jenniferen_US
dc.date.available2017-05-01T07:31:31Z
thesis.degree.date2015en_US
thesis.degree.grantorGraduate School of Arts & Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDominguez, Jorge I.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHall, Peter A.en_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentGovernmenten_US
dash.identifier.vireohttp://etds.lib.harvard.edu/gsas/admin/view/172en_US
dc.description.keywordsChina; Welfare; Social Order; Information Gatheringen_US
dash.author.emailpan.jennifer@gmail.comen_US
dc.data.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29438en_US
dash.identifier.drsurn-3:HUL.DRS.OBJECT:25164181en_US
dash.contributor.affiliatedPan, Jennifer


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