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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    10 June 2025
    12 June 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009355643
    9781009355636
    9781009355674
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355643
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.46kg, 214 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.314kg, 214 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Beyond Coercion offers a new perspective on mechanisms of social control practiced by authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the Chinese state, Alexsia T. Chan presents an original theory and concept of political atomization, which explains how the state maintains social control and entrenches structural inequality. Chan investigates why migrant workers in China still lack access to urban public services despite national directives to incorporate them into cities, reported worker shortages, and ongoing labor unrest. Through a meticulous analysis of the implementation of policies said to expand workers' rights, she shows how these policies often end up undermining their claims to benefits. The book argues that local governments provide public services for migrants using a process of political individualization, which enables the state to exercise control beyond coercion by atomizing those who might otherwise mobilize against it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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