Dongshu Liu
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View article: Curbing Elite Capture or Enhancing Resources: Recentralizing Local Environmental Enforcement in China
Curbing Elite Capture or Enhancing Resources: Recentralizing Local Environmental Enforcement in China Open
Decentralization is believed to ensure better environmental governance. However, recent studies have shown that some governments recentralize local enforcement to increase the effectiveness of policy implementation. Under what conditions i…
View article: Cooptation without opposition: government response in the authoritarian legislature in China
Cooptation without opposition: government response in the authoritarian legislature in China Open
Cooptation is widely applied to study authoritarian legislatures, but it is often used to identify and placate the opposition groups. For one-party authoritarian regimes in which the hardcore opposition groups are not represented in the le…
View article: Replication Data for Policy Influence of Delegates in Authoritarian Legislatures: Evidence from China
Replication Data for Policy Influence of Delegates in Authoritarian Legislatures: Evidence from China Open
Replication Data for Policy Influence of Delegates in Authoritarian Legislatures: Evidence from China, published in Political Research Quarterly
View article: Public Opinion Backlash Against China’s International Expansion
Public Opinion Backlash Against China’s International Expansion Open
In recent years, China has attempted to expand its international power by initiating projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This paper scrutinizes the potential obstacles to China’s expansion from a public opinion perspective…
View article: The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China
The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China Open
This project explores how authoritarian regimes can meet the demands of both the ruling coalition and the public from a perspective of distributional politics. This challenge is particularly severe since authoritarian regimes face increasi…