Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China
Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China
- November 30, 2024
- Samantha Vortherms, poli sci, examines the crucial case of China in this podcast with New Books Network
In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China (Stanford UP, 2024), Samantha A. Vortherms examines the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou)—and uncovers how autocrats use such institutions to create particularistic membership in citizenship. … Samantha Vortherms is an assistant professor at University of California, Irvine's Department of Political Science.
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