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Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in authoritarian environments and then tests the theory through a detailed inquiry into the dynamics of China's National People's Congress (NPC, the country's highest formal government institution). Rory Truex argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engineering a system of 'representation within bounds' in the NPC, encouraging deputies to reflect the needs of their constituents, but only for non-sensitive issues. This allows the regime to address citizen grievances while avoiding incendiary political activism. Data on NPC deputy backgrounds and behaviors is used to explore the nature of representation and incentives in this constrained system. The book challenges existing conceptions of representation, authoritarianism, and the future of the Chinese state. Consultative institutions like the NPC are key to making autocracy work.

Authoritarianism --- Political science --- Authority --- China --- Politics and government. --- China. --- Quan guo ren min dai biao da hui (China) --- 全国人民代表大会 (China) --- China (People's Republic of China, 1949- ). --- Vsekitaĭskoe sobranie narodnykh predstaviteleĭ (China) --- All-China People's Congress --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo quan guo ren min dai biao da hui --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui --- 中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会 --- National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China --- Nationaler Volkskongress (China) --- NPC --- N.P.C. --- VSNP --- Representative government and representation --- Politics and government

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Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party, Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision of government agencies.

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