Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Popular Accountability and Regime Resilience in Reform-Era China
UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Martin Dimitrov on the longevity of communist regimes is provided by examining their systems of popular accountability.
When:
February 26, 2010 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
Martin Dimitrov, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
Kevin O'Brien, Discussant. Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Communist autocracies have proven to be the longest-lived type of non-democratic regime. What accounts for this remarkable resilience? Traditionally, explanations have focused either on repression or on the cooptation of elites. This talk argues that the key to understanding the longevity of communist regimes is provided by examining their systems of popular accountability. In particular, the talk analyzes one specific channel for popular accountability: the citizen complaints system (letters and visits system or xinfang). Documents from the secret Eastern European communist party archives and neibu materials from China are used to analyze how citizen complaints created a channel for popular accountability that prolonged the lifespan of both the Eastern European and the Chinese communist regimes. The talk concludes by examining recent changes in the xinfang system in China and their implications for regime stability.
Cost:
Free
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