Dan Mattingly’s The Art of Political Control in China in the New York Review of Books

Assistant Professor Daniel Mattingly’s book The Art of Political Control in China is reviewed in the New York Review of Books this month.

Abstract:
“When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China’s authoritarian state controls protest and implements ambitious policies from sweeping urbanization schemes that have displaced millions to family planning initiatives like the one-child policy. Daniel C. Mattingly argues that China’s remarkable state capacity is not simply a product of coercive institutions…”