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  • Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration

  • Jennifer Fitzgerald, David Leblang, Jessica C. Teets
  • Journal:
    World Politics / Volume 66 / Issue 3 / July 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 July 2014, pp. 406-445
    Print publication:
    July 2014

  • Bilateral flows of international migrants exhibit tremendous variance both across destination countries and over time. To explain this variance, studies of international migration tend to focus on economic determinants such as income differentials or on social conditions such as the presence of coethnics in certain destination countries. The authors argue that migration is driven not solely by economic or social determinants; rather, the political environment across destinations plays a substantively large role in influencing bilateral migration flows. They test the importance of the political environment—citizenship rights and the prominence of right-wing parties—using data on migration flows from 178 origin countries into 18 destination countries over the period 1980–2006. They find, even after controlling for a variety of economic, social, policy, and international variables, that variation in political environments across time and destination plays a key role in observed patterns of international migration.

  • Introduction - Civil Society in China

  • Jessica C. Teets, Middlebury College, Vermont
  • Book:
    Civil Society under Authoritarianism
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    09 June 2014, pp 1-37
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Civil Society under Authoritarianism
  • The China Model
  • Jessica C. Teets
  • Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    09 June 2014
  • Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the general social framework, these interactions generated a process in which officials learned the benefits and disadvantages of civil society. Civil society supports local officials' efforts to provide social services and improve public policies, yet it also engages in protest and other activities that challenge social stability and development. This duality motivates local officials in China to construct a 'social management' system - known as consultative authoritarianism - to encourage the beneficial aspects and discourage the dangerous ones.

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