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The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into included and excluded groups, creating particularistic citizenship through granting some groups access to rights and redistribution while restricting or denying access to others. This book asks: why would a government with powerful tools of exclusion expand access to socioeconomic citizenship rights? And when autocratic systems expand redistribution, whom do they choose to include?

In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship, Samantha A. Vortherms examines the crucial case of Chinawhere 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. Vortherms shows how local governments explicitly manipulate local citizenship membership not only to ensure

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      Publisher: MK - Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/15/2024
      ISBN13: 9781503640184, 978-1503640184
      ISBN10: 1503640183

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      Book Synopsis

      The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into included and excluded groups, creating particularistic citizenship through granting some groups access to rights and redistribution while restricting or denying access to others. This book asks: why would a government with powerful tools of exclusion expand access to socioeconomic citizenship rights? And when autocratic systems expand redistribution, whom do they choose to include?

      In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship, Samantha A. Vortherms examines the crucial case of Chinawhere 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. Vortherms shows how local governments explicitly manipulate local citizenship membership not only to ensure

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