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Introduction

Modalities of State Building and Institution Building: Bureaucracies, Campaigns, and Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2019

Julia C. Strauss
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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After presenting the fundamentals of Weberian-institutionalist and Gramsciian-culturalist approaches to understanding the state, this introduction suggests that it is possible to combine the two. Focusing on the unusually successful cases of state building of the “revolutionary” People’s Republic of China in Sunan and the “conservative” Republic of China in Taiwan in the early 1950s, it suggests that the “hows” of state building policy implementation are as important as the “whats.” Both regimes resorted to overlapping and shifting modalities of bureaucratic rule making and campaign mobilization, differing substantively in how these repertoires were performed and communicated to citizens at large.

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State Formation in China and Taiwan
Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance
, pp. 1 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Introduction
  • Julia C. Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: State Formation in China and Taiwan
  • Online publication: 13 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569163.001
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  • Introduction
  • Julia C. Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: State Formation in China and Taiwan
  • Online publication: 13 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569163.001
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  • Introduction
  • Julia C. Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: State Formation in China and Taiwan
  • Online publication: 13 October 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569163.001
Available formats
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