Steve Hess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5231626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Hess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Hess |
| SIGNATURE | HESS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Hustlers and dynasties
Democratic backsliding in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of China’s development assistance
The article observes 19 hybrid regimes in sub-Saharan from 2005 to 2014 and examines the influence of each country's level of economic development, short-term macroeconomic performance, and ratio of Chinese to Western official financing on the trajectory of its political development, with some regimes making improvements in the quality of democratic governance, others backsliding into greater authoritarianism, and still others remaining largely s…
The Diffusion of Contention in Contemporary China
The article examines a wave of teachers' strikes that spread across China during the autumn, winter, and spring of 2014-15. Looking at event data and social media coverage of the wave, it discusses how social media enabled protesters to carry out media-savvy campaigns that involved both online and offline tactics, draw inspiration from claimants in faraway protest sites, and emulate tactics, slogans, and symbols from other locations. The episode …
Decentralized Meritocracy
The article explains the ongoing resilience of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime as a dynamic process of continual institutional adaptation of the CCP’s threat-management system, which simultaneously must address vertical (popular) and horizontal (internal) challenges. The author finds that the CCP central leadership’s current top-down intervention into subnational governments, featuring Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, reform of loc…
The Flight of the Affluent in Contemporary China
This article investigates why a growing number of wealthy Chinese, the primary beneficiaries of China’s economic rise, have opted to exit China, through both capital flight and emigration, over the last decade, instead of using voice, engaging the political process, and leveraging their power and influence to effect policy change
Charting the Impact of Subnational Actors in China’s Foreign Relations
This article discusses the efforts of a Chinese subnational government, Guangxi Province’s Shanglin County, to support local residents as they participated in galamsey, a local reference for unregistered artisanal gold mining in Ghana. This resulted in a diplomatic crisis that complicated Sino–Ghanaian relations and threatened Beijing’s efforts to access Ghana’s energy resources
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience in Regional Protest Waves
This article takes a comparative look at two historically and geographically interconnected waves of large-scale unrest: the colour revolutions of the post-communist region during the 2000s and the Arab uprisings of 2011. From this vantage point, it considers the power of alternative approaches in explaining the resilience or breakdown of autocratic regimes in the face of exogenously inspired protests. These explanations centre on the destabilizi…
Non-Interference 2.0
China's non-interference policy has come under scrutiny in regards to its growing and deepening relations in Africa. The policy has come to represent an about-face from conditional assistance and investment associated with the Washington Consensus. Although often well received in much of the global South, this policy has drawn a lot of criticism from the West and others. These commentators have perceived non-interference as an opportunistic and o…
Foreign Media Coverage and Protest Outcomes in China
By looking at the case of the 2011 Wukan rebellion in Guangdong Province, the following article explores the role played by foreign media in influencing the protest's ultimate outcome: an intervention from above by provincial authorities in favour of the villagers. Placing Wukan into a four-level model incorporating local, provincial, national, and international dimensions, this article considers how Wukan might serve as a model for contention th…
Charting the Roots of Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa
In this article the authors conduct focused case studies on Zambia and Ghana to investigate the increasingly diverse popular reactions to Chinese engagement throughout the region of sub-Saharan Africa. In this effort they challenge the existing binary exploitation/opportunity paradigm through which growing Chinese engagement in sub-Saharan Africa is often analyzed. Instead, they propose an alternative framework, which centers less on the positive…
From the Arab Spring to the Chinese Winter
Following the collapse of long-lived dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011, many analysts have turned their attention to China to identify possible stirrings of revolution. Of course, whereas efforts spiraled into revolutionary outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa, the Chinese Jasmine Revolution stimulated little domestic interest and failed to materialize into a popular movement. Beginning with the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, …
Environmental Protest and the Greening of the State
Environmental social movements emerged at the national level in communist Poland, but not in the People's Republic of China. One little-understood reason for this difference is that the Chinese communist regime is far more decentralized than its counterpart in communist Poland was. Claimants in China tend to organize their collective actions around specific, localized issues rather than focus on a common, unifying target that might facilitate nat…
Beyond the Rhetoric
The following paper examines the historical origins and development of China’s advocacy of the principle of noninterference in its African foreign policy and suggests that in spite of its consistent rhetorical support for noninterference over the last fifty years, the relevance of the principle in shaping Beijing’s foreign policy decisions has varied as its pragmatic interests have shifted. China’s post-Maoist leadership, in the drive to win the …
Protests, Parties, and Presidential Succession
The longevity of authoritarian regimes depends on elite cohesion, skilled security forces, and carefully executed transitions, even in the face of opposition movements with external support
Coming to terms with neopatrimonialism
The author examines how patrimonial forms of domination, as conceived in a Weberian sense, came to pervade the formal bureaucratic apparatuses developed under both Soviet Marxist–Leninist (from the late 1970s) and American-coalition liberal designs (since 2001), creating hybrid states defined by neopatrimonialism. Drawing lessons from the survival and eventual collapse of the Najibullah regime following the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet forces, the a…
Nail-Houses, Land Rights, and Frames of Injustice on China's Protest Landscape
This article highlights the way in which Chinese protestors resisting home eviction and demolition have begun to develop innovative, media-savvy tactics for winning public sympathy for their causes and framing their plights as unjust, and considers the political implications of this trend
Deliberative Institutions as Mechanisms for Managing Social Unrest
By many indicators, 2009 should be a challenging year for the People's Republic of China. The global financial crisis sapped demand for exports and contributed to mass factory closures and layoffs, leaving an estimated 20 million migrant workers likely to lose their jobs in the year and exacerbating already wide urban/rural, east/west, and rich/poor divisions within Chinese society. (1) Combined with the important anniversaries of the 1919 May Fo…
Dividing and conquering the shop floor
This work examines the labour export programme of south-west Xinjiang that brought Uyghur migrant workers to the Early Light Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong and places it in the context of capitalist-working class divisions emerging in contemporary China, where clashes between managers and workers have become frequent occurrences, and increasing worker solidarity and growing labour activism have become a leading concern of the Communist Party …
Nail-Houses, Land Rights, and Frames of Injustice on China's Protest Landscape
This article highlights the way in which Chinese protestors resisting home eviction and demolition have begun to develop innovative, media-savvy tactics for winning public sympathy for their causes and framing their plights as unjust, and considers the political implications of this trend
From the Arab Spring to the Chinese Winter
Following the collapse of long-lived dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011, many analysts have turned their attention to China to identify possible stirrings of revolution. Of course, whereas efforts spiraled into revolutionary outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa, the Chinese Jasmine Revolution stimulated little domestic interest and failed to materialize into a popular movement. Beginning with the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, …
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience in Regional Protest Waves
This article takes a comparative look at two historically and geographically interconnected waves of large-scale unrest: the colour revolutions of the post-communist region during the 2000s and the Arab uprisings of 2011. From this vantage point, it considers the power of alternative approaches in explaining the resilience or breakdown of autocratic regimes in the face of exogenously inspired protests. These explanations centre on the destabilizi…
Charting the Roots of Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa
In this article the authors conduct focused case studies on Zambia and Ghana to investigate the increasingly diverse popular reactions to Chinese engagement throughout the region of sub-Saharan Africa. In this effort they challenge the existing binary exploitation/opportunity paradigm through which growing Chinese engagement in sub-Saharan Africa is often analyzed. Instead, they propose an alternative framework, which centers less on the positive…
Democratic backsliding in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of China’s development assistance
The article observes 19 hybrid regimes in sub-Saharan from 2005 to 2014 and examines the influence of each country's level of economic development, short-term macroeconomic performance, and ratio of Chinese to Western official financing on the trajectory of its political development, with some regimes making improvements in the quality of democratic governance, others backsliding into greater authoritarianism, and still others remaining largely s…
Non-Interference 2.0
China's non-interference policy has come under scrutiny in regards to its growing and deepening relations in Africa. The policy has come to represent an about-face from conditional assistance and investment associated with the Washington Consensus. Although often well received in much of the global South, this policy has drawn a lot of criticism from the West and others. These commentators have perceived non-interference as an opportunistic and o…
Dividing and conquering the shop floor
This work examines the labour export programme of south-west Xinjiang that brought Uyghur migrant workers to the Early Light Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong and places it in the context of capitalist-working class divisions emerging in contemporary China, where clashes between managers and workers have become frequent occurrences, and increasing worker solidarity and growing labour activism have become a leading concern of the Communist Party …
Charting the Impact of Subnational Actors in China’s Foreign Relations
This article discusses the efforts of a Chinese subnational government, Guangxi Province’s Shanglin County, to support local residents as they participated in galamsey, a local reference for unregistered artisanal gold mining in Ghana. This resulted in a diplomatic crisis that complicated Sino–Ghanaian relations and threatened Beijing’s efforts to access Ghana’s energy resources
Foreign Media Coverage and Protest Outcomes in China
By looking at the case of the 2011 Wukan rebellion in Guangdong Province, the following article explores the role played by foreign media in influencing the protest's ultimate outcome: an intervention from above by provincial authorities in favour of the villagers. Placing Wukan into a four-level model incorporating local, provincial, national, and international dimensions, this article considers how Wukan might serve as a model for contention th…
Beyond the Rhetoric
The following paper examines the historical origins and development of China’s advocacy of the principle of noninterference in its African foreign policy and suggests that in spite of its consistent rhetorical support for noninterference over the last fifty years, the relevance of the principle in shaping Beijing’s foreign policy decisions has varied as its pragmatic interests have shifted. China’s post-Maoist leadership, in the drive to win the …
Deliberative Institutions as Mechanisms for Managing Social Unrest
By many indicators, 2009 should be a challenging year for the People's Republic of China. The global financial crisis sapped demand for exports and contributed to mass factory closures and layoffs, leaving an estimated 20 million migrant workers likely to lose their jobs in the year and exacerbating already wide urban/rural, east/west, and rich/poor divisions within Chinese society. (1) Combined with the important anniversaries of the 1919 May Fo…
Coming to terms with neopatrimonialism
The author examines how patrimonial forms of domination, as conceived in a Weberian sense, came to pervade the formal bureaucratic apparatuses developed under both Soviet Marxist–Leninist (from the late 1970s) and American-coalition liberal designs (since 2001), creating hybrid states defined by neopatrimonialism. Drawing lessons from the survival and eventual collapse of the Najibullah regime following the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet forces, the a…
The Flight of the Affluent in Contemporary China
This article investigates why a growing number of wealthy Chinese, the primary beneficiaries of China’s economic rise, have opted to exit China, through both capital flight and emigration, over the last decade, instead of using voice, engaging the political process, and leveraging their power and influence to effect policy change
Environmental Protest and the Greening of the State
Environmental social movements emerged at the national level in communist Poland, but not in the People's Republic of China. One little-understood reason for this difference is that the Chinese communist regime is far more decentralized than its counterpart in communist Poland was. Claimants in China tend to organize their collective actions around specific, localized issues rather than focus on a common, unifying target that might facilitate nat…
Protests, Parties, and Presidential Succession
The longevity of authoritarian regimes depends on elite cohesion, skilled security forces, and carefully executed transitions, even in the face of opposition movements with external support
The Diffusion of Contention in Contemporary China
The article examines a wave of teachers' strikes that spread across China during the autumn, winter, and spring of 2014-15. Looking at event data and social media coverage of the wave, it discusses how social media enabled protesters to carry out media-savvy campaigns that involved both online and offline tactics, draw inspiration from claimants in faraway protest sites, and emulate tactics, slogans, and symbols from other locations. The episode …
Decentralized Meritocracy
The article explains the ongoing resilience of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime as a dynamic process of continual institutional adaptation of the CCP’s threat-management system, which simultaneously must address vertical (popular) and horizontal (internal) challenges. The author finds that the CCP central leadership’s current top-down intervention into subnational governments, featuring Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, reform of loc…
Deliberative Institutions as Mechanisms for Managing Social Unrest
By many indicators, 2009 should be a challenging year for the People's Republic of China. The global financial crisis sapped demand for exports and contributed to mass factory closures and layoffs, leaving an estimated 20 million migrant workers likely to lose their jobs in the year and exacerbating already wide urban/rural, east/west, and rich/poor divisions within Chinese society. (1) Combined with the important anniversaries of the 1919 May Fo…
Dividing and conquering the shop floor
This work examines the labour export programme of south-west Xinjiang that brought Uyghur migrant workers to the Early Light Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong and places it in the context of capitalist-working class divisions emerging in contemporary China, where clashes between managers and workers have become frequent occurrences, and increasing worker solidarity and growing labour activism have become a leading concern of the Communist Party …
Beyond the Rhetoric
The following paper examines the historical origins and development of China’s advocacy of the principle of noninterference in its African foreign policy and suggests that in spite of its consistent rhetorical support for noninterference over the last fifty years, the relevance of the principle in shaping Beijing’s foreign policy decisions has varied as its pragmatic interests have shifted. China’s post-Maoist leadership, in the drive to win the …
Protests, Parties, and Presidential Succession
The longevity of authoritarian regimes depends on elite cohesion, skilled security forces, and carefully executed transitions, even in the face of opposition movements with external support
Coming to terms with neopatrimonialism
The author examines how patrimonial forms of domination, as conceived in a Weberian sense, came to pervade the formal bureaucratic apparatuses developed under both Soviet Marxist–Leninist (from the late 1970s) and American-coalition liberal designs (since 2001), creating hybrid states defined by neopatrimonialism. Drawing lessons from the survival and eventual collapse of the Najibullah regime following the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet forces, the a…
Nail-Houses, Land Rights, and Frames of Injustice on China's Protest Landscape
This article highlights the way in which Chinese protestors resisting home eviction and demolition have begun to develop innovative, media-savvy tactics for winning public sympathy for their causes and framing their plights as unjust, and considers the political implications of this trend
Environmental Protest and the Greening of the State
Environmental social movements emerged at the national level in communist Poland, but not in the People's Republic of China. One little-understood reason for this difference is that the Chinese communist regime is far more decentralized than its counterpart in communist Poland was. Claimants in China tend to organize their collective actions around specific, localized issues rather than focus on a common, unifying target that might facilitate nat…
From the Arab Spring to the Chinese Winter
Following the collapse of long-lived dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011, many analysts have turned their attention to China to identify possible stirrings of revolution. Of course, whereas efforts spiraled into revolutionary outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa, the Chinese Jasmine Revolution stimulated little domestic interest and failed to materialize into a popular movement. Beginning with the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, …
Charting the Roots of Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa
In this article the authors conduct focused case studies on Zambia and Ghana to investigate the increasingly diverse popular reactions to Chinese engagement throughout the region of sub-Saharan Africa. In this effort they challenge the existing binary exploitation/opportunity paradigm through which growing Chinese engagement in sub-Saharan Africa is often analyzed. Instead, they propose an alternative framework, which centers less on the positive…
Non-Interference 2.0
China's non-interference policy has come under scrutiny in regards to its growing and deepening relations in Africa. The policy has come to represent an about-face from conditional assistance and investment associated with the Washington Consensus. Although often well received in much of the global South, this policy has drawn a lot of criticism from the West and others. These commentators have perceived non-interference as an opportunistic and o…
Foreign Media Coverage and Protest Outcomes in China
By looking at the case of the 2011 Wukan rebellion in Guangdong Province, the following article explores the role played by foreign media in influencing the protest's ultimate outcome: an intervention from above by provincial authorities in favour of the villagers. Placing Wukan into a four-level model incorporating local, provincial, national, and international dimensions, this article considers how Wukan might serve as a model for contention th…
Decentralized Meritocracy
The article explains the ongoing resilience of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime as a dynamic process of continual institutional adaptation of the CCP’s threat-management system, which simultaneously must address vertical (popular) and horizontal (internal) challenges. The author finds that the CCP central leadership’s current top-down intervention into subnational governments, featuring Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, reform of loc…
The Flight of the Affluent in Contemporary China
This article investigates why a growing number of wealthy Chinese, the primary beneficiaries of China’s economic rise, have opted to exit China, through both capital flight and emigration, over the last decade, instead of using voice, engaging the political process, and leveraging their power and influence to effect policy change
Charting the Impact of Subnational Actors in China’s Foreign Relations
This article discusses the efforts of a Chinese subnational government, Guangxi Province’s Shanglin County, to support local residents as they participated in galamsey, a local reference for unregistered artisanal gold mining in Ghana. This resulted in a diplomatic crisis that complicated Sino–Ghanaian relations and threatened Beijing’s efforts to access Ghana’s energy resources
Sources of Authoritarian Resilience in Regional Protest Waves
This article takes a comparative look at two historically and geographically interconnected waves of large-scale unrest: the colour revolutions of the post-communist region during the 2000s and the Arab uprisings of 2011. From this vantage point, it considers the power of alternative approaches in explaining the resilience or breakdown of autocratic regimes in the face of exogenously inspired protests. These explanations centre on the destabilizi…
The Diffusion of Contention in Contemporary China
The article examines a wave of teachers' strikes that spread across China during the autumn, winter, and spring of 2014-15. Looking at event data and social media coverage of the wave, it discusses how social media enabled protesters to carry out media-savvy campaigns that involved both online and offline tactics, draw inspiration from claimants in faraway protest sites, and emulate tactics, slogans, and symbols from other locations. The episode …
Democratic backsliding in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of China’s development assistance
The article observes 19 hybrid regimes in sub-Saharan from 2005 to 2014 and examines the influence of each country's level of economic development, short-term macroeconomic performance, and ratio of Chinese to Western official financing on the trajectory of its political development, with some regimes making improvements in the quality of democratic governance, others backsliding into greater authoritarianism, and still others remaining largely s…
Hustlers and dynasties
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · China (14 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Development economics (9 works)