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Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations

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  • Jude Howell
  • Regina Enjuto Martinez
  • Yuanyuan Qu

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In 2013 the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party adopted a nationwide policy to contract out welfare services to social organizations. This presented the Party/state with a conundrum: how best to foster service‐oriented social organizations whilst retaining control over politically sensitive groups. Using a Foucauldian framework of analysis, this article explores the rationalities and technologies of statecraft deployed to navigate this tension. It argues that contracting welfare services is a form of governmentality linked to economic efficiency, welfare provision and social stability, requiring subtle ways of governing society. In implementing this policy, the Party/state seeks to foster a service‐oriented civil society and stymie rights‐based and politically sensitive groups.

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  • Jude Howell & Regina Enjuto Martinez & Yuanyuan Qu, 2021. "Technologies of Authoritarian Statecraft in Welfare Provision: Contracting Services to Social Organizations," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 52(6), pages 1418-1444, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:52:y:2021:i:6:p:1418-1444
    DOI: 10.1111/dech.12677
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