Outputs (2)

Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations (2021)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2021). Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations. The China Quarterly, 248(S1), 244-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000746

While existing scholarship looks at the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emerging social strata and civil society, the Party's impact on its own grassroots has been largely overlooked. How does the Party manage its own grass... Read More about Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations.

The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision (2021)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2021). The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision. China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies, 36(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X211011565

How should we understand the formation of the grid management system (网格化管理) of grass-roots governance in China? In this article, I argue that the grid system is an extension of existing governance structures. Facing conflicting central messagin... Read More about The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision.