”Consultative authoritarianism” is a corporatist models or state- civil society model, combination of state- controlled mechanism with civil society self-regulation, regulatory- state idea under guidance of state. By such integration to continue protecting the minority and solve possible future problem and achieve social stability.
Chinese government has incentive to promote consultative authoritarianism is because of the after-effect of establishing civil society.
Before having civil society, residents show dissatisfaction with government services, especially for the migrant workers as they have limited accessibility to social services. Such overwhelmed dissatisfaction allows the existences of civil society to regain residents’ support.
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state control to produce civil societies’ incentives to meet state goals. Example like producing positive incentives in 1KG more’s projects which address problem of education gaps between rural and urban by distributing book and school supplies to children and update urban schools’ situation in website. Government by then have state control over 1 KG more’s project in charity Approach, i.e. as a social incubators to trained 1KG More staff skills in management, accounting and writing. Government sets grants and fund groups for this civil society to help 1 KG More expands offices in the way state preferred. Their control gives positive incentives for the civil societies to solve welfare- provision problems within the limited boundary set by government. Therefore consultative authoritarianism’s effect encourages government to expand this model …show more content…
Consultative authoritarianism encourage public participation in services and projects to help the needy, which allow people to have greater understanding in particular social problems in China, like the gap between urban and rural etc. Compare to the years when China is under idea of total Marxism, at least citizens are allowed to know what are the problem that Communist Party faced and involved in the measures to alleviate the problem. Thus the consultative authoritarianism never blocked the growth of the civil society, civil society can freely point out the social issue in China and express their opinion and set measures to tackle the problem like holding the projects to guide and correct the social growth. People are allowed to know the issues and participate in social activities, while the civil societies can address different issues to the Central government, small extend of democracy