The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China

By Dingxin Zhao. 2009

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Lying or Believing? Measuring Preference Falsification From a Political Purge in China (2016, background): “…existing studies emphasize the role of economic performance in sustaining regime support, we highlight that, at least in the Chinese context, moral and political performance are equally salient, if not in fact more important, considerations in people’s assessment of regime legitimacy (Zhao, 2009).”
• Does Performance Matter? Evaluating Political Selection Along the Chinese Administrative Ladder (2018, background): “Although GDP is most commonly associated with the argument of “performance legitimacy” (e.g., Montinola, Qian, & Weingast, 1995; Zhao, 2009; Zhu, 2011), studies have shown that fiscal revenue is a crucial indicator of the Chinese cadre evaluation system (T. Chen & Kung, 2016; Ong, 2012).”