caa a22 4500 605455120 CHVBK 20210128100210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10602-014-9181-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10602-014-9181-z Commitment to local autonomy in non-democracies: Russia and China compared [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Krug, Alexander Libman] The aim of this paper is to investigate under which conditions non-democratic political regimes are capable of making credible commitments to maintain a certain level of local autonomy and to incentivize local bureaucrats. For this purpose, we compare two big non-democratic countries—Russia and China. While China has managed to establish a relatively stable system, with substantial decision-making rights resting with sub-national governments, in Russia relations between the center and the regions have been highly unstable and driven primarily by the extent to which central elites consolidated their power. We argue that China has been able to make credible commitments because its non-democratic rule is based on competition between vertical elite networks that span regional and central political arenas, and because the country has limited access to natural resources: these two characteristics explain the difference between the two cases we investigate. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Local autonomy nationallicence Non-democracy nationallicence Russia nationallicence China nationallicence Krug Barbara Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Libman Alexander German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP, Berlin, Germany aut Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/2(2015-06-01), 221-245 1043-4062 26:2<221 2015 26 10602 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9181-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9181-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krug Barbara Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Libman Alexander German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/2(2015-06-01), 221-245 1043-4062 26:2<221 2015 26 10602