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June 20, 2026Open Access

The Sustainment and Tipping Point of Public Goods in Multi-Ethnic Authoritarian States

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YZYinghui ZhouUniversity of Chicago

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Randomized trial examines public goods provision in authoritarian states, indicating potential instability post-2009.

Key Points

  • The research aims to understand when and why authoritarian states provide public goods and the factors that lead to the cessation of such provision.
  • Analyzed county-level data from China between 2004 and 2018.
  • Employed instrumental variable design to explore the impact of the regional ethnic autonomy system.
  • Investigated the correlation between public goods provision and ethnic conflicts.
  • Public goods provision was positively affected by the regional ethnic autonomy system from 2004 to 2009.
  • This positive impact ceased to be significant after 2010, coinciding with ethnic conflicts around 2009.
  • Post-2009, the central government discontinued preferential public goods distribution to ethnic regions.

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Yinghui Zhou (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a36324adb0793dc1a538ecahttps://doi.org/10.6082/a5nkg-eze48
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