Grand Mediation (GM) is a new conflict management mechanism initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to cope with rapidly growing social conflict and maintain social stability. This article examines how GM operates in an urban grassroots environment and discusses its advantages for...

By examining the origins of Macao's 2014-Anti-Retirement Protest, this paper intends to answer whether Macao encounters governance crisis just like Hong Kong. Through a careful comparison, it concludes that Macao and Hong Kong are unlikely to follow the same political development trajectory, as...

The present study examines preferences related to democracy and their spillover effects on political trust and political participation through a social survey with Macau’s university students. In contrast with conventional measurements that ask about attitudes on democracy in abstract terms,...

A general overview of Macau's political economy is first provided in order to give readers the background knowledge of Macau. The introduction then explain why “Las Vegas in Asian” and “Special Administration Region under the ‘One Country, Two Systems'”, the two common descriptions of...

What makes China as a durable authoritarian regime? Unlike most previous studies that focus on one single factor to explain the puzzle, this paper proposes an alternative interpretation and argues that the resilience of China’s authoritarian rule is the outcome of the combination of the...