Peter Sandby-Thomas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Sandby-Thomas plays a role.
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2014 Chapter 2. ‘Stability overwhelms everything’: Analysing the legitimating effect of the stability discourse since 1989 Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 47–76 | Article
This chapter examines how the Chinese Communist Party has employed the discourse of stability to legitimate its authority since 1989. At the theoretical level, the Weberian understanding of legitimation is situated within the strategic-relational approach in order to better conceptualize the role… read more