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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/legitimating-state-power-and-s
 ocial-policies-comparative-study-early-modern-england-tokugawa/
SUMMARY:Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study o
 f Early Modern England\, Tokugawa Japan\, and Qing China
DESCRIPTION:\n	He Wenkai (Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\
 , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting 
 Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Daniel Ziblatt (Professor of Government\, Ha
 rvard University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Ce
 nter for Chinese Studies\, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Stud
 ies\n\n\n	This talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a c
 rucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of
  social policies in three early modern states\, England (1550-1700)\, Japa
 n (1700-1868)\, and China (1700-1895). In all three cases\, despite their 
 distinct political institutions and histories\, states justified their mon
 opoly of coercive force through key normative terms such as public welfare
  or public good. Importantly\, such terms could also be utilized by local 
 officials\, local communities\, and even commoners to negotiate and bargai
 n with the center over the content of social policies such as poverty and 
 famine relief\, resolution of cross-regional conflicts of interests\, and 
 infrastructure building. This negotiation process was fundamental to the s
 mooth operation of early modern states with quite weak central institution
 al capacities. Moreover\, it also provided a limited political space for c
 ommon people to participate in state politics through peaceful collective 
 petitions.
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