Will China become democratic? : elite, class and regime transition

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Will China become democratic? : elite, class and regime transition

Zheng Yongnian

(Politics & international relations)

New York : Eastern Universities Press : East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-358) and index

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Description

This book takes a close look at major issues about China's democratisation, highlighting main barriers to democratisation and providing key angles to understanding China's great difficulties in making democratic progress. The author examines the possible linkages between elite, class and regime transition in China, and maintains that China's democratic development needs to be understood in the context of state-society relations, all the while emphasising that class power is playing an increasingly significant role in China's elite politics and the people's struggle for democracy.

Table of Contents

  • Development and Democracy: Are They Compatible in China?
  • From Rule by Law to Rule of Law? A Realistic View of China's Legal Development
  • China's Civilisational Burden: Implications for Democracy
  • Will China Become More Democratic? A Realistic View of China's Democratization
  • Political Incrementalism: Lessons and Experience
  • Power and Agenda: Jiang Zemin's New Political Initiatives
  • The Politics of Power Succession in the Post-Deng Era
  • Elite Politics From Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao: Greater Institutionalization?
  • Ideological Decline, the Rise of an Interest-Based Social Order, and the Demise of Communism in China
  • Technocratic Leadership, Private Entrepreneurship, and Party Transformation
  • The Party, Class, and Democracy in China
  • Regime Change in China. READERSHIP: Political analysts, policymakers, and those interested in politics and China studies.

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