Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
Yoshikazu Kato examines how the CCP has assured its own legitimacy by balancing the tools of political stability, economic growth, social justice and human rights since its foundation.Containing multiple interviews and conversations with ...
Ernst B. Haas , Nationalism , Liberalism , and Progress : The Rise and Decline of Nationalism ( Ithaca , N.Y .: Cornell University Press , 1997 ) , vii . 2. Liah Greenfeld , Nationalism : Five Roads to Modernity ( Cambridge , Mass .
This collection of articles from the Journal of Democracy considers the prospects for democracy in China.
Jiwei Ci argues that the tensions between a largely democratic society and an undemocratic political system will trigger a crisis of legitimacy, compelling the Communist Party to become agents of democratic change—or collapse.
While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized.
Not exactly a “looking back” retrospective nor a typical commemorative work, this book harbors a more forward prospecting approach with 13 substantive chapters yielding informed analysis and insightful interpretations of various key ...
Keping Yu. 7/. Citizenship and Institutional Change at the Global Age: he New Migration Movement in Chin, he major changes to Chinese society since reform and ope )80s has been the influx of rural migrants to townships and ( c circles ...
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....
Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their ...
This book provides a likely blow-by-blow account of how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and how a new democracy will be born.