| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
East Asia : history, politics, sociology, and culture
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East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. |
| Contents |
State-society configuration: strong state vs. weak society -- 1 Statist and societal explanations for the likelihood of a top-down transition -- 4 Hypotheses, sources, and methods -- 9 Hypotheses -- 9 Sources and methods -- 17 Plan of book -- 22 Chinese communist party and bureaucratic elite in post-Mao reform -- 29 Post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship: Effective political control over effective bureaucracy -- 31 Different approaches to post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship -- 31 The general office system -- 33 Explaining post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship -- 37 Confucian tradition and Chinese bureaucratic system -- 37 The development of leninist state system -- 43 CCP and the post-Mao reform -- 52 Bureaucratic elites' image of the post-Mao party leadership -- 56 The role of bureaucracy in China's democratic process -- 72 Different images of Chinese bureaucracy in the political process -- 73 Bureaucratic elites' self-interests in the political system -- 76 Bureaucratic elites' concern with unity and stability in China -- 78 Conclusion -- 85 Problems of political opposition in inducing democracy in China -- 91. |
| Summary |
This book examines China's process of democratic transition, and the role of state and society in this process. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy -- China.
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Democracy. |
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China. |
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Bureaucracy -- China.
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Bureaucracy. |
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China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1976-2002 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guo, Xiaoqin. State and society in China's democratic transition. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415945046 (DLC) 2003000176 (OCoLC)51454447 |
| ISBN |
0203515501 (electronic book) |
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9780203515501 (electronic book) |
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9780203497357 |
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020349735X |
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0415945046 (Cloth) |
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