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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784038603321

Autore

Bo Zhiyue

Titolo

China's elite politics [[electronic resource] ] : political transition and power balancing / / Bo Zhiyue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12111-8

9786611121112

981-270-832-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 p.)

Collana

Series on contemporary China ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

320.951

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - China

Balance of power

China Politics and government 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Power Balancing Model on Elite Politics in China; WINNER-TAKES-ALL MODEL; BANDWAGON POLITICS MODEL; BALANCE-OF-POWER POLITICS MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL AND ITS COMPETING MODELS; CHAPTER OUTLINE; Part I: Political Transition and Power Balance; 1. Power Transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao at the Sixteenth Party Congress; 2. The Sixteenth Central Committee: Technocrats in Command?; 3. Balance of Formal Power; 4. Balance of Factional Power; Part II: Dynamics of Factional Politics

5. Politics of SARS 6. Ideological Institutionalization and Politics of Development; 7. Jiang Zemin's Complete Retirement; 8. Hu Jintao's Power Consolidation; Conclusion: Institutionalization and Political Transition; Index

Sommario/riassunto

China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents



characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and