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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826389703321

Titolo

China's political development : Chinese and American perspectives / / Kenneth Lieberthal, Cheng Li, Yu Keping, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2536-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Disciplina

320.951

Soggetti

China Politics and government 21st century

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

Toward good governance in China : perspectives of Chinese and American scholars / Yu Keping -- The People's Republic of China's sixty years of political development / Yu Keping ; comment by Kenneth Lieberthal -- Transition from a revolutionary party to a governing party / Wang Changjiang ; comment by Larry Diamond -- The People's Congress system and China's constitutional development / Shi Hexing ; comment by Jacques deLisle -- Political consultation and consultative politics in China / Lin Shangli ; comment by Joseph Fewsmith -- The rise of civil society in China / Yang Ming ; comment by Mary Gallagher -- China's experiments in social autonomy and grassroots democracy / Yan Jirong ; comment by Andrew G. Walder -- China's public service system / Yu Jianxing ; comment by Tony Saich -- Decentralization in reform-era China / Yang Guangbin ; comment by Lynn White -- China's grassroots democracy / Huang Weiping ; comment by Jean C. Oi -- China's interest coordinating mechanism / Jing Yuejin ; comment by Cheng Li -- Contemporary China's decisionmaking system / Zhou Guanghui ; comment by David M. Lampton -- Building a clean system of governance / He Zengke ; comment by Melanie Manion.

Sommario/riassunto

China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking.  China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining



chapters authored by twelve prominent Chinese political scientists with an extensive commentary on each chapter by an American scholar of the Chinese political system. Each chapter focuses on a major aspect of the development of the Chinese Party-state, encompassing the changing relations among its constituent parts