03245nam 2200625 a 450 991078403860332120230207225253.01-281-12111-89786611121112981-270-832-4(CKB)1000000000334186(EBL)312316(OCoLC)476099634(SSID)ssj0000121375(PQKBManifestationID)11910132(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121375(PQKBWorkID)10110819(PQKB)11291902(MiAaPQ)EBC312316(WSP)00006250(Au-PeEL)EBL312316(CaPaEBR)ebr10188712(CaONFJC)MIL112111(EXLCZ)99100000000033418620061204d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrChina's elite politics[electronic resource] political transition and power balancing /Bo ZhiyueHackensack, N.J. World Scientificc20071 online resource (467 p.)Series on contemporary China ;v. 8Description based upon print version of record.981-270-041-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Politics5. 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; IndexChina'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 andSeries on contemporary China ;v. 8.Elite (Social sciences)ChinaBalance of powerChinaPolitics and government1949-Elite (Social sciences)Balance of power.320.951Bo Zhiyue280936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784038603321China's elite politics709896UNINA