State and society in China's democratic transition : Confucianism, Leninism, and economic development / Xiaoqin Guo.

This book examines China's process of democratic transition, and the role of state and society in this process.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Guo, Maya X. (Maya Xiaoqin)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:	East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:	1976-2002 Democracy > China. Bureaucracy > China. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General. Bureaucracy Democracy Politics and government China > Politics and government > 1976-2002. China
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Table of 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
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