China's Elite Politics : Political Transition And Power Balancing.

Chinas 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 expl...

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Main Author: Zhiyue, by Bo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific, 2007.
Series:Series on Contemporary China, v. 8.
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Table of 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.