China S Quest For Political Legitimacy

Author : Baogang Guo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461633129

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China's Quest for Political Legitimacy by Baogang Guo Pdf

This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns of political legitimacy and its implication for Chinese political development in the near future. Based on an analysis of the new governing philosophy, the generation of political elite, and a new set of public policies, the book reaffirms the emergence of a new Chinese polity that infuses one-party rule with limited electoral and deliberative democracies. Unlike many scholars who perceive the contemporary Chinese history as a constant search for democracy, this book takes a very different approach. It asserts that the enduring question in political development in China today is no different from what was sought after throughout Chinese history, namely, the constant search for political legitimacy. Even though the quest for democracy is instrumental to that end, it may not ultimately lead to the embrace of a full-fledged liberal democracy. The new politics is not only a rationalization of the efficiency-based development, but also a major paradigm shift in China's developmental strategy.

Author : Lanxin Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000699760

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The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese Politics by Lanxin Xiang Pdf

Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West. Arguing that it is more helpful to understand the quest for legitimacy in China as an eternally dynamic process, rather than to seek resolutions in constitutionalism, Xiang examines the understanding of legitimacy in Chinese political philosophy. He posits that the current crisis is a consequence of the incompatibility of Confucian Republicanism and Soviet-inspired Bolshevism. The discourse on Chinese political reform tends to polarize, between total westernization on the one hand, or the rejection of western influence in all forms on the other. Xiang points to a third solution - meeting western democratic theories halfway, avoiding another round of violent revolution. This book provides valuable insights for scholars and students of China’s politics and political history.

Author : Deng Zhenglai
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739168882

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Reviving Legitimacy by Deng Zhenglai Pdf

This fascinating collection of papers on China's ongoing efforts in reviving legitimacy has approached the issue of legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context.

Author : Gungwu Wang,Yongnian Zheng
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 981024441X

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Reform, Legitimacy and Dilemmas by Gungwu Wang,Yongnian Zheng Pdf

How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What strategies has Jiang Zemin adopted to cope with new circumstances in order to strengthen his leadership? What are the challenges these new reform measures have generated for the leadership? And how have domestic concerns constrained the leadership's intention in China's foreign relations? These are some of the questions which this volume attempts to address.The authors agree that Jiang Zemin is not a man without any political initiative. He has struggled to establish his own style of leadership, and to strengthen the legitimacy of his leadership by setting forth new rules and institutions for political games and by finding new measures to cope with new challenges. This collection of articles shows the success Jiang and his colleagues have had in strengthening their leadership; how the different reform measures have strengthened Jiang's rule; and how the ongoing reform has created new challenges for his regime.

Author : Jiwei Ci
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674242159

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Democracy in China by Jiwei Ci Pdf

A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in moving China along the path to democracy before it is too late. With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China’s move toward political democracy may appear stalled. But Jiwei Ci argues that four decades of reform have created a mentality in the Chinese people that is just waiting for the political system to catch up, resulting in a disjunction between popular expectations and political realities. The inherent tensions in a largely democratic society without a democratic political system will trigger an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, forcing the Communist Party to act or die. Two crises loom for the government. First is the waning of the Communist Party’s revolutionary legacy, which the party itself sees as a grave threat. Second is the fragility of the next leadership transition. No amount of economic success will compensate for the party’s legitimacy deficit when the time comes. The only effective response, Ci argues, will be an orderly transition to democracy. To that end, the Chinese government needs to start priming its citizens for democracy, preparing them for new civil rights and civic responsibilities. Embracing this pragmatic role offers the Communist Party a chance to survive. Its leaders therefore have good reason to initiate democratic change. Sure to challenge the Communist Party and stir debate, Democracy in China brings an original and important voice to an issue with far-reaching consequences for China and the world.

Author : Xuezhi Guo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480499

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The Politics of the Core Leader in China by Xuezhi Guo Pdf

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese 'core' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party's elite politics.

Author : Muthiah Alagappa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804725606

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Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia by Muthiah Alagappa Pdf

Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or selected countries. This book aims to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of Asian security by investigating conceptions of security in sixteen Asian countries. The book undertakes an ethnographic, country-by-country study of how Asian states conceive of their security. For each country, it identifies and explains the security concerns and behavior of central decision makers, asking who or what is to be protected, against what potential threats, and how security policies have changed over time. This inside-out or bottom-up approach facilitates both identification of similarities and differences in the security thinking and practice of Asian countries and exploration of their consequences. The crucial insights into the dynamics of international security in the region provided by this approach can form the basis for further inquiry, including debates about the future of the region.

Author : Jinghan Zeng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137533685

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The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule by Jinghan Zeng Pdf

Why did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not follow the failure of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? This book examines this question by studying two crucial strategies that the CCP feels it needs to implement in order to remain in power: ideological reform and the institutionalization of leadership succession.

Author : Yoshikazu Kato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800610211

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Why China Will Not Democratize by Yoshikazu Kato Pdf

Author : Feng Chen,Feng Ch?en
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791426572

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Economic Transition and Political Legitimacy in Post-Mao China by Feng Chen,Feng Ch?en Pdf

Tracing the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, this book explores the conversion of China's policymakers to capitalist economic thinking. Chen argues that the reform process has created a gap between the legitimacy of the leadership, which remains rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the practice of reform, which has abandoned such ideological constraints. Through a systematic survey of party documents and resolutions, official publications, leaders' speeches, academic journals, and newspapers, Chen shows how Chinese policymakers reconceptualized the ownership system and adjusted related policies. Focusing on a number of economic policy issue areas such as state economy, rural reform, privatization, and income distribution, he analyzes in depth the implications of this gap for the current Chinese leadership and the future of China's political development.

Author : Joseph Chan,To-chʻŏl Sin,Doh Chull Shin,Melissa S. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107134423

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East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy by Joseph Chan,To-chʻŏl Sin,Doh Chull Shin,Melissa S. Williams Pdf

A key exploration of political legitimacy in East Asian societies undertaken by normative political theorists and empirical political scientists.

Author : Guoguang Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107082021

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China's Party Congress by Guoguang Wu Pdf

The first analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress. Drawing from new documentary evidence, Guoguang Wu examines the operation of the highest decision-making body in China's single ruling party, developing a theory of authoritarian legitimization that integrates informal politics with institutions.

Author : Yongnian Zheng
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822033481375

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Will China Become Democratic? by Yongnian Zheng Pdf

This book takes a close look at major issues about China's democratisation, highlighting main barriers to democratisation and providing key angles to understanding China's great difficulties in making democratic progress. The author examines the possible linkages between elite, class and regime transition in China, and maintains that China's democratic development needs to be understood in the context of state-society relations, all the while emphasising that class power is playing an increasingly significant role in China's elite politics and the people's struggle for democracy.

Author : Xuezhi Guo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108573641

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The Politics of the Core Leader in China by Xuezhi Guo Pdf

The desire for the 'core' leader has been imbedded in the ruling philosophy of the Chinese Communist Party. As the role of the 'core' leader and his interactions with other ruling elite are important in understanding Chinese politics, this book attempts to focus on the role of the party chief and how he could become the 'core' of the leadership. Xuezhi Guo provides the most detailed and comprehensive scrutiny of the 'core' of the Chinese Communist Party leadership and meticulously analyses the cultural, philosophical, and ideological origins as well as its evolution throughout the party's history. This study introduces an eclectic approach that integrates the most useful analytical perspectives and insights from Chinese political history, philosophy, and mainstream Western methodologies in order to explain the consistent patterns of elite politics and the behavior of the party's high-ranking leaders during times of cooperation and conflict from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping.

Author : Andre Laliberte,Marc Lanteigne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134058280

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The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century by Andre Laliberte,Marc Lanteigne Pdf

As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in China. In order to reaffirm itself as the most effective force for keeping the country together, the CCP has adapted to contemporary political conundrums in a variety of ways. Rejecting pessimistic perspectives which predict an erosion of state power or naive optimism that state-society relations will evolve towards a Western-style pluralist democracy in the foreseeable future, the contributions to this volume explore many ways in which the CCP selectively adapts to the challenges that have arisen from its strategy of rapid economic growth at the expense of political reform, in order to maintain its authority and relevance. Examining trends such as the reliance on religious charities originating from outside the PRC, the revival of local governance in urban settings, the passing of legislation for workers, or the multiplication of environmental non-governmental organizations, this book tackles the question of whether the Chinese government can overcome these challenges. The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century: Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics, Asian politics, comparative politics and political sociology.