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State and society in China's democratic transition : Confucianism, Leninism, and economic development
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- Creator
- Xiaoqin Guo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2003
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- Physical Details
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- xiii, 270 pages; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 020349735X, 1280231920, 9786612373220, 0203515501, 1135944172, 1282373226, 0415945046, 9780415945042, 1135944180
- OCLC
- ocm62083166, ocm51454447, ocn247517835, on1027181062
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
- State-society configuration: strong state vs. weak society -- 1 Statist and societal explanations for the likelihood of a top-down democratic 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 the post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship -- 37 Confucian tradition and the 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 -- 91