Politics in China Since 1949: Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule

ISBN-13: 9780415512459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Robert Weatherley

Opis

This study of post communist revolution Chinese politics sets out to discover if there is a plausible alternative to the electoral mode or if legitimacy is the exclusive domain of the multi-party system.

Spis treści

Map of the People’s Republic of China.  Biography of Chinese Leaders.  Introduction  1. Legitimising the New Regime: The Early Post-Revolutionary Years  2. Mass Participation and Mass Legitimacy: The Great Leap Forward  3. A Crisis of Legitimacy: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution  4. Redefining Party Legitimacy: The Succession to Mao and the Rise of Deng  5. New Era New Crisis: Problems of Legitimacy in the 1980s  6. In Search of New Paradigms of Legitimacy: China Since Tiananmen.  Conclusion 

O autorze

Robert Weatherley