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TO GOVERN CHINA
EVOLVING PRACTICES OF POWER |
| By: |
Vivienne Shue (Editor), Patricia M. Thornton (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£91.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107193524 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107193529 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2017 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian regime. |
| Synopsis: |
How, practically speaking, is the Chinese polity - as immense and fissured as it has now become - actually being governed today? Some analysts highlight signs of 'progress' in the direction of more liberal, open, and responsive rule. Others dwell instead on the many remaining 'obstacles' to a hoped-for democratic transition. Drawing together cutting-edge research from an international panel of experts, this volume argues that both those approaches rest upon too starkly drawn distinctions between democratic and non-democratic 'regime types', and concentrate too narrowly on institutions as opposed to practices. The prevailing analytical focus on adaptive and resilient authoritarianism - a neo-institutionalist concept - fails to capture what are often cross-cutting currents in ongoing processes of political change. Illuminating a vibrant repertoire of power practices employed in governing China today, these authors advance instead a more fluid, open-ended conceptual approach that privileges nimbleness, mutability, and receptivity to institutional and procedural invention and evolution. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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