"This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the t…
Elites and governance in China
by Zang, Xiaowei, Kou, Jianwen
fromRoutledge studies on China in transition
"This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the t…
"This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the t…
The first study to systematically analyse the patterns of China'sforeign policy crisis behaviour after the Cold War.
"Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 'embassy bombing' incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision with a United States aircraft, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute with Japan. China's response to each incident, however, has…
"Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 'embassy bombing' incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision with a United States aircraft, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute with Japan. China's response to each incident, however, has…
"Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 'embassy bombing' incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision with a United States aircraft, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute with Japan. China's response to each incident, however, has…
The first study to systematically analyse the patterns of China's foreign policy crisis behaviour after the Cold War.
"The Introduction sets out the theoretical and empirical concerns of the book: Institutionalization is defined as a decision-making rule that allows power to pass from one leader to another. Institutionalization is, by definition, a set of rules that constrain the personalizatio…
"The Introduction sets out the theoretical and empirical concerns of the book: Institutionalization is defined as a decision-making rule that allows power to pass from one leader to another. Institutionalization is, by definition, a set of rules that constrain the personalizatio…
Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult…
"The Introduction sets out the theoretical and empirical concerns of the book: Institutionalization is defined as a decision-making rule that allows power to pass from one leader to another. Institutionalization is, by definition, a set of rules that constrain the personalizatio…
"The Introduction sets out the theoretical and empirical concerns of the book: Institutionalization is defined as a decision-making rule that allows power to pass from one leader to another. Institutionalization is, by definition, a set of rules that constrain the personalizatio…
When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's authoritarian state controls protest and implements ambitious policies from sweeping urbanization sch…
