China's political development : Chinese and American perspectives / Kenneth Lieberthal, Cheng Li, Yu Keping, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lieberthal, Kenneth, editor.

Li, Cheng, 1956- editor.

Yu, Keping, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

China--Politics and government--21st century.

China.

Physical Description:

xiii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2014]

Summary:

China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining chapters authored by twelve prominent Chinese political scientists with an extensive commentary on each chapter by an American scholar of the Chinese political system. Each chapter focuses on a major aspect of the development of the Chinese Party-state, encompassing the changing relations among its constituent parts as well as its evolving approaches toward economic growth, civil society, grassroots elections, and the intertwined problems of supervision and corruption. Together, these analyses highlight the history, strategy, policies, and implementation of governance reforms since 1978 and the authors' recommendations for future changes. This extensive work provides the deep background necessary to understand the sociopolitical context and intellectual currents behind the reform agenda announced at the landmark Third Plenum in 2013. Shedding light through contrasting perspectives, the book provides an overview of the efforts China has directed toward developing good governance, the challenges it faces, and its future direction. Book jacket.

Contents:

Toward good governance in China : perspectives of Chinese and American scholars / Yu Keping

The People's Republic of China's sixty years of political development / Yu Keping ; comment by Kenneth Lieberthal

Transition from a revolutionary party to a governing party / Wang Changjiang ; comment by Larry Diamond

The People's Congress system and China's constitutional development / Shi Hexing ; comment by Jacques deLisle

Political consultation and consultative politics in China / Lin Shangli ; comment by Joseph Fewsmith

The rise of civil society in China / Wang Ming ; comment by Mary Gallagher

China's experiments in social autonomy and grassroots democracy / Yan Jirong ; comment by Andrew G. Walder

China's public service system / Yu Jianxing ; comment by Tony Saich

Decentralization in reform-era China / Yang Guangbin ; comment by Lynn White

China's grassroots democracy / Huang Weiping ; comment by Jean C. Oi

China's interest coordinating mechanism / Jing Yuejin ; comment by Cheng Li

Contemporary China's decisionmaking system / Zhou Guanghui ; comment by David M. Lampton

Building a modern national integrity system : anticorruption and checks and balance of power in China / He Zengke ; comment by Melanie Manion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815725350

0815725353

OCLC:

864548532