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Reviving legitimacy : lessons for and from China / edited by Deng Zhenglai and Sujian Guo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhenglai, Deng, author.
- Series:
- Challenges facing Chinese political development.
- Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legitimacy of governments--China.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- This fascinating collection of papers on China's ongoing efforts in reviving legitimacy has approached the issue of legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context.
- Contents:
- Reviving Legitimacy; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction A Cosmopolitan Moment of Legitimacy and Governance; Part 1 Legitimacy in Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Typological Analysis of Democratic Legitimacy; 2 What Is Political Legitimacy and How Can It Be Acquired? Lessons from a Deviant Case; 3 International Dimensions of Legitimacy: Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese Experience; 4 ""Adaptive Authoritarianism"" in Contemporary China: Identifying Zones of Legitimacy Building
- 5 Re-conceptualizing ""Legitimacy"" for Studying Village Elections in ChinaPart 2 Reviving Legitimacy in China; 6 Confucianism as a Legitimizing Ideology; 7 Legitimizing Leninism; 8 Authoritarian Legitimacy and Legitimation in Contemporary China; 9 ""Performance Legitimacy"" and China's Political Adaptation Strategy; 10 Morality, Benevolence, and Responsibility: Regime Legitimacy in China from Past to the Present; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 8, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-31439-4
- 0-7391-6888-6
- OCLC:
- 945566673
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