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To govern China

Abstract: 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.


Title and contributions: To govern China : evolving practices of power / edited by Vivienne Shue, University of Oxford; Patricia M. Thornton, University of Oxford.

First paperback edition.

Physical description: xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN: 9781316643167 (paperback)

Publication date:2017

Language: English (language of the text, soundtrack, etc..)

Country: United Kingdom

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Classifications: 320.951 (22) JQ1519.A5 POL040020

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  • Type of Publication Date: Publication Dates 1 and 2: monograph complete when issued, or issued within one calendar year
  • Publication Date: 2017

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