To Govern China
Evolving Practices of Power
Vivienne Shue,Patricia M. Thornton
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To Govern China
Evolving Practices of Power
Vivienne Shue,Patricia M. Thornton
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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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- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Beyond Implicit Political Dichotomies and Linear Models of Change in China
- I Leadership Practices
- II People’s Government
- III Expedients of the Local State: Bargains and Deals
- IV Governance of the Individual and Techniques of the Self
- Index