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Series on Contemporary China - Vol. 19
CHINA'S ELITE POLITICS
Governance and Democratization
by (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A sequel to the author's trailblazer (China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, published by World Scientific in 2007), this book tackles the issue of governance in China. It provides up-to-date information on China's political elites and evaluates their ability to deal with crises through four case studies: Snowstorm in the South, the Tibet issue, the Sichuan Earthquake, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Along with China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing, this book provides rich empirical information on and insightful theoretical understanding of national-level politics in China and serves as a good reference source for students of Chinese politics. |
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| Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in Asian Studies; general audience interested in Chinese politics. | ||
“Dr Bo is an authority on the elites and the political role they play in China today. In this new volume, he analysed the role of those elites through the close examination of several recent developments that severely tested their governance skills. By focusing on some of the most dramatic challenges this past year, events that received considerable local and global attention, he demonstrates that the operation of elite politics in each case has stabilized. The study also demonstrates how the elites have become increasingly confident of their capacity to rule.” |
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Wang Gungwu Chairman, East Asian Institute National University of Singapore |
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“This new addition to Bo Zhiyue's collection of elite studies is, like his others, timely and encyclopedic in its meticulous attention to the details of the current (post-17th Party Congress) leadership's traits and in its analysis of the composition of the political bodies they guide. The virtue of the new volume is its topicality: this book is also innovative in its narration of four critical cases. Bo describes these episodes of governance to demonstrate how China's leadership met the wrenching executive challenges it confronted during the landmark year 2008. Readers can use this remarkable study as a statistical reference while also gleaning telling insights about collective governance capabilities in the PRC at the present.” |
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Dorothy J Solinger Professor, Political Science University of California, Irvine |
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“Bo Zhiyue has done it again — his new book provides the most complete and up-to-date analysis of China's Communist Party leaders. A valuable guide for all students of Chinese politics.” |
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Susan L Shirk Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego |
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| 448pp Pub. date: Feb 2010 | ||
| eISBN: 9789812836731 | ||
| Purchase book at WorldSciBook | ||
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