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Political Change in China : Comparisons with Taiwan / ed. by Larry Diamond, Bruce Gilley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685857707
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Comparing and Rethinking Political Change in China and Taiwan -- Part 1. Civil Society and the State -- 2. The Evolution of Political Values -- 3. Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent -- 4. Religion and the Emergence of Civil Society -- 5. Business Groups: For or Against the Regime? -- Part 2. Regime Responses -- Part 2 Regime Responses -- 6. Responsive Authoritarianism -- 7. Developing the Rule of Law -- 8. Competitive Elections -- 9. International Pressures and Domestic Pushback -- Part 3. Looking Forward -- 10. Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: A Model for China? -- 11. Why China’s Democratic Transition Will Differ from Taiwan’s -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: How might China become a democracy? And what lessons, if any, might Taiwan's experience of democratization hold for China's future? The authors of this volume consider these questions, both through comparisons of Taiwan's historical experience with the current period of economic and social change in the PRC, and through more focused analysis of China's current, and possible future, politics.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685857707

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Comparing and Rethinking Political Change in China and Taiwan -- Part 1. Civil Society and the State -- 2. The Evolution of Political Values -- 3. Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent -- 4. Religion and the Emergence of Civil Society -- 5. Business Groups: For or Against the Regime? -- Part 2. Regime Responses -- Part 2 Regime Responses -- 6. Responsive Authoritarianism -- 7. Developing the Rule of Law -- 8. Competitive Elections -- 9. International Pressures and Domestic Pushback -- Part 3. Looking Forward -- 10. Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: A Model for China? -- 11. Why China’s Democratic Transition Will Differ from Taiwan’s -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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How might China become a democracy? And what lessons, if any, might Taiwan's experience of democratization hold for China's future? The authors of this volume consider these questions, both through comparisons of Taiwan's historical experience with the current period of economic and social change in the PRC, and through more focused analysis of China's current, and possible future, politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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