Jean-Pierre Cabestan

China Tomorrow (eBook, ePUB)

Democracy or Dictatorship?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing against conventional wisdom, this important book makes a compelling case for the continuing strength of China's one-party system. Many analysts have predicted that China's unprecedented economic development and middle-class expansion would lead to a liberalization of its political regime and a move toward democracy. Instead, leading scholar Jean-Pierre Cabestan contends that the Chinese Communist Party will continue to adapt and prosper in the coming decades, representing a growing challenge to all democracies. Influenced by China's traditional culture and even more so by the regime's Soviet ideology, institutions, and modus operandi, most Chinese are not pushing for democracy, choosing security, stability and prosperity over political freedoms and participation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538129593
• Artikelnr.: 56955249

Autorenporträt

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is emeritus senior researcher at the French Center for Scientific Research, Paris, and emeritus professor of political science, department of government and international studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also associate researcher at the Asia Centre, Paris and at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong. His main themes of research are Chinese politics and law, China's foreign and security policies, China-Africa relations, China-Taiwan relations and Taiwanese politics. His most recent publications are China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and Demain la Chine: guerre ou paix? (China Tomorrow: War or Peace?, Gallimard, 2021), due to be published in English by Rowman & Littlefield in early 2023.

Inhaltsangabe

The Chinese Political Regime's Future: A Resurgent Debate
1 China's Current Political System: A Strong, Sustainable, Authoritarian
Equilibrium
2 Bureaucratic Tradition and the Soviet Model: Patterns of State Hegemony
3 Democratic Culture: Repressed, Fragile, and Distorted
4 Civil Society: Leashed by the Party-State
5 The Role of Elites: Shaping Political Evolution
6 China's Future: Toward an Authoritarian and Imperial Political System
A Regime on Extended Reprieve
About the Author