Chinas Trapped Transition

Author : Minxin Pei
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266420
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China’s Trapped Transition written by Minxin Pei and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China’s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party’s reform strategy—pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Pei casts doubt on three central explanations for why China’s strategy works: sustained economic development will lead to political liberalization and democratization; gradualist economic transition is a strategy superior to the “shock therapy” prescribed for the former Soviet Union; and a neo-authoritarian developmental state is essential to economic take-off. Pei argues that because the Communist Party must retain significant economic control to ensure its political survival, gradualism will ultimately fail. The lack of democratic reforms in China has led to pervasive corruption and a breakdown in political accountability. What has emerged is a decentralized predatory state in which local party bosses have effectively privatized the state’s authority. Collusive corruption is widespread and governance is deteriorating. Instead of evolving toward a full market economy, China is trapped in partial economic and political reforms. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China’s Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China’s future as a great power.

Author : Minxin Pei
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737296
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China’s Crony Capitalism written by Minxin Pei and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.

Author : Minxin Pei
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780674325630
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Reform to Revolution written by Minxin Pei and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author concludes with provocative statements about regime transition from communism. He rejects the idealistic notion that democratization can, by itself, remove the structural obstacles to economic transformation, and he sees high economic and political costs as unavoidable in transition from communism along either the Soviet or the Chinese path.

Author : Bruce J. Dickson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521878454
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth Into Power written by Bruce J. Dickson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickson argues that, rather than promoting democratization, China's entrepreneurs offer key support for the Communist Party's agenda.

Author : Vivienne Shue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193524
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Govern China written by Vivienne Shue and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

Author : Graham Allison
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544935330
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destined For War written by Graham Allison and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China—and how it might be prevented. China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve. At the time of publication, an unstoppable China approached an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promised to make their countries “great again,” the seventeenth case was looking grim—it still is. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war. In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydides’s Trap—and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today. SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON)* AMAZON “Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around.” — President Joe Biden “[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing.” — Boston Globe “[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book.”— New York Times Book Review

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075563974X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding European Democracy written by Richard Youngs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades. Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts, journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe descending into an era of conflict, driven by xenophobic nationalism and nativist authoritarians slowly dismantling liberal democratic rights. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified these fears. There is another side of the democratic equation, however. Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political parties, citizens and civil society organisations have gradually begun to push back in defence of democracy. With each chapter, Youngs shows how many governmental, political and social actors have developed responses to Europe's democratic malaise at multiple levels. Europe's democracy problems have been grave and far-reaching. Yet, a spirit of democratic resistance has slowly taken shape. This book argues that the pro-democratic fightback may be belated, but it is real and has assumed significant traction with various types of democratic reform underway, including citizen initiatives, political-party changes, digital activism and EU-level responses.

Author : Roger Garside
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391705
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Coup written by Roger Garside and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert’s take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts—contrary to the prevailing consensus—that China’s leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d’état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China’s one-party dictatorship and launch a transition to democracy and the rule of law. Long-time diplomat and development banker Roger Garside draws on his deep knowledge of Chinese politics and economics first to develop a detailed scenario of how these events may unfold, and then—in the main body of the book—to explain why. His gripping, persuasive account of how Chinese leaders plot and plan away from the public eye is unique in published literature. Garside argues that under Xi’s overconfident leadership, China is on a collision course with an America that is newly awakened out of complacency. As Xi’s rivals look abroad, they are alarmed that he is blind to the reactions that China’s actions have provoked from the world’s strongest power and its allies. In domestic affairs, Xi’s rivals recognize that economic and social change without political reform have created problems that require not just new leaders but a new system of government. Security abroad and stability at home demand a revolution to which Xi is implacably opposed. To save China—and themselves—from catastrophe, they must remove him and end the dictatorship he is determined to defend. But their will and capacity to do so depend crucially on how liberal democracies act. Garside’s scenario shows America leading its allies in creating the conditions in which Xi’s rivals move against him.

Author : Michael Pettis
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0870034081
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avoiding the Fall written by Michael Pettis and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. The only question is how to proceed. Michael Pettis debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China's economic rise and details Beijing's options. The urgent task of shifting toward greater domestic consumption will come with political costs, but Beijing must increase household income and reduce its reliance on investment to avoid a fall.

Author : Minxin PEI
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674325647
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FROM REFORM TO REVOLUTION written by Minxin PEI and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: