China's elite politics: political transition and power balancing
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Main Author: Bo, Zhiyue (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific c2007
Series:Series on contemporary China v. 8
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Power Balancing Model on Elite Politics in China; WINNER-TAKES-ALL MODEL; BANDWAGON POLITICS MODEL; BALANCE-OF-POWER POLITICS MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL; POWER BALANCING MODEL AND ITS COMPETING MODELS; CHAPTER OUTLINE; Part I: Political Transition and Power Balance; 1. Power Transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao at the Sixteenth Party Congress; 2. The Sixteenth Central Committee: Technocrats in Command?; 3. Balance of Formal Power; 4. Balance of Factional Power; Part II: Dynamics of Factional Politics
China?s Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China?s political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 449 p.)
ISBN:9789812700414
9789812708328
9812700412
9812708324

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