China's Political System/ modernazation and tradition
Dreyer,June Teufel
- New York: Longman, 2010.
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1. Analyzing Chinese politics -- Historical foundations -- Analytical approaches to Chinese politics -- 2. The Chinese Communist Party and state institutions -- Socialist organizational and ideological features -- Leninist organizational principles -- The constitution of the party state -- The Chinese Communist Party -- The central government -- Provincial- and municipal-level governments -- Special administrative regions : Hong Kong and Macau -- Local governments at the county, township, and village levels -- Public finance -- The cadre system and public administration -- Legislation, the People's Congresses, and the political consultative conferences -- The judiciary, police, and penal systems -- The military and politics -- 3. Political Leadership -- The center of power -- Leadership generations : revolutionaries, technocrats, and recent diversification -- The division of labor within the party leadership Central leading small groups : top-level decision-making under XI Jinping -- Top leaders -- The risks of political succession and XI Jinping's presidential style -- Informal methods of exercising power -- 4. Governing China's economy -- China's economic transformation -- Economic growth : official data and alternative indicators -- Prerequisites for Chinese economic reform -- Government involvement in the Chinese economy -- The role of government in the banking and financial systems -- Economic globalization and government policy -- "Cadre capitalism" and corruption -- Decentralized economic policies and regional disparities -- The dynamics of a developmental state -- 5. Governing China's society -- Political control and "social management" -- Political controls and popular demands for civil rights -- Rural society -- Urban society and new social forces -- Social organizations and trade unions -- The media nd public opinion -- Ethnic and religious groups The potential for social unrest -- The political consequences of social change -- 6. Policy making : processes and outcomes -- Distinctive features of the policy process -- Administrative modernization and economic deregulation -- Internal security and justice : abolition of "re-education through labor" -- Media policy : controlling social media -- Social security : state pensions for the rural population -- Macroeconomic control : managing the impact of the global financial crisis -- Public budgets : The role of local-government financing platforms -- Infrastructure policy and the high-speed rail network -- Industrial policy and investment catalogs in the automotive sector -- Innovation policy : promoting the internet of things -- Environmental policy : curtailing urban air pollution -- Food safety : preventing health risks -- Disaster management : contingency planning and rescue programs -- Foreign and security policies : maritime rights and interests Urbanization policy : experimental urban concepts -- Internet security : national IT independence and China's cyber policy -- Education policy : popularization and improvements in vocational training -- Mega-projects : China's South-to-North Water Transfer Project -- Strengths, weaknesses, and special characteristics of Chinese policy making -- 7. Perspectives on China's political development -- Erosion of the party-state and restorative efforts -- Foundations of Communist Party rule -- The underlying fragility of the Chinese political order -- Scenarios for political development -- The potential for gradual democratic evolution -- Is China a possible developmental model for other countries? -- Implications for international interactions with China