UID:
almafu_9959231871802883
Format:
1 online resource (467 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-12111-8
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9786611121112
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981-270-832-4
Series Statement:
Series on contemporary China ; v. 8
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; 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
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5. Politics of SARS 6. Ideological Institutionalization and Politics of Development; 7. Jiang Zemin's Complete Retirement; 8. Hu Jintao's Power Consolidation; Conclusion: Institutionalization and Political Transition; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789812700411
Additional Edition:
ISBN 981-4603-72-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 981-270-041-2
Language:
English
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