UID:
almafu_9960119684202883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-66419-2
Content:
Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party, Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision of government agencies.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Chinese legislatures and political change; 2. Origins of the NPC; Part II. The NPC Under Mao: 3. Development, doubts and decline; 4. Structural features; 5. The NPC in the political system; Part III. The NPC Under Deng: 6. Plenary sessions and policy discussions; 7. Structural reforms; 8. The NPC and systemic change; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-04820-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38086-3
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511664199
