State and society in China's democratic transition : Confucianism, Leninism, and economic development / / Xiaoqin Guo.

• Superior document: East Asia : history, politics, sociology, and culture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Guo, Xiaoqin.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
• Physical Description: xiii, 270 p.

Table of Contents

• State-society configuration: strong state vs. weak society
• 1 Statist and societal explanations for the likelihood of a top-down transition
• 4 Hypotheses, sources, and methods
• 9 Hypotheses
• 9 Sources and methods
• 17 Plan of book
• 22 Chinese communist party and bureaucratic elite in post-Mao reform
• 29 Post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship: Effective political control over effective bureaucracy
• 31 Different approaches to post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship
• 31 The general office system
• 33 Explaining post-Mao leadership-bureaucracy relationship
• 37 Confucian tradition and Chinese bureaucratic system
• 37 The development of leninist state system
• 43 CCP and the post-Mao reform
• 52 Bureaucratic elites' image of the post-Mao party leadership
• 56 The role of bureaucracy in China's democratic process
• 72 Different images of Chinese bureaucracy in the political process
• 73 Bureaucratic elites' self-interests in the political system
• 76 Bureaucratic elites' concern with unity and stability in China
• 78 Conclusion
• 85 Problems of political opposition in inducing democracy in China
• 91.