| China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing Contributor(s): Bo, Zhiyue (Author) |
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ISBN: 9814603724 ISBN-13: 9789814603720 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $46.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - Local - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 320.951 |
| Series: Contemporary China |
| Physical Information: 468 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms. |