| Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China Contributor(s): Deng, Zhenglai (Editor), Guo, Sujian (Editor), Ahlers, Anna L. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739165224 ISBN-13: 9780739165225 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $121.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | Political Economy |
| Dewey: 320.951 |
| LCCN: 2011021466 |
| Series: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for liberal democracy and "procedural legitimacy," the Chinese government's attempt at bolstering legitimacy has emphasized performance-based, responsibility-based, morality-based, and ideology-based arguments in order to gain popular support and maintain regime stability. In order to understand and explain political phenomena in China, it is necessary to revisit the concepts, theories, and sources of legitimacy and their applications in the Chinese context. Contributors of this book have approached legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context. |