This article identifies continuities, new trends and shifts in emphasis in the Chinese elite
debate about political legitimacy by analysing 125 Chinese articles concerning legitimacy …

Despite the many reforms of the post-Mao era, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains
the most important political actor in China and therefore the most crucial factor in …

This article reexamines the ongoing debate over the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist
Party regime through a rigorous analysis of a recent Asian Barometer Survey data from …

This article analyzes the crisis of representativeness in contemporary China from three
perspectives: first, the fracture of representativeness is a general political crisis in the world; …

Questioning the compatibility of economic liberalization with continued political illiberal
authoritarian rule is not just a matter for academic debate; it has been a key concern of the …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) under Xi Jinping appears headed toward one of two
very different outcomes. Each is worrisome. Each enormously consequential. The first is that …

To the editors (Zhang Xiaoming): China's comprehensive power (especially economic
power) has grown at an astonishing pace in the 30 years since the Chinese government …

China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the
prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have greatly increased its weight and …

Behind the political stagnation on the surface, signs abound that a fundamental political
transformation is taking place in China. In the fall of 2011, an unusually large group of …

This collection of articles from the Journal of Democracy considers the prospects for
democracy in China. While China has achieved extraordinary economic success as it has …