China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse
among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's …

The CCP government has adopted a very pragmatic strategy of “performance legitimacy”
since China began its reform. It means that the government relies on accomplishing …

Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered
the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states …

Small wonder then that more scholars are coming to see the viability and effectiveness of
state institutions as essential to prospects for democracy. As Samuel P. Huntington …

Political terminology is, as a general rule, specific to the political era in which it is created.
This is especially true of China, where people have witnessed numerous political …

In 1989, most observers believed that China's political reform process had been violently
short-circuited, but few would now dispute that China is in a very important transition. Central …

There is a widespread conviction among Western China scholars that economic reforms in
the PRC over the past 25 years have rendered ideology obsolete. According to conventional …

In 1989, after 40 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is faced with its worst
crisis since the Cultural Revolution (1966–69) over the issue of reform of the Stalinist …

Something profound seems to have occurred in Chinese foreign policy since the global
financial crisis starting in 2007–08. Many have noted an assertive and nationalist Chinese …

In the study of contemporary China, the sub-field that analyses elite Party politics is the least
developed, in spite of the existence of many outstanding monographs. It lags behind studies …