Political scientists frequently argue that authoritarian systems are per se economically
inefficient, non-innovative, and without legitimacy. China's economic success and relative …

This chapter describes the broad patterns of China's authoritarian developmentalism,
otherwise known as the" China Model", spanning the periods from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang …

Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else
focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of …

This book examines the various stages of China's development, in the economic, social, and
political fields, relating theories and models of development to what is actually occurring in …

After the Tiananmen crisis in June, 1989, many observers thought that the rule of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would collapse. Instead, the regime brought inflation under …

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven
simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection …

Like all contemporary nondemocratic systems, the Chinese system suffers from weak
legitimacy at the level of regime type. The most likely form of transition for China remains the …

The success of the recent leadership transition in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might
be interpreted as evidence that China's authoritarian regime is historically unique. More than …

China's economic success under an authoritarian political system in the past 30 years has
raised a question about whether the China model will replace the Western model of …

This paper argues that despite the considerable resilience demonstrated by the Chinese
authoritarian regime, its power experiences continuous atrophy. With the weakening of the …