China’s Political Development : Chinese and American Perspectives

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Information......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Toward Good Governance in China: Perspectives of Chinese and American Scholars......Page 16
The People's Republic of China's Sixty Years of Political Development......Page 54
Transition from a Revolutionary Party to a Governing Party......Page 88
The People's Congress System and China's Constitutional Development......Page 118
Political Consultation and Consultative Politics in China......Page 151
The Rise of Civil Society in China......Page 180
China's Experiments in Social Autonomy and Grassroots Democracy......Page 207
China's Public Service System......Page 236
Decentralization and Central-Local Relations in Reform-Era China......Page 269
China's Grassroots Democracy......Page 297
China's Interest Coordination Mechanism......Page 323
Contemporary China's Decisionmaking System......Page 355
Building a Modern National Integrity System: Anticorruption and Checks and Balance of Power in China......Page 381
Contributors......Page 412
Index......Page 416
Back Cover......Page 433