Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China (Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development) - Hardcover

Book 13 of 29: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
 
9780739165225: Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China (Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0739165224 ISBN 13: 9780739165225
Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2011

Synopsis

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 governments 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.

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About the Author

Deng Zhenglai is distinguished professor of Fudan University, dean of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, and director of the Fudan University Center for Contemporary China Research.

Sujian Guo is distinguished professor of Fudan University and associate dean of Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, and concurrently professor of political science and director of the Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University.

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Publisher
Lexington Books (UK)
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0739165224
ISBN 13 
9780739165225
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
226
Editor
Zhenglai Deng, Sujian Guo