China's Governance Model: Flexibility and Durability of Pragmatic Authoritarianism

by Hongyi Lai

Book Overview

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 Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciate the surprising ability of China's government to rapidly transform a once impoverished economy and to recover from numerous crises from 1978 to the present. This book, on the other hand, takes a more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415734479
• ISBN13: 9780415734479
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"