Political Selection in China: Rethinking Foundations and Findings

by Melanie Manion

Book Overview

Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office - and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The evidence favors democratic elections as the selection institution that produces high governance quality. Yet authoritarian China, where a communist party monopolizes the selection of all officials of importance, presents a sophisticated and, by some measures, successful contrast to liberal democratic versions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009327119
• ISBN13: 9781009327114
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"