Elections and Democracy in Greater China

Zusatztext A timely analysis of an important ongoing area of reform ... thoughtful introductory essay by the editors ... The volume should be an interesting background reader for those working in the fields of China studies, politics, and democratisation in post-communist societies. Informationen zum Autor Larry Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.Ramon H. Myers is Senior Fellow and Curator--Scholar of the East Asian Collection of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Klappentext This book examines why and how limited electoral competition developed in Greater China. The editors attribute Taiwan's electoral competition to breakthroughs in the political! ideological! economic and organizational marketplaces. Without similar breakthroughs! Hong Kong and Mainland China aren't likely to achieve electoral competition. Zusammenfassung This collection explores how limited electoral democracy evolved in the three Chinese societies of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China under dictatorial rule. Because of its special political circumstances during the 1950s and 1960s, Taiwan democratized by 2000, but the evolution of an equally robust democracy in the other two Chinese societies will take several more decades. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Larry Diamond and Ramon H. Myers: Introduction: Elections and Democracy in Greater China 2: Linda Chao and Ramon H. Myers: How Elections Promoted Democracy in Taiwan under Martial Law 3: Suzanne Pepper: Elections, Political Change and Basic Government Law: The Hong Kong System in Search of a Political Forum 4: Richard Baum: Democracy Deformed: Hong Kong's 1998 Legislative Elections---and Beyond 5: Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li: Accommodating "Democracy" in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China 6: Robert A. Pastor and Quingshan Tan: The Meaning of China's Village Elections 7: Jean C. Oi and Scott Rozelle: Elections and Power: The Locus of Decision-Making in Chinese Villages 8: Tianjian Shi: Cultural Values and Democracy in the People's Republic of China ...

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• Authors: Larry Diamond, Larry (Senior Research Fellow Diamond, Larry Myers Diamond
• Assisted by: Larry Diamond (Editor), Larry Jay Diamond (Editor), Diamond Larry (Editor), Ramon H. Myers (Editor), Ramon Hawley Myers (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2001
• EAN: 9780199244171
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924417-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Studies on Contemporary China; Studies on Contemporary China
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage