Where the Party Rules - The Rank and File of China''s Communist State

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Koss is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica, Taipei. Prior to this appointment, he was a post doctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area studies. Klappentext Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party's rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties. Zusammenfassung How does the Chinese Communist Party govern away from Beijing? Daniel Koss shows how eighty million rank and file Communist Party members empower the state in villages and companies throughout the country. He traces local differences to their twentieth-century roots! bringing new insight to Maoist politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Autocratic Grassroots Politics: 1. Introduction: party-based authoritarianism in China; 2. A theory of authoritarian regime parties; Part II. The Party in Contemporary China: 3. The CCP as co-enforcer of the one-child policy; 4. The CCP's support in generating the state's material base; Part III. The Party's Origins: 5. War contingencies at the origin of the CCP's power base; 6. The shifting geography of the CCP's power base (1949-2016); Part IV. The Party in the Mao Era: 7. Can the CCP disobey? The great leap famine (1958-61); 8. The CCP and regime survival in times of crisis (1967-9); 9. Conclusion; Appendices; References.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Koss, Daniel (Academia Sinica Koss
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108430739
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43073-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Political Parties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Politics & government, Politics and government, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Central / national / federal government policies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Central / national / federal government, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Marxism & Communism, Society and Social Sciences, Political parties and party platforms, Central government policies, Central government