End of an Era - How China's Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise

In this book, Carl Minzner argues that China's reform era is ending. The core factors that characterized the era-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Economic cleavages have widened; ideological polarization deepened. And China's leaders are now progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime's stability since 1978. End of an Era explains how China arrived at this dangerous crossroads, and outlines the potential outcomes that could result

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Overview: The End of China's Reform Era


• Chapter 2. Society and Economy: The Closing of the Chinese Dream


• Chapter 3. Politics: Internal Decay and Social Unrest


• Chapter 4. Religion and Ideology: What Do We Believe?


• Chapter 5. China in Comparative Perspective


• Chapter 6. Possible Futures


• Conclusion

About the author

Carl Minzner is Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is an expert in Chinese law and governance, and has written extensively on these topics in both academic journals and the popular press.

Summary

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface, their efforts have been a success. But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era reveals a different truth. Over the past three decades, a frozen political system has fueled both the rise of entrenched interests within the Communist Party itself, and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large. Economic cleavages have widened. Social unrest has worsened. Ideological polarization has deepened. Now, to address these looming problems, China's leaders are progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime's stability in the reform era. End of an Era explains how China arrived at this dangerous turning point, and outlines the potential outcomes that could result.

Additional text

14/01/2019

Product details

• Authors: Carl Minzner, Carl (Professor of Law Minzner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780190056346
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005634-6
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Marxismus und Kommunismus, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Recht und Gesellschaft, Rechtssoziologie, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, Marxism & Communism, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law