Elections and Democracy in Greater China (Studies on Contemporary China)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199244170 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ramon H. Larry Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Myers is Senior Fellow and Curator--Scholar of the East Asian Collection of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Students at all levels will benefit from reading it. The China Journal a state of the art analysis. No other book offers a better, more comprehensive look at the prospects for democracy in China. This book should make its way onto the syllabus in upper year and graduate seminars. Asian Affairs . Canadian Journal of Political Science 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. The China Journal scholars working in t
The editors attribute Taiwan's electoral competition to breakthroughs in the political, ideological, economic and organizational marketplaces. This book examines why and how limited electoral competition developed in Greater China. Without similar breakthroughs, Hong Kong and Mainland China aren't likely to achieve electoral competition.
A Good Book, But Needs More on Taiwan Jeffery Steele This book contains seven essays by various scholars on the development of democracy in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. Each of the essays is readable and well-researched. In two cases -- in an essay by Richard Baum on the real meaning of Hong Kong's 1998 legislative elections and in the essay by Tianjian Shi on the compatibility of democracy with modern cultural values in the PRC -- I found the book changed the way I previously thought about the issues.Unfortunately, Taiwan's stunning democratic development over the last two decades is ignored. Of the seven essays in the book, four are about the PRC, two are on Hong Kong,