China's Elite Politics
Subtitle: Political Transition and Power Balancing (Series on Contemporary China ? Vol. 9) (Series on Contemporary China)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: March 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9789812700414
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Economic Conditions; Government - General; International Relations - General; Nonfiction / Politics; General; 1949-; China; Politics and government
Description: "China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms."--BOOK JACKET.