Reviving legitimacy
Subtitle: lessons for and from China
By: edited by Deng Zhenglai and Sujian Guo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780739165225; 9780739168882
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments; Politics and government
Description: "This fascinating collection of papers on China's ongoing efforts in reviving legitimacy has approached the issue of legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A cosmopolitan moment of legitimacy and governance / Zhenglai Deng and Sujian Guo; title: Typological analysis of democratic legitimacy / Yun-han Chu and Min-hua Huang; title: What is political legitimacy and how can it be acquired? : lessons from a deviant case / Philippe C. Schmitter; title: International dimensions of legitimacy : reflections on western theories and the Chinese experience / Heike Holbig; title: "Adaptive authoritarianism" in contemporary China : identifying zones of legitimacy building / Anna L. Ahlers and Gunter Schubert; title: Re-conceptualizing "legitimacy" for studying village elections in China / C.S. Bryan Ho; title: Confucianism as a legitimizing ideology / Peter R. Moody; title: Legitimizing Leninism / Josef Gregory Mahoney; title: Authoritarian legitimacy and legitimation in contemporary China / Alfred L. Chan; title: "Performance legitimacy" and China's political adaptation strategy / Yuchao Zhu; title: Morality, benevolence, and responsibility : regime legitimacy in China from past to the present / Yanqi Tong.