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The Chinese political system is the subject of much media and popular comment in part because China supports an economy with an apparently inexorable dynamic and impressive record of achievement. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to China's political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges. It explores the central role of the Chinese Communist Party in the country's politics and the way in which the Party controls most elements of the political system but also interacts with other actors. It offers an analysis of the machinery of government examining both central government institutions but also the centre's relations with the provinces and other elements of local government. A number of themes run through the analysis. One is that an effective political system needs to generate an overall level of compliance or, at the very least, acquiescence to its authority. The book thus highlights the ways in which the Communist Party seeks to secure public support and its own legitimacy. A second theme is that a comparative approach is productive and much is to be gained by considering the Chinese system through the lens of other systems with which it shares characteristics. The book also draws parallels with previous historical periods in China's history. Finally, it addresses the question of what kind of role the PRC will play in global politics as a whole, the implications for the West and the rebalancing of relations between China and its neighbours.
China --- Politics and government --- China's foreign policy. --- Chinese Communist Party. --- Chinese model. --- Chinese political system. --- Leninist party-state. --- National People's Representatives Congress. --- People's Republic of China. --- State Council. --- centre-local relations. --- deliberative democracy.
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What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth interviews with former secret police officers and the dissidents they tried to control as well as research into the documents both groups produced. In particular, Glaeser analyzes how these two opposing factions' understanding of the socialist project came to change in response to countless everyday experiences. These investigations culminate in answers to two questions: why did the officers not defend socialism by force? And how was the formation of dissident understandings possible in a state that monopolized mass communication and group formation? He also explores why the Stasi, although always well informed about dissident activities, never developed a realistic understanding of the phenomenon of dissidence. Out of this ambitious study, Glaeser extracts two distinct lines of thought. On the one hand he offers an epistemic account of socialism's failure that differs markedly from existing explanations. On the other hand he develops a theory-a sociology of understanding-that shows us how knowledge can appear validated while it is at the same time completely misleading.
Socialism --- Germany (East). --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ). --- Stasi --- MfS --- Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR --- Germany (East) --- Politics and government. --- secret police, east germany, socialism, dissolution, politics, government, dissidents, political prisoners, revolution, resistance, protest, military, mass communication, group formation, stasi, rebellion, right consciousness, marx, party state, totalitarianism, opposition, nonfiction, history, men, masculinity, manhood, citizen, subject, authority, networks, discourse, disenchantment, disengagement, ideology.
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"In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region was more vigilant in identifying and rooting out suspected communists from within its midst; none was as committed to mobilizing against the People's Republic of China as the one in the former US colony. Ironically, for all the fears of overseas Chinese communities' ties to the PRC at the time, the example of the Philippines shows that the "China" that intervened the most extensively in any Southeast Asian Chinese society during the Cold War was the Republic of China on Taiwan.For the first time, Kung tells the story of the Philippine Chinese as pro-Taiwan, anticommunist partisans, tracing their evolving relationship with the KMT and successive Philippine governments over the mid-twentieth century. Throughout, he argues for a networked and transnational understanding of the ROC-KMT party-state and demonstrates that Taipei exercised a form of nonterritorial sovereignty over the Philippine Chinese with Manila's participation and consent. Challenging depoliticized narratives of cultural integration, he also contends that, because of the KMT, Chinese identity formation and practices of belonging in the Philippines were deeply infused with Cold War ideology.Drawing on archival research and fieldwork in Taiwan, the Philippines, the United States, and China, Diasporic Cold Warriors reimagines the histories of the ROC, the KMT, and the Philippine Chinese, connecting them to the broader canvas of the Cold War and postcolonial nation-building in East and Southeast Asia."-
Chinese --- Anti-communist movements --- Anti-communist resistance --- Underground, Anti-communist --- Communism --- Ethnology --- Political activity --- History --- Zhongguo guo min dang. --- KMT-ROC party-state, Huaqiao, cold war in southeast Asia, cold war in east Asia, KMT Southeast Asia, KMT Cold War Taiwan. --- Zhong guo guo min dang --- Chung-kuo kuo min tang --- Chūgoku Kokumintō --- 中国国民党 --- 中國國民黨 --- Guo min dang (China) --- Kuo min tang (China) --- Guomindang (China) --- Kuomintang (China) --- Gominʹdan (China) --- Kū maṅʻ tanʻ (China) --- 國民黨 (China) --- 国民党 (China) --- Zhonghua ge ming dang --- 中華革命黨 --- Chinese Nationalist Party --- Nationalist Party (China) --- Republican Party (China) --- Soi︠u︡z vozrozhdenii︠a︡ Kitai︠a︡ --- Partido Nacionalista Chino --- Obʺedinennai︠a︡ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ liga Kitai︠a︡ --- Gomindanovskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (China) --- Chūkatō --- KMT --- Zhongguo tong meng hui
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The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elections, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, it is the final step in America's democratization. Paths Out of Dixie illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Robert Mickey argues that Southern states, from the 1890's until the early 1970's, constituted pockets of authoritarian rule trapped within and sustained by a federal democracy. These enclaves--devoted to cheap agricultural labor and white supremacy--were established by conservative Democrats to protect their careers and clients. From the abolition of the whites-only Democratic primary in 1944 until the national party reforms of the early 1970's, enclaves were battered and destroyed by a series of democratization pressures from inside and outside their borders. Drawing on archival research, Mickey traces how Deep South rulers--dissimilar in their internal conflict and political institutions--varied in their responses to these challenges. Ultimately, enclaves differed in their degree of violence, incorporation of African Americans, and reconciliation of Democrats with the national party. These diverse paths generated political and economic legacies that continue to reverberate today. Focusing on enclave rulers, their governance challenges, and the monumental achievements of their adversaries, Paths Out of Dixie shows how the struggles of the recent past have reshaped the South and, in so doing, America's political development.
Democratization --- Since 1865 --- Southern States --- Politics and government --- African Americans. --- American political development. --- Brown v. Board of Education. --- Civil Rights Act 1964. --- Clemson College. --- Deep South. --- Dixiecrats. --- Georgia. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Herman Talmadge. --- James Meredith. --- Mississippi. --- National Democratic Party. --- Reconstruction. --- Republicans. --- Smith v. Allwright. --- South Carolina. --- South. --- States' Rights Party. --- U.S. Supreme Court. --- University of Georgia. --- University of Mississippi. --- Voting Rights Act 1965. --- White Citizens' Council. --- authoritarian enclaves. --- authoritarian rule. --- black education. --- black insurgency. --- black politics. --- black protest. --- democracy. --- democratic rule. --- democratization. --- desegregation. --- economic development. --- elites. --- factional conflict. --- harnessed revolution. --- intraparty conflict. --- massive resistance. --- one-party rule. --- party factionalism. --- party reforms. --- party-state capacity. --- partyгtate institutions. --- political authority. --- political culture. --- political development. --- political geography. --- presidential elections. --- racial equality. --- regime change. --- subnational authoritarianism. --- subnational democratization. --- suffrage. --- voting rights. --- white primary. --- white supremacy.
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In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare" yet saturated with vindictive personal struggles. Collectivization not only overturned property relations, the authors argue, but was crucial in creating the Party-state that emerged, its mechanisms of rule, and the "new persons" that were its subjects. The book explores how ill-prepared cadres, themselves unconvinced of collectivization's promises, implemented technologies and pedagogies imported from the Soviet Union through actions that contributed to the excessive use of force, which Party leaders were often unable to control. In addition, the authors show how local responses to the Party's initiatives compelled the regime to modify its plans and negotiate outcomes. Drawing on archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic data, Peasants under Siege sheds new light on collectivization in the Soviet era and on the complex tensions underlying and constraining political authority.
Collectivization of agriculture --- Agriculture and state --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- Agriculture --- State and agriculture --- Agricultural collectivization --- Collective farming --- Collectivisation of agriculture --- History --- Government policy --- Romania --- Politics and government --- Economic policy --- Land reform --- Land, Nationalization of --- Collective farms --- E-books --- Collectivisation de l'agriculture --- Politique agricole --- Histoire --- Roumanie --- Politique et gouvernement --- Communism. --- Communist Party. --- Eastern Europe. --- MarxistЌeninist principles. --- Party cadres. --- Party-state. --- Romania. --- Romanian villagers. --- Securitate cadres. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet blueprint. --- agrarian population. --- agricultural collectivization. --- associations. --- bureaucratic apparatus. --- bureaucratization. --- categories. --- chiaburs. --- class equality. --- class stratification. --- class war. --- class warfare. --- collective farms. --- collectives. --- collectivization. --- colonization. --- communist regime. --- consent. --- denunciation. --- ecological adaptation. --- economic adaptation. --- ethnic composition. --- ethnonational groups. --- gender roles. --- generational expectations. --- industrial development. --- industrial facilities. --- interwar fascist movement. --- kinship. --- land ownership. --- land reform. --- local politics. --- modern state-making. --- new social order. --- new socialist person. --- personalistic ties. --- personhood. --- persuasion work. --- petition writing. --- political authority. --- political insurgents. --- propaganda. --- religion. --- religious composition. --- replica regimes. --- rural life. --- sabotage. --- social conflict. --- social engineering. --- social mobility. --- social organization. --- social practices. --- social relations. --- social status. --- socialist body politic. --- status inequality. --- uprisings. --- village life. --- village social organization. --- village status systems.
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The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be consolidated. Barany also demonstrates that building democratic armies is the quintessential task of newly democratizing regimes. But how do democratic armies come about? What conditions encourage or impede democratic civil-military relations? And how can the state ensure the allegiance of its soldiers? Barany examines the experiences of developing countries and the armed forces in the context of major political change in six specific settings: in the wake of war and civil war, after military and communist regimes, and following colonialism and unification/apartheid. He evaluates the army-building and democratization experiences of twenty-seven countries and explains which predemocratic settings are most conducive to creating a military that will support democracy. Highlighting important factors and suggesting which reforms can be expected to work and fail in different environments, he offers practical policy recommendations to state-builders and democratizers.
Armed Forces --- Civil-military relations --- Armed Services --- Military, The --- Military art and science --- Disarmament --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Reorganization --- 1947 Partition. --- Argentina. --- Bangladesh. --- Bosnia and Herzegovina. --- Botswana. --- British colonial rule. --- Chile. --- Cold War. --- El Salvador. --- European Union. --- Germany. --- Ghana. --- Greece. --- Guatemala. --- Hezbollah. --- Hungary. --- India independence. --- Indonesia. --- Japan. --- Lebanese Armed Forces. --- Lebanese civil war. --- NATO. --- Pakistan independence. --- Portugal. --- Portuguese civilЭilitary relations. --- Romania. --- Royal Thai Armed Forces. --- Russia. --- Russian military politics. --- Shi'a Islamist organization. --- Slovenia. --- South Africa. --- South Korea. --- Soviet Union. --- Spain. --- Spanish military. --- Tanzania. --- Territorial Defense Force. --- Thailand. --- Yemen. --- apartheid. --- armed forces. --- army building. --- authoritarianism. --- civil war. --- civilian control. --- civilЭilitary relations. --- civiЭilitary relations. --- colonialism. --- communism. --- communist regime. --- consolidated democracy. --- democracy. --- democratic armies. --- democratic army. --- democratic civilЭilitary relations. --- democratic control. --- democratic governance. --- democratic regimes. --- democratic transition. --- democratization. --- democratizing regimes. --- fascist dictatorship. --- formative moments. --- free elections. --- military dictators. --- military elites. --- military politics. --- military rule. --- party-state. --- political autonomy. --- political environments. --- political presence. --- postcommunism. --- postwar Germany. --- praetorian elites. --- praetorianism. --- regime change. --- reunification. --- single political entity. --- state formation. --- state transformation. --- state-builders. --- war.
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