Politics of Legitimacy - Dingxin Zhao

A sweeping work on China that interrogates how states gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy. Â The Chinese communist state has survived massive social changes, including the introduction of capitalist markets, an ongoing explosion of technological innovation, and an unprecedented jump in wealth and education, accompanied by a major cultural transformation. How has China managed to maintain its power even as the ground has so profoundly shifted? In Politics of Legitimacy, Dingxin Zhao argues that state... Zobrazit více