Title: The Debate on Party Legitimacy in China: a mixed quantitative/qualitative analysis
Abstract: Abstract We report results here from a mixed quantitative–qualitative analysis of 168 articles published in China on the question of regime and party legitimacy. We find that ideology remains a leading strategy of future legitimation for the CCP, alongside better known strategies of institution-building and social justice. We also find that liberalism, while less often proposed, remains a potent critique of regime legitimacy. We use these results to make predictions about the evolutionary path of institutional change of China's political system, linking up Chinese elite debate with the wider scholarly debate of authoritarian durability. Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeike Holbig71*Bruce Gilley is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. His research centers on questions of democracy, legitimacy, and global politics. His books on China include China's Democratic Future (2004) and Model Rebels (2001). Heike Holbig is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her research centers on legitimation, political change, and the political economy of contemporary China. She is the author of ‘The emergence of the campaign to open up the West: ideological formation, central decision making and the role of the provinces’ (in Goodman, ed., China's Campaign to Open Up the West, 2004) and ‘The party and private entrepreneurs in the PRC’ (in Brødsgaard and Zheng, eds, Bringing the Party Back In, 2004).
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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