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Author_Jean-Pierre Cabestan
authoritarian resilience
Belt Road Initiative
BRI
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CCP
China
China's democratization
China's political future
China’s democratization
China’s political future
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese elites
Chinese intellectuals
Chinese middle class
Chinese political culture
Chinese politics
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One Belt One Road
South China Sea
Superpower
Xi Jinping
Product details
- ISBN 9781538129579
- Weight: 508g
- Dimensions: 164 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Arguing against conventional wisdom, this important book makes a compelling case for the continuing strength of China’s one-party system. Many analysts have predicted that China’s unprecedented economic development and middle-class expansion would lead to a liberalization of its political regime and a move toward democracy. Instead, leading scholar Jean-Pierre Cabestan contends that the Chinese Communist Party will continue to adapt and prosper in the coming decades, representing a growing challenge to all democracies. Influenced by China’s traditional culture and even more so by the regime’s Soviet ideology, institutions, and modus operandi, most Chinese are not pushing for democracy, choosing security, stability and prosperity over political freedoms and participation.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also senior research fellow in France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
