Economic Growth and Endogenous Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Reform China

Download or read book Economic Growth and Endogenous Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Reform China written by Hans H. Tung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the dynamic political economy of authoritarian institutions in China and attempts to answer the following questions: What is the significance of China's authoritarian institutions and the changes Xi Jinping has brought to them? Why did the Chinese elites go along with the changes that affected them negatively? Through these questions, the author unravels the mechanics of authoritarian resilience as well as its dynamics. The work reviews both literatures on China studies and comparative authoritarianism to introduce a general framework for analyzing authoritarian institutional change under dictatorships.