China's Elite Politics: Political Transition And Power Balancing

by Zhiyue Bo

Overview

China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812700414
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/21/2007
Series:	Series On Contemporary China , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction: Toward a Power Balancing Model on Elite Politics in China     1
Political Transition and Power Balance
Power Transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao at the Sixteenth Party Congress     17
The Sixteenth Central Committee: Technocrats in Command?     55
Balance of Formal Power     109
Balance of Factional Power     139
Dynamics of Factional Politics
Politics of SARS     203
Ideological Institutionalization and Politics of Development     255
Jiang Zemin's Complete Retirement     297
Hu Jintao's Power Consolidation     349
Conclusion: Institutionalization and Political Transition     427
Index     435