Toward good governance in China : perspectives of Chinese and American scholars / Yu Keping -- The People's Republic of China's sixty years of political development / Yu Keping ; comment by Kenneth Lieberthal -- Transition from a revolutionary party to a governing party / Wang Changjiang ; comment by Larry Diamond -- The People's Congress system and China's constitutional development / Shi Hexing ; comment by Jacques deLisle -- Political consultation and consultative politics in China / Lin Shangli ; comment by Joseph Fewsmith -- The rise of civil society in China / Yang Ming ; comment by Mary Gallagher -- China's experiments in social autonomy and grassroots democracy / Yan Jirong ; comment by Andrew G. Walder -- China's public service system / Yu Jianxing ; comment by Tony Saich -- Decentralization in reform-era China / Yang Guangbin ; comment by Lynn White -- China's grassroots democracy / Huang Weiping ; comment by Jean C. Oi -- China's interest coordinating mechanism / Jing Yuejin ; comment by Cheng Li -- Contemporary China's decisionmaking system / Zhou Guanghui ; comment by David M. Lampton -- Building a clean system of governance / He Zengke ; comment by Melanie Manion
Summary
China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining chapters authored by twelve prominent Chinese political scientists with an extensive commentary on each chapter by an American scholar of the Chinese political system. Each chapter focuses on a major aspect of the development of the Chinese Party-state, encompassing the changing relations among its constituent parts
