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Abstract:
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It is the object of considerable debate in Western scholarship whether an
authoritarian political order dominated by a strong communist party can
continue to exist in China given the many challenges stemming from internal
reform and the impact of globalization. Will China eventually turn democratic
and will the communist party become obsolete and disappear, just as has
happened in many other former communist countries. There seems to be a
general consensus that Chinese political system is bound to change, but there
is no agreement as to the direction and form of change... |