Kevin J. O'Brien, O'Brien Kevin J.

Reform Without Liberalization

China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

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Produktbeschreibung

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party, Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this first detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao through the regime of Deng Xiaoping. He describes the various functions it has served, from the management of intra-elite relations; to the incorporation, and co-optation, of criticisms of regime policies into regime debates; to legislation and supervision of government agencies. The author concludes that although the NPC has not moved toward liberalization, meaning movement toward political autonomy and direct representationof citizen interests, increased legislative involvement in lawmaking, oversight and regime support indicates that the NPC is developing an expanded, more powerful role in the political system.

Table of contents:
Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Chinese legislatures and political change; 2. Origins of the NPC; Part II. The NPC Under Mao: 3. Development, doubts, and decline; 4. Structural features; 5. The NPC in the political system; Part III. The NPC Under Deng: 6. Plenary sessions and policy discussions; 7. Structural reforms; 8. The NPC and systemic change; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this first detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC has changed from its founding under Mao through the regime of Deng Xiaoping.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521380867
• ISBN-10: 0521380863
• Artikelnr.: 21539541

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction: 1. Chinese legislatures and political change
2. Origins of the NPC
Part II. The NPC Under Mao: 3. Development, doubts and decline
4. Structural features
5. The NPC in the political system
Part III. The NPC Under Deng: 6. Plenary sessions and policy discussions
7. Structural reforms
8. The NPC and systemic change
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.