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Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
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2011
Summary
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for liberal democracy and 'procedural legitimacy,' the Chinese government's attempt at bolstering legitimacy has emphasized performance-based, responsibility-based, morality-based, and ideology-based arguments in order to gain popular support and maintain regime stability. In order to understand and explain political phenomena in China, it is necessary to revisit the concepts, theories, and sources of legitimacy and their applications in the Chinese context. Contributors of this book have approached legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6522-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6888-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
218
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Introduction A Cosmopolitan Moment of Legitimacy and Governance No access Pages 1 - 12
1 Typological Analysis of Democratic Legitimacy No access
2 What Is Political Legitimacy and How Can It Be Acquired? Lessons from a Deviant Case No access
3 International Dimensions of Legitimacy: Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese Experience No access
4 "Adaptive Authoritarianism" in Contemporary China: Identifying Zones of Legitimacy Building No access
5 Re-conceptualizing "Legitimacy" for Studying Village Elections in China No access
6 Confucianism as a Legitimizing Ideology No access
7 Legitimizing Leninism No access
8 Authoritarian Legitimacy and Legitimation in Contemporary China No access
9 "Performance Legitimacy" and China's Political Adaptation Strategy No access
10 Morality, Benevolence, and Responsibility: Regime Legitimacy in China from Past to the Present No access
