Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. The nature of politics under Mao and Deng
  • Modernizing Chinese informal politics / Lowell Dittmer
  • Factions and the politics of Guanxi : paradoxes in Chinese administrative and political behaviour / Lucian W. Pye
  • The paradoxical post-Mao transition : from obeying the leader to "normal politics" / Frederick C. Teiwes
  • Chinese politics at the top : factionalism or informal politics? : balance-of-power politics or a game to win all? / Tang Tsou
  • Factionalism in Chinese politics from a new institutionalist perspective / Andrew J. Nathan and Kellee S. Tsai
  • Reflections on elite informal politics / Lowell Dittmer
  • Part 2. The nature of politics under Jiang
  • China's political system : challenges of the twenty-first century / Michel Oksenberg
  • Jiang Zemin's style of rule : go for stability, monopolize power and settle for limited effectiveness / Lucian W. Pye
  • The changing form and dynamics of power politics / Lowell Dittmer
  • Normal politics with Chinese characteristics / Frederick C. Teiwes
  • The evolving shape of elite politics / Joseph Fewsmith
  • The supreme leader and the military / You Ji
  • The delayed institutionalization of leadership politics / Susan L. Shirk.