A middle class without democracy economic growth and the prospects for democratization in China
Title:
A middle class without democracy economic growth and the prospects for democratization in China
Author:
Chen, Jie, 1955-
ISBN:
9780199841646
9780199332663
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 210 p.)
Contents:
List of tables and figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the contingent middle class -- China's middle class : definition and evolution -- How does the middle class view democracy and the government? -- Why does or does not the middle class support democracy? -- The impact of democratic support on the middle class's political -- Behavior -- Conclusion: contingent democratic supporters and prospects for -- Democracy -- Appendix: List of in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing, Chengdu, and Xian in 2008 -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy based on a probability-sample survey and in-depth interviews of residents in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Chengdu, and Xi'an.
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