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Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

Barrett L. McCormick
Barrett L. McCormick
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Marquette University
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Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China. By Dali L. Yang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 432p. $60.00.

Dali L. Yang argues a thesis many would like to find true. In China, he argues, markets have created pressure for limited, effective, and transparent government. Crises in the 1990s and since led Chinese leaders to implement reforms with these goals. They have achieved considerable if not complete success, and this leaves China better prepared for democracy. This thesis is most clearly stated in the conclusion. The first chapter offers an introduction and historical overview. Each of the intervening seven chapters documents and assesses a particular type of reform.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 411 - 412
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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