The Democratic Choice in Chinese Politics: Intra-Party Democracy and Political Civilization

Author: Chen Dongsheng
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book analyzes the dilemma, institutional barriers, and harm of "one-man politics" and intra-Party democracy in the traditional political system during the social transformation period, reflects on the historical evolution of overly centralized power systems, reveals multiple reasons for the failure of democratic centralism and path dependency issues, and elaborates on theoretical demands for the institutionalization of intra-Party democracy in the process of building socialist political civilization in China.