chinese politics in the era of xi jinping

Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping

Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renowned for his coverage of China&apos s elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November . With rare insight, Lam describes Xi&apos s personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country&apos s likely future directions under the charismatic " princeling." Despite an undistinguished career as a provincial administrator, Xi has rapidly amassed more power than his predecessors. He has overawed his rivals and shaken up the party-state hierarchy by launching large-scale anti-corruption and rectification campaigns. With a strong power base in the People&apos s Liberation Army and a vision of China as an " awakening lion," Xi has been flexing China&apos s military muscle in sovereignty rows with countries including Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines while trying to undermine the influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. While Xi is still fine-tuning his art of governance, his zero tolerance for dissent and his preoccupation with upholding the privileges of the " red aristocracy" and the CCP&apos s status as " perennial ruling party" do not bode well for economic, political, or cultural reforms. Lam takes a close look at Xi&apos s ideological and political profile and considers how his conservative outlook might shape what the new strongman calls " the Great Renaissance of the Chinese race."

The Politics of Greed: How Privatization Structured Politics

An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe,The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters,both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the rule of law. Andrew Harrison Schwartz had unprecedented access to high-level Czech government officials during the Czech Republic's privatization process. This book is the result of the unique insights he gained and the innovative analytical framework he subseq

Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of

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The Alawis of Syria: War,Faith and Politics in the Levant

Throughout the turbulent history of the Levant the 'Alawis - a secretive,resilient and ancient Muslim sect - have aroused suspicion and animosity,including accusations of religious heresy. More recently they have been tarred with the brush of political separatism and complicity in the excesses of the Assad regime,claims that have gained greater traction since the onset of the Syrian uprising and subsequent devastating civil war. The contributors to this book provide a complex and nuanced reading o

Rearranging The Landscape Of The Gods: The Politics Of A

When people create new societies,economies,and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods,rituals,and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped,reshaped,and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today. Using miracle tales,votive plaques,diaries,and newspapers,Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twen

Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lucas, Russell E., PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, Weaving together accounts of historical developments, cultural elements, economic factors, and regional and international dynamics, Russell E. Lucas explores how the monarchy in Jordan survived economic crisis and regional political instability during the s. Lucas analyzes the factors behind the successful liberalization and deliberalizations of laws regulating political parties, the parliament, and the press that helped preserve the monarchy. These institutional survival strategies co-opted the opposition, kept it divided, and reinforced the unity of the regime's coalition of supporters. The author also compares survival strategies in Jordan with those of Morocco. Kuwait, Iran, and Egypt to explain the surprising durability of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.

Politics in the Republic of Ireland (Textbook-NEW)

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The Politics of Freedom of Expression: The Decisions of the

A comprehensive examination of the US Supreme Court's decisions on freedom of expression cases,showing how the civil rights movement helped develop the content-neutrality jurisprudence that transformed the Court's decision making.

The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Inter-American Development Bank, Development Bank / Int-Amer Dev Bank, Dev Bank / Inter-American Development Bank, PUBLISHER: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American S, This volume appears after more than a decade of political and economic reforms in Latin America. The success of these reforms--and the quality of public policies--has varied widely. As a result, it has become clear that good policy "recipes" are not enough. Specific policy recipes, no matter how well conceived, are necessary but not sufficient for success. Only by improving the policymaking process can we expect sustainable improvements in public policies and in their impact on development and people's lives. This study analyzes how the workings of the policymaking process affect the quality of policy outcomes. It looks beyond a purely technocratic approach to policymaking, delving into the messy world of politics. It argues that the political process and the policymaking process are inseparable, and that failing to understand one risks failure with the other. It offers a wide variety of examples and case studies, using an analytical framework that can help explain why policies that work in certain institutional environments may not work in others. The study also yields useful insights for the design of effective policy reform.

Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film

Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film: Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in order to appreciate Hollywood's classic movies, we have to understand them as the result of a style of filmmaking that justifies itself through the grace and beauty of its form. This beauty, when seen, challenges our notion of film as the poorer cousin of the high arts, or as worthwhile only when it serves a social purpose. The Hidden Art of Hollywood draws from a huge fund of recorded interviews with the directors, writers, cinematographers, set designers, producers, and actors who were a part of the studio process, in order to give the filmmakers themselves the chance to explain a very elusive phenomenon: the glancing beauty of the Hollywood film.While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, settled business, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films-which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare-are taken as seriously as they are. Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong and often didactic messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in order to appreciate classic American movies, we have to understand them as the result of a style of filmmaking that justifies itself not through ideas or social relevance, but through the grace and beauty of its form.The beauty of the Hollywood film challenges our notion of film as the poorer cousin of the high arts, or as worthwhile only when it serves a social purpose. In his effort to answer the many questions that classic American cinema suggests, author John Fawell considers previous criticism of Hollywood, but also draws from a huge fund of recorded interviews with the directors, writers, cinematographers, set designers, producers, and actors who were a part of the studio process, in order to give the filmmakers themselves the chance to explain a very elusive phenomenon: the glancing beauty of the Hollywood film. The films of certain great auteurs, including Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, and Orson Welles, receive particular attention here, but this book is organized by ideas rather than films or artists, and it draws from a wide array of Hollywood films, both successes and failures, to make its points.

Music,Cosmology,and the Politics of Harmony in Early China

Explores the religious,political,and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.

Politics and Society in Saudi Arabia: The Crucial Years of

This book provides readers with the essential context and background for a real understanding of modern Saudi Arabia. Yizraeli examines a rarely-studied topic: Saudi royal family decision-making in the process of building a modern state. She tracks in detail the internal deliberations in the formative years of development in the Kingdom,when priorities were defined. This unique strategy was first formulated by the royal family in a document known as the "Ten Point Programme," which was delivered

Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic Congo) from until , was fond of saying

Deciding to Leave: The Politics of Retirement from the

Ward (political science,Northern Illinois U.) offers a systematic study of the process by which Supreme Court justices decide to retire from the bench,and a historical look at retirement practices in the Courts. Citing partisan pressures that sometimes keep justices in their seats well beyond their ability to do effective work,Ward further argues for a reformed system of mandatory retirement. Chapters include : traveling postboys; : old imbeciles on the bench; and -present: a self-i

The Annual Register, Or, a View of the History, Politics,

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  The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on

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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of

In Mapping the Americas,Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy,labor and environmental exploitation,the emergence of pan-Native urban communities,global imperialism,and the commodification of indigenous cultures.While nationalism remains a dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts,Huhndorf examines the ways in which transnational indigenous politics h

Professor Neill Nugent The Government and Politics of the European Union: Seventh Edition

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21st-Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation

They are shot on high-definition digital cameras—with computer-generated effects added in postproduction—and transmitted to theaters,websites,and video-on-demand networks worldwide. They are viewed on laptop,iPod,and cell phone screens. They are movies in the 21st century—the product of digital technologies that have revolutionized media production,content distribution,and the experience of moviegoing itself.21st-Century Hollywood introduces readers to these global transformation

The Politics of Parenting (Paperback)

Should the state license parents? This book is challenging: the Brave New World of eugenics and State regulation of procreation,parenting and the family. This is a highly reasoned and provocative book about a huge taboo in modern society. It will raise the ire of both the traditionalists and the "politically correct." It will be attacked in the press. But,ultimately the book is in defense of children and addresses the role of government in ensuring that parents practice a "stewardship&

Developing the Global Student: Higher Education in an Era of

Developing the Global Student addresses the question of how students of higher education can emerge from their university life better equipped to dwell more effectively,ethically,and comfortably amidst the turmoils of a globalizing world. It does this from a number of theoretical perspectives,illustrating the nature of the personal and educational challenges facing the individual student and the teaching professional.The book explores the massive social changes wrought by the te

The Shi'a of Samarra: The Heritage and Politics of a

On February ,the main dome of the al-Askariyya shrine in Samarra was blown up. In the aftermath,sectarian strife between Shi’i and Sunni communities in Iraq and the wider region resonated around the world. The assault on Samarra,which was built in the period of the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century CE,therefore came to represent for many a symbol of the destructive civil conflict which engulfed Iraq following the US-led invasion. The Shi’a of Samarra explores and analy

The Politics of Human Rights Protection

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Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gainsborough, Juliet F., PUBLISHER: Georgetown University Press, Since the s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States, Juliet F. Gainsborough argues in Fenced Off. As suburbs have become less economically and socially dependent on the central cities, suburban and urban dwellers have diverged not only in their voting patterns but also in their thinking about national politics. While political reporters have long noted this difference, few quantitative studies have been conducted on suburbanization -- above and beyond race or class -- as a political trend. Using census and public opinion statistics, along with data on congressional districts and party platforms, Gainsborough demonstrates that this "ideology of localism" weakens when suburbs experience city-like problems and strengthens when racial and economic differences with the nearby city increase. In addition, Gainsborough uses national survey data from the s to the s to show that a separate suburban politics has arisen only during the last two decades. Further, she argues, the political differences between urban and suburban voters have found expression in changes in congressional representation and new electoral strategies for the major political parties. As Congressional districts become increasingly suburban, "soccer moms" and liveability agendas come to dominate party platforms, and the needs of the urban poor disappear from political debate. Fenced Off uses the tools of political science to prove what political commentators have sensed -- that the suburbs offer a powerful voting bloc that is being courted with sophisticated new strategies.

Punk Rock and the Politics of Place

Punk Rock and the Politics of Place: This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "e sound"e or a "e style"e as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the subculture occupies and the cultural practices tied to those spaces. Since social groups need spaces of their own to practice their way of life, this work relates punk values and practices to the forms of their built environments. As not all social groups have an equal ability to secure their own spaces, the book also explores the strategies punks use to maintain space and what happens when they fail to do so.

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