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A middle class without democracy : economic growth and the prospects for democratization in China / Jie Chen

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013

1 Online-Ressource : illustrations (black and white)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-933266-3 ( : ebook (No price))

978-0-19-984163-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 855809050     

Elektronische Ressource: R; OUP (OPAC-Hinweis:Oxford scholarship online)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841639.001.0001

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LOC-SH: China -- Politics and government -- 21st century ; Democracy -- China -- History -- 21st century ; Economic development -- China -- History -- 21st century ; Middle class -- China -- History -- 21st century

Middle class ; China ; History ; 21st century ; Economic development ; China ; History ; 21st century ; Democracy ; China ; History ; 21st century ; China ; Politics and government ; 21st century

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