Elite Dissent in China. Lack of Elite Dissent Sustains the Regime
Posted: 27 Sep 2016
Date Written: September 25, 2016
Abstract
Socialist systems in the modern days have struggled to maintain power and legitimacy as their population is introduced to more liberalized capitalist systems around the world. The foremost struggle to these governments has been poor economic performance as the countries have run out of valuable commodity resources and failed to adapt to the new modern economic models of trade. The Chinese government has been an exception to the trend, on the contrary it has risen to become a major global economic power while limiting dissent and pluralism on the internal elite level of politicians as well as the general population. This research manifests that with the aid of modern technological equipment integrated into the reshaped Chinese political and economic models, the disintegration of the established political system can come only as a result of public dissent among the internal elite of the country. The aim of this research is to show that other factors alone are not sufficient to drive the fall of the regime, unless these factors contribute to the rise of elite dissent.
Keywords: China, Political & Social elite, Elite dissent, Cuba, Pluralism
JEL Classification: P48, P29
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