Comparative Politics and the People's Republic of China

Since the start of the 20th century, with the fall of the Qing dynasty, when China was in shambles with no industry, a corrupt government and no international presence, all the way up until today, where China has evolved into one of the strongest internationally recognized countries with a highly globalized market, the relationship between the Chinese people and its government has been debated on whether or not Chinese society is one ruled and dominated by a central government or a society where social change occurred because of bottom-up forces leading to a government for the people. China, since 1949, has been a country, which has been run by a single party state, known as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The CCP is organized under the basis of a central, unchallenged party governing the people by the means of communism. Throughout the past century, the CCP has dictated and maintained a rule over the livelihood of its people by monopolizing Chinese politics and penalizing those who opposed it, through central command planning and on the other spectrum, radical economic reforms at the end of the 20th century in the interest of keeping the CCP in power.

China has been a communist country. Despite persistent debate over an extended period of time, the question whether which Chinese government is the most responsive to its people has never been permanently settled. However, I dare to claim that Qing Dynasty was the most open and receptive to its people among several Chinese governments. Some people might contend that Republic of China, Warlords, and Chinese Communist Party were the most responsive to its people. However, a close examination throughout this essay will clearly reveal the fallacious nature of their argument. My line of reasoning will derive its support from the most fundamental sources of human wisdom and history.

However, the Confucian culture is exclusive to the contemporary political culture. In contemporary China, although socialist political culture has been widely spread and the actually implemented with the aid of the power of the state apparatus, people are still unable to completely get rid of the influence and control of traditional Confucian culture. In Confucian culture, the unity political view had the most influence, and the divine right of authority and the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, combined with the Chinese characteristic of the small peasant consciousness, made socialist political system also exist some traces of traditional political culture inevitably, and a large amount of the residual traditional culture values affect the process of political development in a variety of ways (Bell, 2010). Today as you can see, the development of market economy makes profound changes taken place in people's social interest structure. Corresponding to it, while people's political consciousness is fundamentally unified under the banner of socialism and patriotism, but the concrete political tendencies such as political attitude, emotion and policy orientation appear differentiation, which

The development the Chinese state and political institutions are classical Chinese government that is based on the dynastic cycle. Which says that a family would start their rule with strength, would grow weaker, and then another dynasty would take its place. Each dynasty that was ruling had the order of heaven and once they lost it another dynasty would take its place. Confucianism grew to be a big inspiration on the political state of China, like it became a highly centralized and bureaucratic government. People gained government offices by earning them through passing the civil service exams, which were based on Confucian classics.

One of the most significant changes in the Communist Party has been the distribution of power. In the days of Deng and Mao, for instance, the leader held the majority of power in the Chinese political system. In more recent years, however, the Communist Party has dictated more of the government's actions while the leader, Hu, has relinquished a fair amount of power and authority. This shift is exemplified by the author's idea, “In Mao’s and Deng’s days, the leaders towered

As many other countries around the world China has its long history of a struggle for equality and prosperity against tyrants and dictatorships. The establishment of People’s Republic of China in 1949 seemed to have put an end to that struggle for a better life. “The Chinese people have stood up!” declared Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of China’s Communist Party (CPP) – a leading political force in the country for the time. The people were defined as a coalition of four social classes: the workers, the peasants, the petite bourgeoisie and the national-capitalists. The four classes were to be led buy the CPP, as the leader of the working class.

“The Party: The Secret World Of China’s Communist Rulers,” by Richard McGregor is a book which provides detailed insight into the Communist Party of China, revealing many of the secret underpinnings of how the party is run, and explores the question of how they have continued to stay in power for so long. While other strong socialist powers, such as the Soviet Union and Eastern Germany, fell at the end of the 20th century, the CPC was able to stay in control and ultimately come out of that period even stronger. In McGregor’s own words “the party picked itself up off the ground, reconstituted its armor and reinforced its flank. Somehow, it has outlasted, outsmarted, outperformed, or simply outlawed its critics, flummoxing the pundits who have predicted its demise at numerous junctures.” Instead of letting its own ideologies weaken its power, the CPC has continually adapted and transformed its policies and goals in order to maintain their stronghold over the nation. Through his impressive list of Chinese scholars and political contacts, McGregor is able to lay out the fundamental workings inside the Chinese government and the impressive actions they’ve taken to remain such a powerful organization.

China has been the biggest economic structure for quite along time, but there are horrible reasons for these, and these decisions are made by the people 's republic of china. The people 's republic is China 's government, and they make all the decisions.A dystopian society is an unbalance in a nation about the people and the government; such as china, the people 's republic of china, or their government, makes many decisions that have affected their country. The three points one can analyze through researching the topic of dystopian societies are the influence of the government, the impacts and change the people 's republic made on china, and the how literature can be used to educate people about the problems in a dystopian society and the progression toward inequality.

When it comes to a communist country following the capitalist standards, they have to take in to consideration the need for freedom and the chance of prosperity for the people. The dictators in China will not be successful in using a capitalist system if they deny Milton Freidman’s thesis that prosperity will create individual freedom and end dictatorship, because for a capitalist government to work they cannot be in a dictator ship because there is no freedom to the people and that limits their chance to prosperity.

China has been a communist country since the communist revolution took place in 1949, since then China has been ruled by the dictator Mao Tse-Tung. However the Chinese dictator died in September 1976, he was hailed abroad as one of the worlds’ great leaders. Certainly one of the more impressive aspects of the Chinese communist government, has been the willingness of the people to protest against it (3, pg. 4).

I believe the government structure of China is the most contradictory to the U.S. government structure. To begin with, China is a Communist State. The president of China is elected by the National People’s Congress – current president elected with 2,952 votes out of a possible 2,987. The members of the People’s Congress are “elected” from the various municipal, provincial, and regional people’s congresses, with only members of the CCP being eligible for election – thus, ensuring the CCP’s ruling status. In the U.S., in theory, the president is elected by the people in an open and free election (I use “in theory” because of the debate over Electoral College versus popular vote).

Women have been considered inferior to men since the beginning of time. The Women in China were perceived no differently. Only in modern times have women’s social conditions begun to improve. The rise of the Chinese Communist Party saw several improvements for women’s rights. Women have been barred from participating in the political processes, banished from the fields and condemned to performing housework and having babies. The CCP viewed women as “holding up half of the sky” with men holding the other half; because of this new perception, the CCP chose to advance the female condition by not only abolishing old, barbaric practices, but by also giving women more social power by emancipating them from their husbands and fathers.

Democracy has been spread around the world due to globalization, and there are countries that are more democratic than others. Democracy is essentially a variable that can be measured. Democracy can be defined as a set of practices and principles, such as political participation and electoral processes, that protect freedoms and at minimum include the presence of free and fair elections, the protection of minority groups, the respect of human rights, and governed by majority rule . The People’s Republic of China (of which will be referred to as its conventional short form China) has established itself as a communist state, being one of the few remaining functioning ones in the world. This report will be answering the question “how democratic is China?” and will be looking at multiple variables to measure that, using a combination of variables from the models offered in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s index of democracy by Laza Kekic and The Quality of Democracy by Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino. The reasoning for using The Economist model is due to the scoring process that it uses, allowing for there to be an actual number on a scale for how democratic China is. China is an authoritarian regime; therefore it is known to have minimal aspects of democracy to it, so not all variables in The Economist will be used. The reasoning for using The Quality of Democracy model is to fill the parts that will not be extracted from The Economist model, therefore enabling this country

Confucianism has easily been influential in the development of the Chinese state through history. In fact, the core ideals of Confucianism have evolved. Despite the harsh repression of Confucianism by Marxist revolutionaries during the second half of the twentieth century, Confucian values continues to be influential in Chinese society and recently, Confucian political philosophy has resurfaced again. In addition, the political ideas and social ethics of Confucianism can provide the basis for a new, functional form of government in China. Confucianism can be a viable political philosophy for China in the twenty first century because many intellectuals have turned to Confucianism to make sense of such social

The purpose of this essay is to show how the economy of China has, and is changing, becoming the second largest economy in the world today. Although China is currently under the leadership of Xi Jinping, this essay will concentrate primarily on the actions undertaken by then President Mao Zedong, followed by then President Deng Xiaoping, (sans mention of Hua Guofeng). Given the relative infancy of Xi’s assumption of power, economic policies still remain largely rhetorical in form. Likewise, the majority of literature concerning economic policies under Xi are largely speculative, often citing strategies and ambitions as opposed to thereby, lacking a solid basis for rational induction In addition to China’s lack of transparency, In addition, it will be shown that the methodology behind the Chinese economy demonstrates the implementation of varying levels of the characteristics associated with the schools of Realism, Marxism and Liberalism. Thus, China’s approach to global trade in the 21st Century is pluralistic, testamentary to the failed economic