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Retrofitting Leninism

Author : Dimitar Gueorguiev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197555683
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Retrofitting Leninism written by Dimitar Gueorguiev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrofitting Leninism explains, through the lens of China, how open governance and modern information technology come together to sustain a tightly controlled but socially responsive system of authoritarianism. When closed authoritarian regimes reform and open up, they often fail, most eventually breakdown. The People's Republic of China stands as a notable exception. How has the ruling Chinese Communist Party maintained power throughout decades of reform and rapid development? Drawing inspiration from the CCP's Leninist origins, Dimitar Gueorguiev offers a novel and empirically grounded explanation. The key to the CCP's staying power, he argues, is its ability to integrate authoritarian control with social inclusion - a combination that is being facilitated by modern telecommunications technology. Relying on statistical data, media reports, and a series of original opinion polls, Gueorguiev explores how public input feeds into political oversight and policy planning. To unpack how public preferences are acquired, processed, and prioritized, he analyses bottom-up representation and coordination in local Chinese legislatures. Finally, to evaluate the impact of inclusion, he shows that public engagement contributes to both policy stability and public satisfaction. Although public inclusion is instrumental to the CCP's hold on power, Gueorguiev underscores that "inclusive authoritarianism" greatly depends on the voluntary participation of Chinese citizens, which is far from guaranteed. A trenchant exploration of the Leninist model today, Retrofitting Leninism will reshape our understanding of the authoritarian approach to government and its prospects for the future.

Retrofitting Leninism

Author : Dimitar D. Gueorguiev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197555667
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Retrofitting Leninism written by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Retrofitting Leninism explores the relationship between political inclusion and political control through the lens of participatory governance in the People's Republic of China. The book can be condensed into three key points. First, public participation is a prerequisite for effective administration, irrespective of how a regime is constituted. Second, a regime's ability to solicit, process, and recast public input into policy outputs is central to its political durability. Third, technological advances in communication make it easier for authoritarian regimes, particularly those with Leninist foundations, to correspond with the public and thus undercut calls for genuine democratic progress---an endogenous process of regime maintenance I refer to as retrofitting. Using archival data, media reports, and original opinion polls, I show how public inputs are incorporated into the marketing and implementation of top-down policy outputs. To unpack the interface between inputs and outputs, I focus on proposal-making and government priorities in local Chinese legislatures. Finally, to evaluate the downstream impact, I estimate the effect of open policymaking on sub-national regulation and government approval. The findings suggest that public engagement contributes to both policy stability and positive public perceptions of policy. Though instrumental, the book also underscores that inclusive authoritarianism depends on the voluntary participation of Chinese citizens, which is far from guaranteed"--

Retrofitting Leninism

Author : Dimitar D. Gueorguiev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197555705
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Retrofitting Leninism written by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Retrofitting Leninism explores the relationship between political inclusion and political control through the lens of participatory governance in the People's Republic of China. The book can be condensed into three key points. First, public participation is a prerequisite for effective administration, irrespective of how a regime is constituted. Second, a regime's ability to solicit, process, and recast public input into policy outputs is central to its political durability. Third, technological advances in communication make it easier for authoritarian regimes, particularly those with Leninist foundations, to correspond with the public and thus undercut calls for genuine democratic progress--an endogenous process of regime maintenance I refer to as retrofitting. Using archival data, media reports, and original opinion polls, I show how public inputs are incorporated into the marketing and implementation of top-down policy outputs. To unpack the interface between inputs and outputs, I focus on proposal-making and government priorities in local Chinese legislatures. Finally, to evaluate the downstream impact, I estimate the effect of open policymaking on sub-national regulation and government approval. The findings suggest that public engagement contributes to both policy stability and positive public perceptions of policy. Though instrumental, the book also underscores that inclusive authoritarianism depends on the voluntary participation of Chinese citizens, which is far from guaranteed"--

Leninism

Author : Joseph Stalin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777815
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Leninism written by Joseph Stalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.

Foundations of Leninism

Author : J. V. Stalin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794775293
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Leninism written by J. V. Stalin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1932 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unfinished Leninism

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464261
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Leninism written by Paul Le Blanc and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Paul Le Blanc's Lenin and the Revolutionary Party: "A work of unusual strength and coherence, inspired not by academic neutrality but by the deep conviction that there is much to learn from the actual ideas and experiences of Lenin." —Michael Löwy As a leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century. These clearly written essays offer an account of his life and times, a lively view of his personality, and a stimulating engagement with his ideas. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of history at La Roche College and has written widely on radical movements.

No Less Than Mystic

Author : John Medhurst
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910924482
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book No Less Than Mystic written by John Medhurst and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes. Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian Civil War and its aftermath, the book devotes more time than usual to the policies and actions of the socialist alternatives to Bolshevism – to the Menshevik Internationalists, the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), the Jewish Bundists and the anarchists. It prioritises Factory Committees, local Soviets, the Womens’ Zhenotdel movement, Proletkult and the Kronstadt sailors as much as the statements and actions of Lenin and Trotsky. Using the neglected writings and memoirs of Mensheviks like Julius Martov, SRs like Victor Chernov, Bolshevik oppositionists like Alexandra Kollontai and anarchists like Nestor Makhno, it traces a revolution gone wrong and suggests how it might have produced a more libertarian, emancipatory socialism than that created by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Although the book broadly covers the period from 1903 (the formation of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks) to 1921 (the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion) and explains why the Bolshevik Revolution degenerated so quickly into its apparent opposite, it continually examines the Leninist experiment through the lens of a 21st century, de-centralised, ecological, anti-productivist and feminist socialism. Throughout its narrative it interweaves and draws parallels with contemporary anti-capitalist struggles such as those of the Zapatistas, the Kurds, the Argentinean “Recovered Factories”, Occupy, the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Intersectional feminists, attempting to open up the past to the present and points in between. We do not need another standard history of the Russian Revolution. This is not one.

Leninism

Author : Alfred G. Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Leninism written by Alfred G. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a philosophy that is uncongenial to thinkers in our culture, Leninism comprised a set of uncomforatable and highly controversial ideas, the very preoccupation with which can serve, today, to compromise a writer. Since Leninism is at the same time deceptively crude and simple, at least in the way in which its advocates are wont to propound it, many students of political thought tend to consider it unworthy of serious attention. Hence, instead of inquiring what Leninism is, our social scientists have more often asked themselves why anyone might be prompted to turn to these ideas and follow the. The relevancy of any study of Leninism has been questioned. Its appeal has indeed been noted, and its official acceptance as virtual dogma in the entire communist world is acknowledged, but there is a good deal of dispute over the effectiveness of Leninist ideas even in this communist world.

A Look at Leninism

Author : Ron Taber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Look at Leninism written by Ron Taber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The State and Revolution

Author : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The State and Revolution written by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The State and Revolution' is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin's direct and simple definition of the State is that "the State is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class." Hence his denigration even of parliamentary democracy, which was influenced by what Lenin saw as the recent increase of bureaucratic and military influences: "To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics."

Leninism and Western Socialism

Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Leninism and Western Socialism written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundations of Leninism

Author : JOSEPH. STALIN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835100892
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Leninism written by JOSEPH. STALIN and published by . This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democratic Crossroads

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197762441
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Crossroads written by Richard Youngs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and geopolitical conflict. In Democratic Crossroads, Richard Youngs argues these crises are altering the balance between democratic and authoritarian dynamics around the world. Yet while they add to the strains on democracy, they are also awakening a momentum of democratic resilience and renewal. He argues that to deal with the era's momentous challenges, democratic politics need a major boost and reboot. Without stronger commitments to uphold and improve democratic norms and practices, democracy may not weather these challenges. As Youngs shows, far-reaching democratic innovation that gives citizens effective influence over epoch-defining matters will help ensure that democratic values are more vigorously defended. In a moment of pivotal change, this book explains how democracies can retain their resiliency and highlights the key factors that will determine democracy's fortunes in the future.

The Emergence of China's Smart State

Author : Rogier Creemers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538184427
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of China's Smart State written by Rogier Creemers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more assertive internationally. Chinese companies have expanded at home and abroad, but relationships between government and the private sector have sometimes been fractious. The Emergence of China’s Smart State assesses the extent to which the Chinese government has been able to achieve its ambitious digital goals, and more broadly, how this reflects rapidly changing domestic and international political and economic dynamics surrounding China’s rise as a major technology player. This is the first book of its kind, interrogating the complex, dynamic interactions between political, market, and technological factors that structure China’s digital development. It will provide information and intellectual frameworks for scholars, policymakers, and professionals to appreciate the complexity of China’s digital policy landscape, the process of learning and iteration the Party continues to experience as external events impact the policy process, and the impact China’s innovation policies, regulations, and achievements have had, or may have, in the future.

The World Crisis and International Law

Author : Paul B. Stephan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100932098X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The World Crisis and International Law written by Paul B. Stephan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. The world faces threats of war, pandemics, growing domestic political discord, climate change, disruption of international trade and investment, immigration, and the pollution of cyberspace, just as international law increasingly falls short as a tool for managing these challenges. Prosperity dependent on meritocracy, open borders, international economic freedom, and a wide-open Internet has met its limits, with international law one of the first casualties. Any effective response to these threats must reflect the pathway by which these perils arrive. Part of the answer to these challenges, Paul B. Stephan argues, must include a re-conception of international law as arising out of pragmatic and limited experiments by states, rather than as grand projects to remake and redeem the world.

Outsourcing Repression

Author : Lynette H. Ong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197628761
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing Repression written by Lynette H. Ong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulldozers, violent thugs, and nonviolent brokers -- The theory : state power, repression, and implications for development -- Outsourcing violence : everyday repression via thugs-for-hire -- Case studies : thugs-for-hire, repression, and mobilization -- Networks of state infrastructural power : brokerage, state penetration, and mobilization -- Brokers in harmonious demolition : mass mobilizers, mediators, and huangniu -- Comparative context : South Korea and India.

China in Revolution

Author : Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538162784
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book China in Revolution written by Joseph W. Esherick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes eleven seminal essays by one of America’s leading authorities on modern Chinese history with an illuminating preface by Prof. Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University. it covers a range of topics from the impact of imperialism to the 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre. Chapters include an explanation of how China expanded its borders far beyond the Han Chinese heartland and maintained those borders in the transition from empire to nation; how Sun Yat-sen unexpectedly emerged as the Father of the Country; and how a series of unexpected and contingent events brought the empire down in 1911. Despite conventional representations of a static and unified China, this book proves Chinese society to be diverse and constantly changing—especially after the Communist revolution which was a transformative event in modern Chinese history. Esherick denounces traditional imagery of cultural uniformity, which derives from excessive attention to the unitary state, through chapters that explore the impact of the 1937-45 War of Resistance against Japan, the dramatic wartime transformation of Chinese society in both Communist and Nationalist (Guomindang) areas, and the nature of the new Communist regime in Northwest China. In his book, Esherick examines both the Marxist-Leninist theory behind Mao’s notion of the “restoration of capitalism,” against which he waged the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and the political theater of the 1989 protest movement. Throughout the book the contingency of history, the need for careful empirical research, and the important yet limited role of history is highlighted as the key to understanding the present or predicting the future of China.