Abstract
Since the university reform in 1952, the departments of politics in Chinese universities had been closed, and along with the closure, political studies had been broken off for 28 years until finally being recovered in 1980. Tinged with scientific socialism, the first textbook in politics after 1980, Introduction to Politics, approached the theories of state, government, class, political party, nation, and revolution with the tool of class analysis (Baoxu 1983). In a later book, The Logic of Politics: General Principles of Marxist Political Theory, Marxist political theory was systematically introduced because of its dominant place in China’s political ideology (Huning 1994). Other textbooks during the period were in a large part influenced by these two works, until the later part of the 1990s when interest analysis and “institutional analysis began to dominate the studies of political science in China (for details, see, Wang 1995; Yang 2007a).
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Notes
- 1.
Xu Xianglin, “From the Theory of Political Development to The Approach of Policy Process: Constructing the Middle-Range Theory Concerning the Chinese Political Reform” [Cong Zhengzhi Fazhan Lilun Dao Zhengce Guocheng Lilun: Zhongguo Zhengzhi Gaige de Zhongceng Lilun Jiangou Tantao], Journal of Chinese Social Science[Zhongguo Shehui Kexue], vol. 3 (2004), pp. 108–120.
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
Zheng Yongnian, “Humanistic Socialism, Political Transformation and The Governing Ability of The Party” [Renben Shehui Zhuyi, Zhengzhi Zhuanxing Jiqi Dang de Zhizheng Nengli], Paper for conference “Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on the Chinese Reform”2004.
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Ibid.
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For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party recognized the existence of different social interest groups in its Report on the 2nd Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee in 1988. As it states, “There are conflicts among different groups of people under the Socialist Regime.” Accordingly, Zheng Bijian, the renowned think tank, published an article in the People’s Daily(Renmin Ribao) to analyze the interest groups that emerged as a result of economic transformation. For details, see, “Great Change, Reconsider It” [Dabiandong, Zairenshi], People’s Daily, May 20, 1988.
- 6.
Yang Guangbin and Li Yuejun, “The Interest Group and Its Governance In Chinese Politics” [Zhongguo Zhengzhi Guocheng zhong de Liyi Jituan Jiqi Zhili], The Academia[Xuehai], no.2 (2008), pp.55–72.
- 7.
Ibid.
- 8.
Rong Jingben, Gao Xinjun, He Zengke, and Yang Xuedong, From the ‘Commanding Control System’ to the ‘Democratic Corporation System’: Political Reforms On the Level of County and Township.
- 9.
Ibid.
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Li Lianjiang and Kevin O’Brien, “Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China”. Comparative Politics,vol. 31, no.2 (1999), pp.167–186.
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Ibid.
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Yang, G., Li, M. (2013). Western Political Science Theories and the Development of Political Theories in China. In: Guo, S. (eds) Political Science and Chinese Political Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29590-4_4
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