China and East Asia: September 2004

Beijing's Ambivalent Reformers

By: Bruce J. Dickson

Description: "The party has implemented various modest reforms in recent years. Some are designed to allow the party to implement its policy agenda more efficiently. Others aim to make it more responsive to a changing society, or at least to appear so. All are designed to perpetuate the Communist Party's rule, not necessarily to make China more democratic."

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