POL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Grassroots Democracy, Liberal Democracy, Metapolitefsi

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 314
• Professor: Deng

Document Summary

Political reforms, political legitimacy, democratization, the pu(cid:396)pose of chi(cid:374)a"s politi(cid:272)al (cid:396)efo(cid:396)(cid:373)s: c(cid:396)eate a (cid:862)good go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863): (cid:396)athe(cid:396) tha(cid:374) democratization in a western sense. Enhance rather than weakening the legitimacy of the ccp regime: chinese understanding of democracy is essentially instrumental understanding: De(cid:373)o(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)(cid:455) is the (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s of a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)i(cid:374)g good go(cid:448)"t, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is the goal. Issues of political legitimacy: ccp suffered a legitimacy crisis in the late 1970s (cid:862)the (cid:272)(cid:396)isis of faith(cid:863), (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ated that the communist ideology could no longer be a viable soure of legitimacy. I(cid:374) fa(cid:272)t, (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al se(cid:374)ti(cid:373)e(cid:374)t has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) st(cid:396)o(cid:374)g i(cid:374) chi(cid:374)a throughout the 20th century. Historically, big economic gap tended to give rise to social unrest. Chinese traditional culture has emphasized the need to narrow the economic gap as a way to achieve social harmony. Many european countries in the 19th to early 20th century. Russia in much of the 20th century: east asian countries achieved industrialization and high growth rate under authoritarianism.