Reviving legitimacy : lessons for and from China / edited by Deng Zhenglai and Sujian Guo.

"This book is a collection of papers from an international conference entitled "Legitimacy and Governance" from July 3-4, 2010 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. The conference was hosted and organized by the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Reviving Legitimacy; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction A Cosmopolitan Moment of Legitimacy and Governance; Part 1 Legitimacy in Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Typological Analysis of Democratic Legitimacy; 2 What Is Political Legitimacy and How Can It Be Acquired? Lessons from a Deviant Case; 3 International Dimensions of Legitimacy: Reflections on Western Theories and the Chinese Experience; 4 ""Adaptive Authoritarianism"" in Contemporary China: Identifying Zones of Legitimacy Building

5 Re-conceptualizing ""Legitimacy"" for Studying Village Elections in ChinaPart 2 Reviving Legitimacy in China; 6 Confucianism as a Legitimizing Ideology; 7 Legitimizing Leninism; 8 Authoritarian Legitimacy and Legitimation in Contemporary China; 9 ""Performance Legitimacy"" and China's Political Adaptation Strategy; 10 Morality, Benevolence, and Responsibility: Regime Legitimacy in China from Past to the Present; Index

This fascinating collection of papers on China's ongoing efforts in reviving legitimacy has approached the issue of legitimacy from both normative and empirical perspectives, and from Western and Chinese perspectives, thus this edited volume offers lessons and insights for and from China, and contributes to the ongoing theoretical debates as well as empirical research on legitimacy in the Chinese context.

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