Reform without Liberalization by Kevin J. O'Brien - 9780521380867

Reform without LiberalizationChina's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change\nAuthor(s): Kevin J. O'Brien\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521380867, 978-0521380867\nSynopsis\nSince its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement [tel] to the Great Leap Forward [tel] to the Cultural Revolution [tel] frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy concerning the appropriate role of the legislature within the one-party, Maoist regime. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC. In this detailed study of the NPC, Kevin O'Brien examines how the NPC h.