1. Dahl's Concept of Participation and Contestation
... China's historical legacy of over 2,000 years of centralized authoritarian rule has buttressed the current regime. In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains the essential organization structure that the Chinese communist party adopted from the Soviet Union. Although the reformist leaders in China have embraced the concept of market freedom rejecting Marx's idea, their decision to ... retain a closed political structure is very much in accord with Lenin's vision of the communist part-state. (O'Neil (2010) page 297) According to Dahl, the definition of...
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