East-West Center: Disincentives for Democratic Change in China

Author: Teresa Wright
February 2007

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Despite widespread and growing mass disturbances in China in recent years, there is little indication of increased public interest in promoting liberal democracy says the East-West Center. A key part of the explanation is that, in China, capitalist economic development has emerged from a socialist, planned economy characterized by substantial economic equality.

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