TY - BOOK AU - Zhenglai,Deng AU - Ahlers,Anna L. AU - Chan,Alfred L. AU - Chu,Yun-han AU - Guo,Sujian AU - Ho,C.S.Bryan AU - Holbig,Heike AU - Huang,Min-hua AU - Mahoney,Josef Gregory AU - Moody,Peter R. TI - Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China T2 - Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development Series SN - 9780739168882 AV - JQ1516.R68 2011 U1 - 320.951 PY - 2011/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - Legitimacy of governments--China KW - China--Politics and government--2002 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 China -- Part 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4530140 ER -