Folgen ihrer Politik zu vermeiden. Eine Auswertung von Protestereignissen in China zeigt, dass es der chinesischen Führung …Unconventional participation is by no means regime-threatening per se, not even in an au-thoritarian regime like China …. On the contrary, the Chinese government has been able to generate legitimacy by tolerating certain forms of …

-institutional approach. -- regime legitimacy ; China ; Chinese Communist Party ; performance ; nationalism ; ideology ; culturalism …The contemporary politics of China reflect an ongoing effort by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to claim the … right to rule in light of the consequences of economic development, international pressures, and historical change. China …

examines two cases of reformed communist regimes (China and Vietnam) with two relatively unreformed cases (North Korea and Cuba …, the article compares two ideal-type approaches to ideology in autocratic regimes. The first approach emphasizes semantic … ‘freezing’ over time. The consistency and coherence of ideology is underlined. The second approach argues that the success of an …

legitimacy crises compared to other authoritarian regimes. -- Institutional change ; political legitimacy ; ideology ; Socialism …As a Socialist country undergoing rapid social and economic transition, China presents a revealing case study on the … role of ideology in the process of institutional change. Based on Douglass North's theory of institutional change and on …