30 Years After Tiananmen: The Young and the Restless

Authors

Bruce Gilley, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Journal of Democracy

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

4-1-2019

Abstract

China's ruling Communist Party is admired by specialists for its seeming ability to deliver all kinds of things without democracy-elite stability, good governance, legitimacy, capitalist growth, and a middle class. But in all these areas, durable achievements have proven elusive. A president for life, worsening governance, and ticking time bombs of slow growth and fiscal deficits threaten stability. The balance of forces still favors the status quo, but the regime worries about a tilt in the odds. Outside of top cities, meanwhile, China's growing ranks of disgruntled single males are slipping from the control of the Party's social-monitoring system.

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Copyright © 2019 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2019.0023

DOI

10.1353/jod.2019.0023

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28759

Citation Details

Gilley, B. (2019). 30 Years After Tiananmen: The Young and the Restless. Journal of Democracy, 30(2), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2019.0023