China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization
has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global …

Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most
profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres …

All ruling communist parties have allocated career opportunities to the loyal in an effort to
promote conformity and discipline within their ranks and among their subjects. Yet little is …

In a new branch of a discipline, it is possible to point to its academic pioneers and their
individual contributions. This is the case with administrative reform which was in the 1960s …

The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese
Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long history of the party's inability to …

Using an analytical, comparative approach that examines communist regimes from Moscow
and Beijing to Havana and Kampuchea, Leslie Holmes argues that the extraordinarily rapid …

Background As early as the 1950s, and more systematically since the late 1960s, Hungary
led the way of economic reform in state socialism. Other models of market socialism were …

It all began when angry villagers accused the Party secretary of turning off the electricity to
an ice lolly (binggunr or popsicle) factory whose owner had refused to pay bribes. The lolly …

In the practice of social science, the most conspicuous recent attempt at theorizing about
nonconformity and protest in late communism rests on the conceptual schema of 'civil …