Adjunct Professor, Political Science

POL 310, Comparative Political Systems

Administratively, The People's Republic of China is made up of twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, and four centrally administered cities, and one Special Administrative Region.

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

The PRC is one of only a few countries in the world that is still a Communist party-state. This is a political system which the ruling Communist Party holds a monopoly on political power, claims the right to lead or control all government and social institutions, and proclaims allegiance (at least officially) to the ideology of Marxism-Leninism.

The PRC can be compared with other Communist party-states with which it shares or has shared many political and ideolo

The government of the PRC is organizationally and functionally distinct from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The power of the Communist Party-particularly the nearly unchecked power of the top twenty-five or thirty leaders-is at the heart of governance and policy-making in China. Party domination, however, does not mean that the system "operates in a monolithic way". In fact, the system "wriggles with politics" of many kinds, formal and informal.

Economic reform in China has already created groups and processes, interests and ideas that are likely to become sources of pressure for more and faster political change. The experience of the newly industrializing countries and other developing countries suggest that such pressures are likely to intensify as the economy and society continue to modernize. Consequently, at some point in the not-too-distant future, the CCP may again face the challenge of the democratic idea.

The growth of China's economy, since Deng Xiaoping began his market-oriented reform

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Approximate Word count = 685
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)