Author: Goldstein, Avery
Title: From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics: Structural Constraints & Politics in China, 1949-1978
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1991. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix, 366 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Methodology: Systems & Structures; Theory: Balance-of-Power & Bandwagon Politics; Politics in the PRC Before the Cultural Revolution: Structure of the Bandwagon Polity: China, 1949-1966; Coalition Formation in the Bandwagon Polity; Bandwagon Politics & Agricultural Policy; Administrative Consequences of Bandwagon Politics; Politics in the PRC During the Cultural Revolution: Structural Transformation: From Hierarchy to Anarchy; Structure of the Balance-of-Power Polity: China, 1966-1978; Purge Politics in the Balance-of-Power Polity; Coalition Formation in the Balance-of-Power Polity; Administrative Consequences of Balance-of- Power Politics, Conclusion.

Keywords: Chinese Political History, East Asia Communist, Party Government, Administration, Cultural Revolution, Administrative, Bandwagon Polity, Balance-of-Power, Structural Politics