Introduction : assessing China's political development / Cheng Li -- China's political trajectory : what are the Chinese saying? / Andrew J. Nathan -- Ideological change and incremental democracy in reform-era China / Yu Keping -- Institutionalization and the changing dynamics of Chinese leadership politics / Alice L. Miller -- Institutionalization of political succession in China : progress and implications / Jing Huang -- Will China's "lost generation" find a path to democracy? / Cheng Li -- Business interest groups in Chinese politics : the case of the oil companies / Erica S. Downs -- China's left tilt : pendulum swing or midcourse correction? / Barry Naughton -- Political implications of China's information revolution : the media, the minders, and their message / Richard Baum -- Legalization without democratization in China under Hu Jintao / Jacques deLisle -- Staying in power : what does the Chinese Communist Party have to do? / Joseph Fewsmith -- Fighting corruption: a difficult challenge for Chinese leaders / Minxin Pei -- The political implications of China's social future : Complacency, scorn, and the forlorn / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Straining against the yoke? civil-military relations in China after the Seventeenth Party Congress / James Mulvenon -- Learning from abroad to reinvent itself : external influences on internal CCP reforms / David Shambaugh -- Taiwan and China's democratic future : can the tail wag the dog? / Yun-han Chu.

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