Reform without Liberalization : China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change

Omtale

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Mao's death in 1976, however, ushered in a new era of political reform which has included the strengthening of the NPC.