An Outline for Studying the New Authoritarianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6045592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wu Jiaxiang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 16-23 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Chinese Sociology & Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-4625 • E-ISSN: 1558-1004 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/csa0009-4625230316 |
| OpenAlex | W2012158338 |
| Language | EN |
1. We live in an age of great choices: Whether we step into an historical cycle of traditional autocracy and anarchic chaos, or enter the threshold toward modernization will largely depend on the choices we make. First, it will be determined by the rationality of this generation of the intellectual elite. China has already paid for the romanticism, the naivete, and the gullibility of the previous generation of intellectuals. I do not know if they have any sense of their own culpability for this
Authoritarianism · Autocracy · China · Culpability · Democracy · Economics · Elite · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rationality · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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