I found an article, Devin Helton’s Democracy versus Autocracy: A False Dichotomy, that isn’t directly about modern China but does suggest that I shouldn’t have been as surprised by its level of governance relative to the US as I was. I still really want to have a good gears-level model of how politics and government works in China and how that level of governance is achieved, if anyone has good resources for that.
I found an article, Devin Helton’s Democracy versus Autocracy: A False Dichotomy, that isn’t directly about modern China but does suggest that I shouldn’t have been as surprised by its level of governance relative to the US as I was. I still really want to have a good gears-level model of how politics and government works in China and how that level of governance is achieved, if anyone has good resources for that.