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- Copyright
- 1982 The Academy of Political Science
- ISSN
- 0032-3195
- eISSN
- 1538-165X
- DOI
- 10.2307/2149840
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Abstract
BOOK REVIEWS | 745 deals with so vast an area and so varied a culture?) nor to advocat e a program of action to ameliorate their condition. As such it is not fair to judge it by strict scholarly standard or s political ones. As a journalistic account ,however, it succeeds well in introducing the gen eral Western reader to a much misunderstood and misjudged aspect of reality in the Mid dle East and North Africa. fiMKL Rassam Queens College, City University of New York The Dynamics of Chinese Politics by Lucien Pye. Cambridge, Mass., Oelge- schlager, Gunn and Hain, 1981. 306 pp. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $9.95. This engrossing and sophisticate d work attempts to penetrate the often opaque nature of Chinese political behavior by defining some key patterns and principles. Lucien Pye’s central theme is tha ttension is created between the imperative of consensus, on the one hand, and anxiety-produced particularist ic relationships, on the other. These specia lre lationships, which undermine consensus and produce factions, are a much decried but enduring feature of elite political behavior. Pye argues tha tthe psychocultural roots of factionalism have remained unchanged despite the innovations of Marxism-Leninism , Maoism, and modernization. Although
Journal
Political Science Quarterly – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 15, 1982