Factors Which Have Hindered the Democratization of China Since 1919
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Democratization is a transition towards a political regime that is more democratic, including legislative changes that are substantive going towards a direction of democracy. The development may be from an authoritarian regime towards complete freedom. Democratization is more often used to explain different political phenomena. Such events include whether a country is prepared to go to war or if there is growth in the economy—various factors such as history, economics, and culture as the limiting factors of Democratization. However, other factors such as denial for civil rights, lack of free and fair elections, and accountability of leaders in China act as limiting factors of Democratization.
At the time when the Chinese were facing severe domestic challenges, some elites came out frequently and arouse the internal nationalism exclusion for the mobilization of social and group loyalty towards international representation purposes and local planning towards an essential nation-building condition. At this time, depending on the identified domestic enemies at different times in the national identity of Chinese, various socio-economic, political, ethnic, and religious groups were denied access to equal rights and popular sovereignty. Additionally, Chinese characters towards politics therefore linked to foreigners. However, during the twentieth century, constitutional history in China was a series of disenchantments. First, democracy in China was related to modernization to be more powerful. China must, however, ensure it stays away from cultural heritage. It blames the Confucian bits, for its backwardness towards achieving democracy.
Since the time of optimum war in 1840, China has, however, gone down to be a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country whereby it suffered from enslavement, aggression, and plunder from significant imperialism powers. Therefore, this has made China loose democratic practice and tradition in the past. In 1911 Revolution resulted at the end of the feudal monarchy in China and opened an opportunity for the ancient nation to smell some democracy Jeans, (1997). However, these efforts didn’t bring democracy but to enlighten the Chinese elites to carry the cause of justice forward. China struggles for years on autocracy and democracy, mostly after engaging in a fight to fight towards national emancipation and foreign aggression resistance for years. Moreover, China has not only been able to make good progress but also drew lessons and made mistakes in pursuit of democracy.
When the Republic of China (ROC) got established, a limited period of restoration of monarch dethroned experienced in China whereby the dictatorship of de facto, which was headed by Sun’s nationalist, came out. According to Liu (2004), Chinese support was lost and then thrown by the communist party from the mainland. CPP, however, outlined the benefits of democracy, mostly the famous leader of the Chinese movement Chen Duxiu. He, however, stated that PRC P, founded in 1949, acted as a milestone in the history of Chinese. Mao Zedong indicated that the only way for the Chinese government to survive was only through democracy
The state of China’s economy has turned out to be a factor as to why China has not been able to achieve equality. The incredible economic boom has been one of the limiting factors as to why Democratization in China has not delivered. China has been able to stay away from political reform since Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) have delayed legislative changes as they have made a surrounding that is suitable for rejection of their improvements. The reason behind which denial is made by Chinese in the wrong way towards political reforms. The wrong choices of leaders by the Chinese citizens barred democracy in the Republic of China. Additionally, China was able to set State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and ensured experiments for economic reforms were earlier separated before the FDs became more popular in China. However, FDIs have made China’s economic competitiveness by providing China is encouraged to participate in democracy as well as sustaining its economy. For example, economic reforms that were instituted by Deng in 1979 have forced china to move towards worldwide prominence. Thus, administration reforms formed a market economy that stated direct and subservient towards established objectives by the political leaders. After the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, communists started fearing that their rule might not survive the market reforms.
In contrast, those who are more educated can get a clear understanding of the federal government and its impacts. According to Chin (2016), China finds itself in a position where it faces difficulties in engaging itself in politics due to the retaliation of the government. Balancing educated and uneducated can bring about stability to China through transition, therefore, boosting democracy.
The Chinese still practice their culture, which has made them not to have a sound democracy. The people of China have a belief that moving towards Democratization will affect their perception. The undecided majority decided to move towards Democratization since they have hope in growth in the economy and social stability to be more critical as compared to political participation, freedom of expression, and other different democratic rights. However, people from the republic of China believe in understanding local affairs more than international relations Gibler & Owsiak (2018). They also insist that they could be good leaders in the local government as compared to the foreign government. Less educated people in China found to know very little about the national government.
Conclusively, Democratization might get used more often to explain different political phenomena. Various factors such as history, economics, and culture considered as the limiting factors of Democratization. China has therefore been able to stay away from political reform since FDIs have delayed legislative changes since they have made a surrounding that is suitable for reform rejection for the time being. However, people from the republic of China believe in understanding local affairs more than international relations. Since the time of optimum war in 1840, China has, however, gone down to be a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country whereby it suffered from enslavement, aggression, and plunder from significant imperialism powers. The CPP stated the importance of democracy, mostly Chen Duxiu, a leader of the famous Chinese movement.
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Chin, S. (2016). Correctly Handled Contradictions: A Regional Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Democratization in China. BOARD OF EDITORS, 25.
Gibler, D. M., & Owsiak, A. P. (2018). Democracy and the Settlement of International Borders, 1919 to 2001. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62(9), 1847-1875.
Jeans, R. B. (1997). Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carson Chang), 1906-1941. Rowman & Littlefield.
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Liu, K. (2004). Globalization and cultural trends in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
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