POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Benevolent Dictatorship, Foreign Direct Investment, Beijing Consensus
25 Mar 2016
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Mao dies in 1976, xiao-ping comes into power. We expected this to happen in china in the 1970"s. It would happen under xiao-ping and china"s four. Agriculture people would get farms back and work in them. Creaion of the private sector market based incenives to allow china to become modern. Naional defense military modernizaion and industrializaion. China would allow for science and technology they would take foreign technology and foreign investment. Once again, china is modernizing, therefore we should see democracy. In 1978 fdi was 0 in china (foreign direct investment) We see in china economic modernizaion, we see it becoming more urban, more literate, chinese being lited out of poverty, more wired technologically. In other words, we should expect a democraic opening in china according to the modernization. First challenge: authoritarianism is good for china: stability and economic growth -- chinese view democracy as chaoic; authoriies on the other side, provides a harmonious society .
