China’s Path from Communism

The Chinese state has become more efficient, constrained, and responsive—improvements that could lay a base for a successful transition.

A quarter-century after the classic study The Crisis of Democracy was published, three distinguished political scientists find that, though the “crisis” may have disappeared, public confidence is on the decline…

China’s 1989 democracy movement was brutally suppressed, but a former student leader argues that it also planted the seeds for the growth of Chinese civil society and for future democratization.