Quality of governance in non-democratic systems: the Chinese system as a model

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Lecturer of Political Science - Department of Political Science and Public Administration - Faculty of Commerce - Assiut University

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This paper aims to understand, explain, and analyze the quality of governance in non-democratic regimes. Much of Western literature stresses that the only path for improving the governance quality is achieving democracy; however, this study proposes that explanation the quality of governance in non-democratic regimes follows a different perspective.  In this vein, the main research question is:  under what circumstances can the governance quality in non-democratic systems happen? The paper assumes that the governance quality in non-democratic regimes required the presence of two factors:  state capacity (bureaucratic-extractive-providing public services and goods) and regime willingness for quality of governance (pragmatic and moral motivations). The study applied this analytic framework to China as a case study. And it concluded that the Chinese regime's success in improving the quality of governance is due to its fulfillment of the two conditions since 1978.

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