1st Edition

Authoritarian Powers Russia and China Compared

Edited By Stephen White, Ian Mcallister, Neil Munro Copyright 2018
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

The statistics detailing the socioeconomic growth of Russia and China are impressive. On some projections, China will be the world’s largest economy by 2050, and Russia will be the sixth largest. Yet despite this impressive record of economic growth, a striking feature of both countries is the inegalitarian nature of their development – notwithstanding the (post)communist legacy. On most... Read more

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Biography

Stephen White is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.



Ian McAllister is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The Australian National University.



Neil Munro is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.