中国法律博客

Excellent post by Will Lewis on governance issues. The discussion stems from some World Bank rankings, but Will muses about what factors a Chinese government official would most value. No surprise that stability is the first thing that pops into his mind (me too).

This gets much more interesting when Will decides to make comparisons, particularly when he talks about China vs. US:

China has proven much more stable over the past 30 years than many countries of Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, several of which have had violent, military, or major but peaceful transfers of power in that same time frame. And that is impressive on China's part. But when we start using the stability indicator to compare China with representative democracies we get caught on some snags.

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