Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. ... During the 19th century China finally saw fall towards the West through unfair trade impositions and regulations, and after World War II the Chinese Communist Party took control of the China that is known today. Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, s...

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How successful have the post-communist states been in establishing a stable democracy? Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. ... The conclusion will state the different success rates of the post-communist countries, and how each hopes to improve. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... The first thing for Poland to do was the immediate removal of communist bar on competitive multiparty elections. ...

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Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... Furthermore, the Romanian Government has skillfully played its cards close to its chest in as far as comments on last year's strained political circumstances in the Re-public of Moldavia are concerned, whose communist government had repeatedly ac-cused Romania of interfering in its internal affairs. ... Thus, in October 2002, the Hungarian president Ferenc Madl ...

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The biggest difference between China and those other three countries in government structure is that China is a Communist country while those other countries are democratic countries. Certainly, there are both pros and cons regarding those two different types of government structures.Within communist countries people are worried mostly about the independence in law which leads to corruption within the country. ... Furthermore, because the Chinese government is communist, it gives China a huge advantage over other developing democratic countries for many reasons. ... " (Weige China) With t...

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Based on an analysis of democratic transition in three former communist countries, he distinguishes five necessary conditions to make a successful transition possible. Because of its communist background, the theory of McFaul could offer a possible explanation why Russia did not change into a proper democracy so far. ...

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However, in 1975, with the rise of the communist left, Cambodia experienced an era that, although would only last a mere four years, forever changed the country. ... Furthermore, while Prime Minister Hun Sen is known to have been a part of the Khmer Rouge Army, the CCP itself claims no ideological linkage to communist roots or in fact, any sort of political ideology. ...

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