The Nature of Civil Disobedience Movement at the Time of Hu Jintao Administration - Дипломная работа

Government of the Russian Federation National Research University Higher School of Economics Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs School of Asian Studies Masters Programme Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia MASTER’S THESIS The Nature of Civil Disobedience Movement at the Time of Hu Jintao Administration Student Aleksey Chigadaev Scientific Advisor Alexandra A. Sizova, AlekseyA. Maslov Moscow 2016 Content Introduction 1. The Socioeconomic Reforms in the Context of Harmonious Society Philosophy as Hu Jintao Administration Fundamental Policy 1.1 Definition of Harmony 1.2 Major Issues on Constructing a Socialist Harmonious Society 1.3 Comparison of the Harmony Notions 1.4 The Results of Socioeconomic Reforms in Context of Political Discourse 2. The Nature of Civil Disobedience Movement and the Socioeconomic Factors Triggering Acts of Civil Disobedience 2.1 The Evidence of Social Unrest 2.2 Classifying Social Unrest 2.3 Motivation for Civil Disobedience 3. Coordination of State and Society 3.1 Social Portrait of Protesters and Evolution of the Claims 3.2 The Model of Dispute Resolution and State Response 3.3 Succession of Harmonious Society Policy Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Introduction It’s important to analyze the future of political and socioeconomic development of People’s Republic of China (hereinafter, PRC) as this is a country with the 1,4 billion population and one of the leading economies in the world. In such circumstances, the stability of Chinese society seems to be the core factor of the global peace. There are a number of sociopolitical issues unresolved during the Hu Jintao Administration period that provoked different types of mass demonstrations, strikes and interventions against governments. At that time government was considered as corrupt and authoritarian, to some point of view. Does China remain a one-party system state with strict political vertical power? Would it be transformed into something new? There is a rapid growth in the public protests number and scale in 2003-2013. According to some scientists’ point of view, this is the effect of unsuccessful Hu Administration’s social reforms. It means that Harmonious Society policy is failed. The government has to find some new tools of responding to growing society’s needs. In this way the new Administration that is under the rule of Xi Jinping has a chance to analyze the past experience and make all relevant reforms. On the other hand, some researchers say that the Chinese society future is a simply social decay. The Communist party of China (hereinafter, CPC) capability to face growing society needs in such things as democracy, human rights and social inequality is limited by its communist ideology. Under the circumstances, the only way to satisfy the society requirements is a system collapse and the democratization process in Western manner. The subject under investigation is a nature of socioeconomic issues that led up to the mass riots, civil disobedience acts and demonstrations in PRC, excluding the Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China (hereinafter, SAR) Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan at the time of Hu Jintao Administration from 2003 to 2013. The goal is to analyze the causes of mass riots and forecast the possibility of PRC long political stability under the Xi Jinping Administration, focusing on following research tasks: • underline the causes of civil disobedience acts during the Hu Jintao Administration rule on the base of relevant statistic data and mass media publications (economical, political, etc.), and formulate the basic claims of protesters in socioeconomic field; • to evaluate the difference in claims through the 10 years; • to describe the main actors of the civil disobedience movement - social groups, professional groups, including the level of education, average income, age of protesters etc.; • to analyze the Hu Jintao Administration reaction and methods used in mass riots resolving; • to make an attempt based on the material mentioned above to forecast the future political and socioeconomic stability in PRC under the Xi Jinping Administration rule. There are two hypotheses we are going to testify. First of all, in the absence of effective channels for interaction between society and the state represented by the CPC, the number of civil disobedience acts will continuously increase. In the distant future it will lead to the social stability collapse. The second one claims that the policy of Harmonious Society is ineffective attempt to prevent the growing level of social unrest. As long as the subject under study is the nature of socioeconomic issues that led up to the mass riots, civil disobedience acts and demonstrations in PRC during the time of Hu Jintao Administration, we are going to analyze the policy line and the relevant social environment. In this case we are going to use the qualitative observational research. The qualitative research focuses on ev