From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978

viii, 366 pp. An analysis of politics in the People's Republic of China, intended to demonstrate the usefulness of the bandwagon and balance-of-power theories of politics... the distinctly different methodology on which the author relies emphasizes the causal significance of the political arena rather than the attributes of and interactions among the actors that populate it.