"Forms of government defying classification" [2019] ELECD 1893; in Popovic, Dragoljub (ed), "Comparative Government" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 237

Book Title: Comparative Government

Editor(s): Popović, Dragoljub

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Forms of government defying classification

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

The world today embraces systems of government in different countries that which defy classification and cannot be treated as belonging to any of the forms of government discussed in the preceding chapters. Such systems of government are either traditionally religious or based on the communist doctrine. The author takes the latter as an example in this chapter. It is the system of government in China, a country that has been subject to reforms for decades. Those reforms, however, were devoted more to the organisation of the economy, and only partially and not sufficiently in terms of the modern state, to the sphere of political life. The author discusses the constitutional system of China and points to the question arising in academia on its future. The author remains mostly optimistic, expecting evolution towards a slow growth of democratic capacity within the country.