China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation

ISBN-13: 9781107442207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 380 str.

Guoguang Wu

Opis

The first scholarly analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress.

Recenzje

'The book is insightful about the actual operations of the Congress and is filled with useful information on its evolution as an institution, especially since the seventh Party Congress in 1945. It is a good reference for students of Chinese politics.' Zhiyue Bo, The China Journal

Spis treści

1. Introduction: China's Party Congress as the theatre of power; 2. Institutions manipulated, legitimacy ritualized: a theory of authoritarian legitimization; 3. 'Meeting for unity and victory': the political art of running the Party Congress; 4. Between political principle and the practice of power: the making and remaking of the Party platform; 5. Norms versus operations: Party constitution in political configuration; 6. Elections as instruments of autocracy: the essence and nuisance of formalistic voting; 7. Conclusion.