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

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

Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining...
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Author: Guoguang Wu
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China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation by Wu, Guoguang

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

$150.78
China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation by Wu, Guoguang

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

$150.78
Author: Guoguang Wu
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy, and explores why such a formal performance of congress meetings, delegate discussions, and non-democratic elections is significant for authoritarian politics more broadly. Taking institutional inconsistency as the central research question, this study presents a new theory of 'mutual contextualization' to reveal how informal politics and formal institutions interact with each other. Wu argues that despite the prevalence of informal politics behind the scenes, authoritarian politics seeks legitimization through a combination of political manipulation and the ritual mobilization of formal institutions. This ambitious book is essential reading for all those interested in understanding contemporary China, and an innovative theoretical contribution to the study of comparative politics.

Author: Guoguang Wu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/01/2017
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781107442207

About the Author
Wu, Guoguang: - Guoguang Wu is Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was involved in China's Party Congress as a policy advisor to then Party Chief Zhao Ziyang and a member of the draft group of the Central Committee's report to the Congress. The author, co-author and editor of twenty-two books in both English and Chinese, he is also a contributor to journals including Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, the Pacific Review, Social Research, and Third World Quarterly.
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