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 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 p...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: China's Party Congress as the theater 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: the Party Constitution in political configuration.
- 6 Elections as instruments of autocracy: the essence and nuisance of formalistic voting7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.