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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wu, Guoguang (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Zhongguo gong chan dang. > Quan guo dai biao da hui. Zhongguo gong chan dang > Party work. Zhongguo gong chan dang > Platforms. Political leadership > China. China > Politics and government > 1949-

Table of Contents:

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.