In this paper, the author attempts to answer the question:'Is Communist Party Rule
Sustainable in China?'It is widely believed that the rise of China has presented one of the …

One of the major issues of concern in contemporary China as well as in the international
community is the direction and manner in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will …

News and analyses from China point to growing internal unrest, an increasing number of
strikes, upheavals, protests and other signs that the authority of the Chinese Communist …

It has not been easy for the scholarly community to answer this question. Indeed,
immediately after the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989, MacFarquhar …

There has always been a lack of democratic life in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Former CCP Secretary General Hu Jintao attempted in the first decade of the twenty-first …

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is not withering away as predicted by some Western
scholars. On the contrary, in recent years, the party has centralised and strengthened its rule …

China has been experiencing a dynamic process of economic reform and social
modernisation for more than 25 years now. For those who follow the country's transformation …

After some years of relative quiescence, the question of China's possible democratization
has once again been raised, both by those in China who hope that progress toward …

Despite the many reforms of the post-Mao era, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains
the most important political actor in China and therefore the most crucial factor in …

This thesis studies the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s capacity to rule in contemporary
China by examining (a) its quest for popular legitimacy and (b) its search for party cohesion …