Background Although Chinese leadership has become infamous for undertaking economic
without political reform, important but often-overlooked changes in the formal system by …

Post-Mao politics in the People's Republic of China has been largely the politics of reform.
Probably crucial to the success of all other reforms is the major effort to restore and develop …

A listing of the Central Committee “leading groups”(lingdao xiaozu 领导小组), or just “small
groups”(xiaozu 小组), that are directly subordinate to the Party Secretariat and report to the …

This article addresses some of the most important mechanisms and instruments in the
Communist Party of China's (CPC) management of key officials and administrative …

Leadership has long been at the crux of Chinese political studies. In a society where the
succession process is not fully institutionalized, evaluation of politics relies extensively on …

Leadership has long been an important subject of Chi-nese political studies, and many
scholars have focused on the Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to …

The Chinese party-state is restructuring its governing institutions, and is reinventing itself in
the process. China is not only remaking its public management, but it is also restructuring its …

This study argues against the view that the capacity of the central state has declined in the
reform era in China. It examines how reforms have been introduced into the old system of …

" Political parties are pivotal institutions, in democratic and authoritarian contexts alike.
Almost all seventy-one non-democracies, in 2015 governing 44% of the world population …

Since the late 1980s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has weathered a series of crises
but continues to dominate the Chinese political scene. Although the CCP has laid out rules …