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 …

Nomenklatura, which establishes Party and governmental leadership in China, is a key
instrument of Communist Party control. Changes in the nomenklatura reveal shifts and …

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 …

There have been noteworthy changes in the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party
assess, use, and manage its cadres under different historical conditions. Such changes are …

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 …

This article explores two interrelated aspects of the new dynamics within the CCP leadership–
the new elite groups and the new ground rules in Chinese politics. The first shows profound …

This article examines the evolution of the effort to intro-duce a civil service system in China. It
began with the proposal in Zhao Ziyang's Report to the 13th Congress of the Communist …

A contended issue currently debated is whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can
adapt to the new era. There are two diverging views on this highly ideologically charged …

This article joins the debate on the increasingly consultative nature of Chinese politics by
adding the role of the Local People's Congress (LPC). In contrast to previous research on …

This chapter addresses the important issue of bianzhi and cadre management at the local
level in China. The bianzhi system is a system for creating and deleting posts based on …