Despite China's stellar record of economic growth since the late 1970s, skepticism about the
country's future abounds. Serious questions have been raised about the picture created by …

The ease with which the recent turnover of power was handled bespeaks an unprecedented
degree of institutional stability within China's political elite. And yet the CCP has for some …

Small wonder then that more scholars are coming to see the viability and effectiveness of
state institutions as essential to prospects for democracy. As Samuel P. Huntington …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) under President Xi Jinping has begun to flex its
muscles as a major power. Setting aside Deng Xiaoping's mantra of “hide our light and …

The success of the recent leadership transition in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might
be interpreted as evidence that China's authoritarian regime is historically unique. More than …

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it—political stability, ideological
openness, and rapid economic growth—are unraveling. In part, this is the result of Beijing's …

This essay examines the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s strategies for maintaining social
stability. Although the CCP has tried to institutionalize the political system in the reform era …

China today is in a process of economic, intellectual, and political transformation, 1 which
includes what Alex Inkeles has called a tendency toward “convergence” between societies …

After the Tiananmen crisis in June, 1989, many observers thought that the rule of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would collapse. Instead, the regime brought inflation under …

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 …