{"product_id":"chinas-party-congress-power-legitimacy-and-institutional-manipulation-hardback-9781107082021","title":"China's Party Congress; Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation (Hardback) 9781107082021","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChina's Party Congress\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePower, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first scholarly analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGuoguang Wu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107082021, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e382 pages, 24 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is insightful about the actual operations of the Congress and is filled with useful information on its evolution as an institution, especially since the seventh Party Congress in 1945. It is a good reference for students of Chinese politics.' Zhiyue Bo, The China Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNominally 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 policy, and explores why such a formal performance of congress meetings, delegate discussions, and non-democratic elections is significant for authoritarian politics more broadly. Taking institutional inconsistency as the central research question, this study presents a new theory of 'mutual contextualization' to reveal how informal politics and formal institutions interact with each other. Wu argues that despite the prevalence of informal politics behind the scenes, authoritarian politics seeks legitimization through a combination of political manipulation and the ritual mobilization of formal institutions. This ambitious book is essential reading for all those interested in understanding contemporary China, and an innovative theoretical contribution to the study of comparative politics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: China's Party Congress as the theatre of power\u003cbr\u003e 2. Institutions manipulated, legitimacy ritualized: a theory of authoritarian legitimization\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Meeting for unity and victory': the political art of running the Party Congress\u003cbr\u003e 4. Between political principle and the practice of power: the making and remaking of the Party platform\u003cbr\u003e 5. Norms versus operations: Party constitution in political configuration\u003cbr\u003e 6. Elections as instruments of autocracy: the essence and nuisance of formalistic voting\u003cbr\u003e 7. 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