Nominally 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.

China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation

Politics & Social Sciences

Wu, Guoguang

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph

Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-state democracy. Guoguang Wu provides a theoretical framework of global capitalism for specialists in political economy, political science, economics and international relations, for graduate and undergraduate courses on globalization, capitalism, development and democracy, as well as for the public who are interested in globalization. Wu examines the new institutional features of global capitalism and how they reframe movements of capital, labor and consumption. He explores how globalization has created a chain of connection in which capital depends on effective authoritarianism, while democracy depends on capital. Ultimately, he argues that the emerging state-market nexus has fundamentally shaken the existing institutional systems, harming democracy in the process.

Business & Money

Economics

Nominally 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.

Xin san guo yan yi: Zhong Gang Tai zheng ju ("Zhongguo ju shi" xi lie) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Ming jing chu ban she

Focusing on domestic exercise and the foreign conduct of Chinese political power, this collection provides unique insights on the Chinese Communist regime that has been in transition, combining the perspectives an insider's experience and a scholar's investigation. It examines how Beijing politics were conducted by the Fifteenth and Sixteenth National Party Congresses, and proceeds to outline the processes of bureaucratic and mass communications from Beijing to the Chinese nation. the book concludes by looking at China's foreign relations, focusing on the management of recent tension in the Sino-US relationship.

Anatomy of Political Power in China

Legal Theory & Systems

Marshall Cavendish Intl

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