TY - BOOK ID - 85469343 TI - China's Party Congress : power, legitimacy, and institutional manipulation PY - 2015 SN - 1316397068 1316399265 1316400883 131639980X 1316398684 113997680X 1107082021 1107442206 1316393828 9781139976800 9781316398685 9781107082021 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political leadership KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang. KW - Zhongguo gong chan dang KW - Zhong guo gong chan dang KW - Chung-kuo kung chʻan tang KW - Chūgoku Kyōsantō KW - Chungguk Kongsandang KW - 中国共产党 KW - 中國共產黨 KW - КПК KW - KPK KW - Komunistická strana Číny KW - Komunistička partija Kine KW - Communist Party of China KW - Chinese Communist Party KW - Communist Party (China) KW - Gong chan dang (China) KW - 共产党 (China) KW - Коммунистическая партия Китая KW - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Kitai︠a︡ KW - Shina Kyōsantō KW - Китайска комунистическа партия KW - Kitaĭska komunisticheska partii︠a︡ KW - Partido Comunista de China KW - PCCh KW - Parti communiste chinois KW - CCP KW - Partito comunista cinese KW - KPCh KW - Kommunistische Partei Chinas KW - К.П.К. KW - K.P.K. KW - CPC KW - C.C.P. KW - Partia Komuniste të Kinës KW - Đảng cộng sản Trung quốc KW - Zhong gong KW - 中共 KW - Pcc KW - P.C. Chino KW - ХКН KW - KhKN KW - Хятадын Коммунист нам KW - Khi︠a︡tadyn Kommunist nam KW - Chung-kuo kung chʻan tang. KW - 中国共产党. KW - Party work. KW - Platforms. KW - China KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469343 AB - 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. ER -