The Chinese Communist Party in Action: Consolidating Party Rule

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	The state of the field of CCP studies
	How the CCP has been perceived
	The organization of the book
	Notes
Part I: Overview
	Chapter 1: The Chinese Communist Party: An interpretation
		The CCP as an open political process
		CCP as an open process: its institutions and means
		A cultural-institutional interpretation
		Openness in Chinese traditional emperorship
		Modern transformation
		The CCP and internal pluralism
		Party meritocracy and its inclusiveness
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Turning the CCP into an Elite Party
		Survey of the field
		The evolving elite party
		The Chinese political elite
		Wages and benefits
		Elite access
		New regulations
		What is the future of the CCP?
		Ranking-stratified system
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part II: Organizational and ideological integration
	Chapter 3: Managing human resources to sustain the one-party rule
		The anatomy of a mysterious organ
		Controlling the nation’s human resources: the COD in action
			Nomenklatura
			Cadre grooming and training
			Human resources development and management
			Policy tool and behavioural regulator
		Structural weaknesses
			Autonomy
			Accountability
		Conclusion
		Appendices
			Appendix I
			Appendix II
			Appendix III
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Party chiefs, formal and informal rules and institutions
		Setting the context: the party-state in reform and party chiefs
		Local party chiefs: political and managerial roles
		The institutional structure
			The party committee-centered local governance structure
			The party group structure in the local state
			Formal and informal rules
		Navigating the institutional structure in governance
			Filling the gaps: supplementing the formal rules
			Adopting a formalist approach: same rules, different games
			Playing conflicting rules against each other
			Establishing informal mechanisms to overcome the formal rules
			Prevalence of informal rules
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Party spirit: Producing communist belief in contemporary China
		Party spirit and red tourism
		Party spirit and cadre education
		Hongyan and the commodification of party spirit (nature?) (essence?)
		The politics of party spirit
		The magic of instilling Communist belief
		Conclusion: the emerging religious basis of Communist rule
		Notes
Part III: Elite politics in the reform era
	Chapter 6: What is a faction?
		Recent developments
		Institutionalization and factions
		What do factions do?
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 7: Politics of anti-corruption campaign
		Socioeconomic causes of corruption
		Xi’s anti-corruption campaign: a game changer
		Differences between Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao
		Reforming anti-corruption institutions
		Xi’s anti-corruption crusade: more evidence of CCP’s “authoritarian resilience”?
		Notes
Part IV: The party in the state, society and economy
	Chapter 8: The party/army state in great transformation
		In search of a new analytical model of CCP–PLA relations
		Challenges in conceptualizing CCP–PLA relations
		Conditional subjective control
		Politburo–CMC divide: the cause of weakened party oversight
		Institutional hollowing out of commissar control
		Xi Jinping and the changing CCP–PLA relations
		The game changer in CCP/PLA interaction
		Xi–PLA alliance
		Inclination to solicit PLA support
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 9: The party in the legislature and the judiciary
		The rule of law under the party-state in China
		Legislature, lawmaking and the party
			Legislature and lawmaking process in China
			Party control of the legislature’s personnel and decision-making
			CCP’s procedural and substantive control in the legislative process
		The structure of the court system
		Party control of judiciary through the party political-legal committees
		Party control and judicial independence
		The raison d’être of the party’s control of the legislature and judiciary
		Concluding remarks: legal reform and the future of China’s legislature and judiciary
		Notes
	Chapter 10: The party in grassroots governance
		Challenges for grassroots governance
		The role of party in grassroots governance
		Shanghai as a case study
			Party building
			Community building
			Grid management and “grand coordination”
		Shanghai’s new initiatives
		Discussion and conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 11: China’s central state corporatism: The party and the governance of centrally controlled businesses
		State and big business: the perspective of “late development”
		The party and large state enterprise reform
		The party and China’s central state corporatism
			The party as organizational entrepreneur
			The party as leadership talent manager
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part V The party and foreign policy
	Chapter 12: International Department and China’s foreign policy
		Foreign policymaking structure
		Key players in China’s foreign policy decision-making structure
		Evolution of the ID
			Expanding orientation and improving public engagement
			Sharing and adapting experiences, and promoting practical cooperation
			Retaining a strong role in relations with traditional “allies”
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 13: The Chinese Communist Party and restructuring national security policymaking
		Changing challenges and China’s new national security strategy
		Reconstructing China’s national security policymaking
		What role will the CNSC play in China’s national security policymaking?
		Conclusions
		Notes
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