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.
發表於2024-10-31
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圖書標籤: 政治學 中國政治 海外中國研究 中國研究 吳國光 黨代會 比較政治 政治
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評分以黨代會為軸心,對我朝政治運作鞭闢入裏的分析,簡直是本神作。中譯本叫《權力的劇場》,我更喜歡這個標題。代錶大會是領導層自上而下預先編排的劇目,投票前“醞釀”,投票中“做工作”,在會場中一係列精心安排的儀式中,被層層硬點的代錶們“齣席、發言、投票、擁護”,從而為上層政治權力的鬥爭與分配結果賦予一種“confirmative legitimacy“。收益與作者本人的體製內經曆,全書的論述穿插瞭大量生動例子,十分有趣。我完全同意簡介中的這句話:This ambitious book is essential reading for all those interested in understanding contemporary China
評分。
評分【港中大中文繁體版】對新製度主義的相關理論有過瞭解的話本書不難理解。打破“正式”與“非正式”界限、擴大“製度”涵蓋麵的倡議很閤理,對符號資源與文化傳統的論述對頭但似乎做得有點淺。總的來說本書的理論框架仍有潛力可挖。對部分人士心態中的矛盾一針見血的分析可能是全書比較精彩的部分。
評分【港中大中文繁體版】對新製度主義的相關理論有過瞭解的話本書不難理解。打破“正式”與“非正式”界限、擴大“製度”涵蓋麵的倡議很閤理,對符號資源與文化傳統的論述對頭但似乎做得有點淺。總的來說本書的理論框架仍有潛力可挖。對部分人士心態中的矛盾一針見血的分析可能是全書比較精彩的部分。
China's Party Congress 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載