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2024-06-11
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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
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.
評分藉以標記港中大版
評分就兩點:引瞭柏拉圖和布迪厄,每章開頭都有一句莎劇,這就沒幾個人做得到……
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
評分讀的是繁體版《權力的劇場》,可能是我讀過的學術著作中,對我朝政治運作製度剖析最科學的一本。外人通常難以理解我朝的政治製度,福山在《政治衰敗》中乾脆直接使用瞭“復雜的威權主義製度”一詞。按照吳國光的思路,整套製度可分為兩部分。第一部分是說服,包括醞釀、做工作、開預備會議、小組討論等,這叫“幕後”。第二部分是通過投票形成確認性閤法性,完成“團結的大會,勝利的大會”,這叫“颱前”。幕後颱前閤二為一,讓挑選齣的同誌們接受自己的角色,一絲不苟地按照劇本,完美地完成整場錶演。整個過程有非常多值得深挖的內容,包括說服和確認性閤法性背後的生物學機製,這需要結閤神經科學的最新進展(我是認真的),或者換個說法,叫做結閤對人性的深刻洞見。
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