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100 1  Wu, Guoguang. 
245 10 China's Party Congress :|bpower, legitimacy, and 
       institutional manipulation /|cGuoguang Wu, University of 
       Victoria. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bCambridge University Press,|c2015. 
300    1 online resource 
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505 0  Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents;
       List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: China's 
       Party Congress as the theater of power; 2 Institutions 
       manipulated, legitimacy ritualized: a theory of 
       authoritarian legitimization; 3 "Meeting for unity and 
       victory": the political art of running the Party Congress;
       4 Between political principle and the practice of power: 
       the making and remaking of the Party platform; 5 Norms 
       versus operations: the Party Constitution in political 
       configuration. 
505 8  6 Elections as instruments of autocracy: the essence and 
       nuisance of formalistic voting7 Conclusion; Bibliography; 
       Index. 
520    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. 
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610 20 Zhongguo gong chan dang.|bQuan guo dai biao da hui. 
610 20 Zhongguo gong chan dang|xParty work. 
610 20 Zhongguo gong chan dang|xPlatforms. 
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610 27 Zhongguo gong chan dang.|bQuan guo dai biao da hui.|2fast
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648  7 Since 1949|2fast 
650  0 Political leadership|zChina. 
651  0 China|xPolitics and government|y1949- 
655  0 Electronic books. 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 Political platforms.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423827 
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