Coalitions of the Weak
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Coalitions of the Weak

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Coalitions of the Weak

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For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or resistance to major policy changes. Through an in-depth look of late-Mao politics informed by thousands of historical documents and data analysis, Coalitions of the Weak uncovers Mao's strategy of replacing seasoned, densely networked senior officials with either politically tainted or inexperienced officials. The book further documents how a decentralized version of this strategy led to two generations of weak leadership in the Chinese Communist Party, creating the conditions for Xi's rapid consolidation of power after 2012.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781009036177
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Coalition of the Strong: Mao's Predicament after the Great Leap Forward
  13. 3 ''Counterrevolutionary Splittists'' in Mao's Ruling Coalition
  14. 4 The Scribblers Mafia: Radical Ideologues in Mao's Coalition
  15. 5 Realizing the Coalition of the Weak: Politics in the Late-Mao Period
  16. 6 The Collapse of the Coalition of the Weak and Power Sharing in the 1980s
  17. 7 Weak Successors: The Final Calculus of the Founding Generation and the Rise of Xi Jinping
  18. 8 Conclusion and the Future of the Chinese Communist Party
  19. References
  20. Index