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Record Nr.

UNINA9910418353803321

Autore

Lieberthal Kenneth

Titolo

Central documents and Politburo politics in China / / by Kenneth Lieberthal, with the assistance of James Tong and Sai-cheung Yeung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2020

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1978

ISBN

9780472127542

0472127543

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ; ; no. 33

Classificazione

POL000000SOC000000SOC008000

Disciplina

354/.51

Soggetti

Government publications - China

China Politics and government 1949-1976

Quzhou Xian (Hebei Sheng, China) Politics and government 1976-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Virtually every analysis of Chinese politics views the Politburo as the nerve center of the system, but questions abound as to how this center governs itself and how it interacts with the system around it. Specifically, how much consultation occurs during the drafting of major Politburo documents, and who is brought into this process? How is information channeled up to this body, and what are the rules that govern the access of the Politburo members themselves to data generated by the bureaucracies? How are the political strategies of individual leaders and political factions attuned to this system of information channeling? What types of decisions are reached by the Politburo? To whom are they communicated? How rigidly must they be followed? How institutionalized is this entire decision making system, and has it become more—or less—institutionalized over the years? How has the factional legacy of the Cultural Revolution affected its mode of operations? Indeed, in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, how much in control of the system has the Politburo itself been? Central Documents in Politburo Politics in China seeks to better understand these questions by analyzing a particular stream of largely bureaucratic



communications in the Chinese system: the so-called "Central Documents" (CDs). This is a series of documents through which the top Party leadership directly communicates with the rest of the political system. [1]