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7 - The ‘Organisational Weapon’ of the Chinese Communist Party

China’s Disciplinary Regime from Mao to Xi Jinping

from Part II - Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

By
Ling Li
Edited by
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers  and
Susan Trevaskes
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Susan Trevaskes
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Summary

Ling Li’s chapter focuses on how the Party operates in the governance space in China, using the evolution of the disciplinary regime of the Chinese Communist Party to demonstrate what she sees as the defining feature of China’s single-party state: two separate seats of power and sources of legitimation which enable the Party to use a variety of ways to impose authoritarian control over state affairs. Her analysis of the particular organisational features of China’s Party-state draws on a description of the evolution of this dualism and on the historical development of anti-corruption institutions as an exemplar of how the Party governs through supervision and discipline in China. She connects this discussion with the contemporary development of the National Supervision Commission. In this way, the chapter presents an historical evolution that can explain the establishment of the Commission, which represents the apex of Party-state disciplinary and supervisory ambitions in China today.

Keywords

Chinese Communist Party (CCP or Party)disciplinesupervisionNational Supervision Commission (NSC)anti-corruption
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Law and the Party in China
Ideology and Organisation
 , pp. 187 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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