China and East Asia: September 2007

The Future of China’s Party-State

By: Bruce J. Dickson, Bruce Gilley, Merle Goldman and Dali L. Yang

Description: Does the Chinese Communist Party derive enough legitimacy from economic growth? Can a party-state survive by co-opting some potential challengers while repressing others? So far, the CCP has answered these questions in the affirmative. Yet the debate goes on. This year, as the party's Seventeenth Congress prepares to unveil a new Politburo (same as the old Politburo?), we asked four scholars to offer their latest thinking on the subject.

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