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‘Carrying Forward the Great Founding Spirit’: Governance in the Communist Party of China Today
, B.B. Subba
Published in Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
2022
Volume: 58
   
Issue: 3
Pages: 263 - 282
Abstract
The Communist Party of China’s transition from a revolutionary party to a ruling party has been accompanied by challenges to its legitimacy owing to issues of corruption and poor governance. As a result, the Party’s leadership has time and again laid stress on discipline and unity on internal governance, in other words, as a way of overcoming its shortcomings. This article looks at two approaches towards internal governance under current General Secretary Xi Jinping. The first, it argues, is a stress on the fervour and ideals of a past revolutionary era as the Party tries to reinforce its legitimacy to rule. The second is a strategy of greater control over the work of the state. Essentially, the Party is integrating the state ever closely with itself as a way of validating the effectiveness of its internal governance. © 2022 SAGE Publications.
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