China’s Elite Politics in the post-Deng Xiaoping Era: Emergence and Evolution of the Institutionalization of Oligarchy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to explore the framework for explaining and analyzing Chinese elite politics in the post-Deng Xiaoping era. To this end, we have critically examined the main models that have explored the existing Chinese elite politics. These are “winner-takes-all,” “bandwagon,” “balance-of-power,” “power balancing,” and “organizational emperorship” models. After a critical review of these models, this paper presents a model called "institutionalization of the oligarchy.“ According to this model, China's elite politics was basically run by an oligarchy, which means a reign by a small group of non-individuals, after the Deng Xiaoping era.In addition, institutionalization related to “competitive coexistence” has progressed in order to maintain and develop the oligarchy stably.

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