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This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author suggests that the Communist Party in post-1949 China faces an institutional dilemma: the Party cannot live with the state, and it cannot live without the state. Zheng demonstrates that it is not only conceptually constructive, but analytically imperative to distinguish the state from the Communist Party. Secondly, he integrates detailed study with broader generalizations about Chinese politics, thus making efforts to overcome the tendency toward specialized scholarship at the expense of comparative and systemic understanding of China. He also opens a new dimension of Chinese politics - the uncertain and conflictual relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese state

Examines some personal characteristics of the new ruling elite who came to power in China at the Sixteenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2002. It is shown that these top leaders are, for the most part, motivated by rational self-interest & have achieved their success largely through patronage. The political & organizational environment in which they operate today is free of the "strongmen" & intense ideological struggle of the past. Retirement is considered an acceptable method of political exit (in contrast to the purges of the Mao years), & age limits have become more important in shaping elite behavior; the political power of the military, on the other hand, has waned. It is suggested that Chinese elite politics can best be explained as a function of shifts in power among uni-, bi-, & multipolarity. 10 References. K. Hyatt Stewart