Authoritarian Resilience and the Decay of Party Institutions in One-Party Regimes: Evidence from the Soviet Union and China

• In Event: Authoritarian Resilience and Ruling Elites

Brief Overview

Using party congress votes to measure the vibrancy of party institutions in the Soviet Union and China, we find that party institutions were initially vibrant but later collapsed in both regimes, with the process being more prolonged in China.

Authors

• Wenqing Huangfu, University of Macau

• Tao Li, University of Macau

• Nikolai Mukhin, The University of Hong Kong