Power Centralization and Intra-Elite Conflict: Micro-Evidence from China's Closed-Door Elections*

• In Event: The Politics of Legislatures and Party Congresses in China

Brief Overview

We provide micro-evidence for the link between authoritarian power sharing and elite cohesion by showing that Chinese provincial elites cast more Nays in closed-door elections when central leaders appoint outsiders to dilute their power.

Author

• Tao Li, University of Macau