Toward a “Structure-Agency” Framework for Analyzing Elite Conflict: Structural Origins, Social Conjuncture and the Outbreak of the Great Leap Forward

• In Event: State Building and State Capacity in China

Brief Overview

Using the Great Leap Forward as a historical case,I propose a "Structure-Agency" framework for analyzing elite conflict.This makes a contribution to the fields of elite conflict theory,Comparative Historical Sociology,and 20th-century Chinese studies

Author

• Ruizhe Zhang, School of Government, Peking University