Deng Equilibrium: Institutional Analysis of Xi Jinping’s rise to power

• In Event: The Chinese Communist Party in Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Brief Overview

Xi Jinping took advantage of the eroding power balance between aging and nascent elites. We suggest an analytical framework that will allow us to trace how new institutions emerge and erode in authoritarian regimes in response to critical junctures.

Author

• Nikolai Mukhin, The University of Hong Kong