Xi’s Leninist Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship
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General Secretary Xi Jinping’s reforms to the nomenklatura system has built a selectocracy that is best understood as a realignment with Leninist party-building norms after experiments with more democratic bottom-up mechanisms under Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao. Such changes are intended to strengthen the Party as a whole, not just Xi’s own power.
Notable Xi-era reforms, such as eliminating the use of straw polls for cadre selection, simply reverted changed made
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s reforms to the nomenklatura system has built a selectocracy that is best understood as a realignment with Leninist party-building norms after experiments with more democratic bottom-up mechanisms under Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao. Such changes are intended to strengthen the Party as a whole, not just Xi’s own power.
Notable Xi-era reforms, such as eliminating the use of straw polls for cadre selection, simply reverted changed made
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