Abstract

This review essay analyzes the literature dealing with Xi Jinping’s anticorruption campaign. It identifies two major debates in the literature that see the campaign either as an inner-Party power struggle or as a genuine attempt to deal with the problem of corruption and organizational issues the Party is facing. In a second step, the review essay links these two understandings to larger trends in the understanding of the Chinese Communist Party in the literature. These understandings focus either on elite politics and theories of factionalism or connect to the larger debate on the decline versus resilience of the Party. It concludes that different understandings of Xi’s campaign are not mutually exclusive but adopt different points of focus and are rooted in different debates on the Chinese Communist Party.

Details

Title
Power Struggle or Strengthening the Party: Perspectives on Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign
Author
Kautz Carolin 1 

 Georg-August-University Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen, Germany (GRID:grid.7450.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 2364 4210); China Studies Centre/ University of Sydney, Darlington, Australia (GRID:grid.1013.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 834X) 
Pages
501-511
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Sep 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
10806954
e-ISSN
18746357
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2432684302
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.