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American and Japanese Perceptions of the Re-emergence of China(Politics Panel) Understanding Xis Centralized Power Tomoki Kamo (Keio University, Japan) December 19, 2014 Since the beginning of Xis regime, there has been an obvious


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American and Japanese Perceptions of the Re-emergence of China(Politics Panel)

Understanding Xi’s Centralized Power

Tomoki Kamo (Keio University, Japan) December 19, 2014

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  • Since the beginning of Xi’s regime, there has been

an obvious change in the policy decision-making mechanism.

  • Decision-making authority is highly centralized.
  • Monopolize decision-coordination mechanisms.

Centralized decision-making mechanisms.

  • Xi has successfully consolidate his power?
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  • What has enabled and prompted the

concentration of D-M power on Xi?

  • Sharing sense of insecurity among the party

leadership.

Public discontent: degradation of the environment; political and bureaucratic corruption; ethnic conflict in Xinjiang and Tibet, economic slowdown in growth.

  • Sharing desire for a strong and decisive leader.
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  • Institutionalization

– Restrict to the exercise of power;

  • Term limit and Age limit

– Promote intra-party democracy;

  • Internal poll to select favored top leaders for the

future-> “vote”

– Activate democratic institutions:

  • PC, CPPCC
  • Building several mechanisms of dialogue with non-

Party elites

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  • Decision making mechanism
  • Collect Information mechanism
  • CCP try to activate democratic institutions.
  • CCP has made use of democratic institutions as a

means to collect the information for D-M.

– PC, CPPCC – Building several mechanisms of dialogue with non- Party elites

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  • The members of the Democratic Institutions

come from a variety of different backgrounds.

  • Democratic Institutions perform a wide variety

political functions.

– Serve as a Agents of Gov., Transmit the policy to. – Serve as a Remonstrators, Convey the Information to Gov. – Serve as a Representative, Represent to interest

  • f Constituency.
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  • Xi has successfully reinforced his power

foundation by centralizing decision-making mechanisms.

  • Promoting institutionalization of power, restrict

Xi’s power.

  • Gathering information for decision-making, Xi’

regime needs more allies, but Anti-corruption campaign has caused changes the behavior of bureaucracy and interest groups.