• DOI:10.1080/10758216.2018.1535274
Corpus ID: 158657283

Xi Jinping and the End of Chinese Exceptionalism

@article{Dben2020XiJA,
  title={Xi Jinping and the End of Chinese Exceptionalism},
  author={B. D{\"u}ben},
  journal={Problems of Post-Communism},
  year={2020},
  volume={67},
  pages={111 - 128}
}

B. Düben

Published 2020

Political Science

Problems of Post-Communism

China watchers have long speculated whether Beijing is developing a genuinely new, exceptionally dynamic form of authoritarian governance. Recent developments suggest, however, that the Communist leadership under Xi Jinping is reverting to an orthodox form of personalist authoritarianism. This process accelerated in the run-up to the Nineteenth Communist Party Congress in 2017 and in its aftermath. The article investigates the extent to which Xi has eliminated key political norms and quasi… CONTINUE READING

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