Virtually every analysis of Chinese politics views the Politburo as
the nerve center of the system, but questions abound as to how this
center governs itself and how it interacts with the system around
it. Specifically, how much consultation occurs during the drafting
of major Politburo documents, and who is brought into this process?
How is information channeled up to this body, and what are the
rules that govern the access of the Politburo members themselves to
data generated by the bureaucracies? How are the political
strategies of individual leaders and political factions attuned to
this system of information channeling? What types of decisions are
reached by the Politburo? To whom are they communicated? How
rigidly must they be followed? How institutionalized is this entire
decision making system, and has it become more-or
less-institutionalized over the years? How has the factional legacy
of the Cultural Revolution affected its mode of operations? Indeed,
in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, how much in control of the
system has the Politburo itself been?Central Documents in Politburo
Politics in China seeks to better understand these questions by
analyzing a particular stream of largely bureaucratic
communications in the Chinese system: the so-called "Central
Documents" (CDs). This is a series of documents through which the
top Party leadership directly communicates with the rest of the
political system. [1]
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