The author focuses on Communist Party-management relations in large and medium-scale Chinese industries since the early 1980s. Analysing these relations in the context of current economic and political reforms, he explores the major problems, the policies that have been pursued to resolve them,...

This article tests multi-factor explanations for variance among Chinese citizens’ attitudes toward two related but separable party system concepts: the appropriateness of the current one-party system for China today, and the more abstract notion that multiple parties lead to chaos. Using data...