The strength of a weak organization: the Communist Youth League as a path to power in post-Mao China
<jats:p>How can a weak organization be a path to power? The Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) lacks autonomy and coherence yet it is seen as the cradle for one of the main factions within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). To understand this tension, I provide a novel account of the role pl...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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