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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/constructing-united-front-loca
 l-peoples-political-consultative-conference-post-mao-chinese/
SUMMARY:Constructing a United Front: The Local People's Political Consultat
 ive Conference in Post-Mao Chinese Politics
DESCRIPTION:\n	Yan Xiaojun (Associate Professor of Politics and Public Admi
 nistration\, The University of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/D
 iscussant: Grzegorz Ekiert (Professor of Government\, Harvard University)
 \n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	How d
 o we explain regime stability in a rapidly rising China?  While scholars 
 today deem political institutions essential for answering this question\, 
 our understanding of an important yet unique Chinese political institution
 —the People's Political Consultative Conference (PPCC)—has remained si
 gnificantly inadequate. In this talk\, Yan Xiaojun attempts to fill in thi
 s gap\, surveying the functional and political role of the PPCC in Chinese
  politics. Exploring original texts recording the daily operations of a co
 unty-level PPCC over two decades\, Yan Xiaojun demonstrates that the PPCC
 —a pivotal inclusive regime institution—plays a far more important rol
 e in upholding the political regime than previously thought. Through condu
 cting ideological indoctrination\, dispensing preferential treatment\, fac
 ilitating controlled political participation and maintaining constant cont
 act with non-Communist elites and other societal leaders\, the PPCC provid
 es the state with an important platform for co-opting potentially threaten
 ing social forces\, a forum for policy bargaining\, a channel for monitori
 ng various social sectors and a mechanism for offering material benefits t
 o the regime's most loyal and trustworthy collaborators. The state also us
 es this consultative body as an instrument to garner feedback from society
  and build good governance.
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