Coalitions of the Weak

For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao''s successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or resista...