Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81134 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
GIGA Working Papers No. 232
Publisher: 
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Abstract: 
Analyses of the shape and functioning of systems of political rule need to address informal institutions, which exist alongside and can relate to formal institutions in various ways. In this paper, I first discuss some analytical foundations of the study of such institutions. I then suggest that a focus on political regimes - understood as the configuration of formal and informal institutions shaping and reflecting the access to and the exercise of political power - can be particularly useful for analysing the shape and functioning of autocracies. Finally, I use such a regime focus to study the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership succession process, which is characterised by increasing institutionalisation and complementary as well as substitutive relations between formal and informal institutions.
Subjects: 
informal institutions
political regimes
autocracies
Chinese Communist Party
political succession
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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