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Market-driven socioeconomic change in the past decades has transformed the social composition and the class base of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It has also eroded the institutional foundation of the CCP’s grassroots organizations and redefined the relationship between party members and the Party. While the structure of a Leninist party remains, the nature the Party and the way it exercise power are undergoing fundamental change. The new dynamic in party-society relations and the rise of status-quo interests within the Party dictate that authoritarian accommodation is the default path of the CCP’s evolution, not imminent regime collapse or democratic transition.
Lance L P Gore (Mon,) studied this question.