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The constitution and institutions under Xi Jinping

Crawford School of Public Policy | East Asian Bureau of Economic Research | South Asian Bureau of Economic Research
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Event details

Seminar

Date & time

Thursday 07 February 2019
11.00am–12.30pm

Venue

Seminar Room 10, Level 3, Crawford School of Public Policy, #132 Lennox Crossing, ANU

Speaker

Dr Ryan Manuel

Contacts

Will Zou
+61 2 6125 8247

This seminar will provide insights into Xi Jinping’s apparent new institutional turn. With all the focus on Xi’s removal of term limits in his constitutional change, the other forty-odd constitutional changes were ignored. These changes institutionalised Xi’s anti-corruption activity. But in doing so, Xi has removed powers from the Party and placed them in the local legislature, with significant consequences for the development of the rule of law, and Chinese governance more broadly.

Dr Ryan Manuel is an Associate Professor of Practice at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. His most recent work, How to Rule in China, analysed how rules are made and followed the Chinese political system based on large databases of the Chinese government and Party documentation. He was previously an academic at Oxford University and The Australian National University, a Senior China Analyst with the Australian government and a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

This seminar is part of a seminar series by The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER). EABER is a forum for high-quality economic research focussing on issues facing the economies of East Asia based out of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

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