Yiou Zhang
Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Yiou Zhang is a Graduate Student at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Apr 19, 2017
Though the Chinese leadership has labored over the past three decades to instill rules and norms into its elite selection process, concerns have persisted over the effectiveness and durability of these nascent institutional mechanisms. What institutional limitations and political barriers stand in the way? The selection of ethnic minority leaders provides a good case study that sheds valuable light on these questions.