Disciplinary Infrastructure: How Party Discipline Makes Compliant Officials in China

The Global Law Workshop: Asia in Context is a new USALI interdisciplinary workshop series bringing together scholars working on law in Asia from comparative and global perspectives. In this inaugural session, Hauser Fellow Shuyu Chu will present research on Party discipline in China, introducing the concept of “disciplinary infrastructure” to examine how internal disciplinary mechanisms within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) function as a form of governance and accountability in the absence of democratic elections and external oversight.

The talk contributes to broader debates in public law on government accountability, anti-corruption, and the political control of public officials, and considers its implications for comparative understandings of governance and state capacity in a global context.

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