Abstract
In my contribution to this journal's previous symposium on elite politics more than five years ago, I argued that the post-Mao period had seen an evolution toward normal politics.3 This transition has gathered apace in the intervening period, in no small measure due to the passing of Deng Xiaoping, but more fundamentally to the quickening of the enormous changes in the polity and society that his policies have produced. Yet distinctive, and disconcerting, Chinese characteristics remain. What is the essence of normal politics? Most fundamentally, it means that political leaders at the apex of an at least partially institutionalized system are beset with an enormous range of issues and pressures, without any dogmatic
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