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2.1 The concept of legitimacy: three levels of analysis and different lines of reasoning
2.2 Correlations between three levels of legitimacy and regime types
3.6 The percentage of leading cadres among delegates to post-Mao Party Congresses
3.7 Sizes of delegations to the 17th and 18th Party Congresses
4.4 Liu Shaoqi's investigations in preparation for the 8th Party Congress
4.5 Mao Zedong's investigations in preparation for the 8th Party Congress
4.6 Symposia on political reform prior to the 13th Party Congress
5.1 Party Charter on the agenda of early Party Congresses, 1921–8
5.3 Party Congress agenda about the Party Charter in the post-Mao era, 1982–2012
6.1 Membership numbers of major CCP leadership bodies since 1945
6.2 Differences between candidates and seats of the CC and CDIC in preview elections from the 13th to 18th Party Congresses
6.3 Changes and continuities in the Party Congress electoral system: from Maoist institutions to the post-Mao eras
