An atlas of power in practice
How power enters institutions, law, markets, and everyday life
Trace Party-state power through decision makers, implementing bodies, operating mechanisms, and documented consequences.
System map
How a political demand enters everyday reality
This is a reading map, not a closed model. A specific event may skip a stage or involve several systems at once.
Political centerParty centerSets political direction, priorities, and security boundaries
Organizational and implementation interfaces
Recurring operating methods
Where to observe and verify
Institutional Domains
11 domains cover Party organization, state institutions, political economy, society, ideology, military affairs, propaganda, digital governance, rights, foreign policy, and overseas influence.
Operating Mechanisms
15 reusable mechanisms connect institutions to cases and consequences.
Institutional Domains
Choose an institutional entrance.
53 articles · 16 cases
Party Organization and Elite Politics
Central power, Party organization, cadre appointment, discipline, leadership authority, and succession.
61 articles · 28 cases
State Institutions, Law, and Policy Execution
How Party authority enters government, legislatures, supervision, courts, and local policy chains.
49 articles · 15 cases
Political Economy and Resource Allocation
How finance, land, state firms, private firms, regulation, and distribution serve political objectives.
67 articles · 19 cases
Social Governance, Demography, and Welfare
Grassroots governance, household registration, education, health, employment, aging, and social organization.
43 articles · 12 cases
Ideology, Education, and Historical Memory
Ideological production, politicized education, historical narratives, cultural control, and collective memory.
20 articles · 6 cases
Military, National Security, and War Mobilization
Party control of the military, the CMC system, national security, civil-military fusion, and mobilization.
63 articles · 15 cases
Propaganda, Culture, and Public Opinion
Framing, media coordination, cultural production, emotional mobilization, rhetoric, and opinion management.
96 articles · 23 cases
Digital Governance, Censorship, and Surveillance
Platforms, search, recommendation, identity data, artificial intelligence, firewalls, and digital control.
101 articles · 34 cases
Human Rights, Ethnicity, Religion, and Repression
Institutional repression of rights claims, ethnic and religious life, labor, feminism, legal defense, and reporting.
25 articles · 6 cases
Foreign Policy, Taiwan, and Global Strategy
Foreign-policy decision making, Taiwan, regional security, the Belt and Road, international organizations, and global strategy.
39 articles · 7 cases
Overseas United Front, Influence, and Transnational Repression
United-front work, external propaganda, diaspora organizations, campuses, business ties, narrative backflow, and coercion.
Operating Mechanisms
Follow recurring processes across domains.
Organizational embedding127Cadre control93Centralized leadership84Campaign-style governance77Securitization134Legal instrumentalization77Economic incentives and punishment71Propaganda framing116Visibility control103Data surveillance89Exemplary punishment99Relational pressure108United-front absorption59Responsibility shifting124Memory management130