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Indeed, case studies from the Soviet Union (Svolik 2012) and China (Gehlbach and Keefer 2012), as well as research on Vietnam (Malesky, Abrami, and Zheng 2011), focus on party institutions such as the central committees and politburos as venues for power sharing and negotiation rather than on the Supreme Soviet, National People’s Con- gress, or VNA.