"I am saying that the time has now arrived for both factions to sit down and seriously discuss the issue of leadership succession," he said.

Such tensions are compounded by the fact that China has yet to institutionalize a system for leadership succession.

In the 19th century flourishing of Hasidism, leadership succession usually became dynastic, rather than inherited by the greatest or most charismatic student.

Her research interests include leadership succession and development, work redesign and organizational behavior in educational organizations, and academic freedom.

The ten vassal states operated independent hereditary leadership succession within their existing ruling houses.

And the one coming up will be rougher than most because we have an unusual leadership succession this time.

Confucian family theory is still espoused in North Korea to justify their method of leadership succession.

Meeting Drags On The leadership succession today was apparently not a smooth one.

The system was governed less by statute than by informal conventions, and no settled mechanism of leadership succession existed.

It raises the possibility of increased instability on the divided Korean peninsula as the reclusive regime undergoes a leadership succession.