Within this overall framework, scholars have focused on the CCP's capability to adapt to new socioeconomic environments. Early on, Bruce Dickson argued that the CCP was in a phase that Samuel Huntington called "adaption." But Dickson also believed that unlike the Kuomintang in Taiwan, the CCP would not follow the path to democratization. In his more recent work, however, Dickson(20os) contends that the initiative of the CCP to recruit private sector entrepreneurs is consistent with the evolution of other East Asian ruling parties. This initiative is an effort to adapt in order to save itself. Dickson believes that this initiative is a pragmatic, adaptive measure. The CCP's strategy of co-optation is working