一個組織中的成文規則雖然不是歷史演變的完整紀錄，但是卻透過規定的制定、修改與廢止留下了的「痕跡」，而這些痕跡就變成了分析組織規則變化的實證數據來源。本文將研究重點放在中共黨內法規的「產生」（rule birth）上，再輔以規則的內容分析，從權力領導格局的變化切入，觀察黨內法規的演變軌跡。從政治領導的角度觀之，中共依賴個人權威的領導模式到了1994 年鄧小平退居幕後開始有所轉變，以江澤民為首的第三代領導核心之中沒有人擁有「獨霸」的力量可以左右政局，因此領導菁英之間必須仰賴相互合作、相互妥協，有時候甚至是相互牽制才能維持權力的運作。歸納所有的觀察，發現中共的規則史具有一定的發展趨勢，主要分成兩個部分：第一，規則是組織在面對問題或應付壓力時的解決之策，簡言之，規則是因應問題而生的；第二，規則是組織自我強化的展現，也就是說，組織為了克服自身的弱點，會透過規則的制定來改善。

Written rules leave historical traces when they are created, revised, and
eliminated. They shape organizational events and are shaped by them. We are
trying to uncover the historical traces in the written rules of CCP in this paper through “rule birth.” We observed that the rule traces in the Deng period were different from those during the period of Jiang or his successors. There are two trends of the dynamics of the rules in CCP: the rules adapt to history through problem-solving, and through experience-learning.