Training the Party

Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-era China

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Charlotte P. Lee, California) Lee, Charlotte P. (Stanford University

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Charlotte P. Lee considers organizational changes taking place within the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP), examining the party's renewed emphasis on an understudied but core set of organizations: party-managed training academies or 'party schools'. This national network of organizations enables party authorities to exert political control over the knowledge, skills, and careers of officials. Drawing on in-depth field research and novel datasets, Lee finds that the party school system has not been immune to broader market-based reforms but instead has incorporated many of the same strategies as actors in China's hybrid, state-led private sector. In the search for revenue and status, schools have updated training content and become more entrepreneurial as they compete and collaborate with domestic and international actors. This book draws attention to surprising dynamism located within the party, in political organizations thought immune to change, and the transformative effect of the market on China's political system.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-21
Mått151 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107462793

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Charlotte P. Lee is associate director of the China Program at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Prior to joining the Stanford China Program, she taught courses in Chinese politics, comparative politics, and international relations at Hamilton College, New York and the United States Air Force Academy. Her research focuses on the institutions of authoritarian regimes, public bureaucracies, organizations, and contemporary Chinese politics and has been published in peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journals. She holds a doctorate in political science from Stanford University, California and a Bachelor of Arts in political economy and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

1. Introduction; 2. The organizational landscape; 3. Managing the managers; 4. Fusing party and market; 5. The entrepreneurial party school; 6. Adaptation measured; 7. Conclusion: risks and limits to party reforms; Appendices: A. Number of party schools, by locale and national share of leading cadres; B. Note on sources and research methods; C. Central Party School organization; D. City Z training allocations, 2008; E. Descriptive statistics and robustness tests of PSM presented in Chapter 3; F. Central Party School Mid-Career Cadre Training Classes descriptive data; G. International partnerships, central and provincial-level party schools; H. Categories for coding training syllabi.

'Charlotte P. Lee probes the core institution of China's political system - the party - through an original examination of party schools, organizations that train and socialize officials throughout the country. Marshaling extensive fieldwork and new statistical data, Lee paints an exquisitely detailed picture of the party's entrepreneurial adaptation to market reforms as well as the evolution of bureaucratic training. Importantly, this book reveals there can be avenues of political change without formal democratization in authoritarian regimes.' Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan