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Evaluation Processes, Local Cadres' Behaviour and Local Development Processes
Thomas Heberer,René Trappel +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of political evaluations on the behavior of leading county and township cadres in rural China and found that the performance evaluation system and its targets have become an important point of orientation for local cadres, although there are important variations among different groups of officials.Abstract:
This study investigates the impact of political evaluations on the behaviour of leading county and township cadres in rural China. The article is structured in two parts. In the first section the institutional foundations of the evaluation system for local administrations in rural China will be introduced. The section will conclude with a brief overview of policy reforms initiated by the centre to tackle some of the perceived shortcomings of the present system. The second part of this article will feature the behavioural responses of local cadres to evaluations as identified in our field research interviews and secondary literature. It becomes obvious that the performance evaluation system and its targets have become an important point of orientation for local cadres—although there are important variations among different groups of officials. Finally, in the conclusion the argument for an alternative perspective on performance evaluations in the context of rural China will be developed: on the one side a ...read more
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Policy entrepreneurship under hierarchy: how state actors change policies in China
Chunyu Shi,Émilie Frenkiel +1 more
TL;DR: The authors studied how actors develop entrepreneurial activities to bring about policy change, and to what extent do the contexts in which they are embedded shape their behaviors, using three comparative case studies of actors' entrepreneurial activities.
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Familiarity breeds growth: The impact of factional ties on local cadres’ economic performance in China
Stan Hok-Wui Wong,Yu Zeng +1 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined whether local cadres' economic performance would change as a result of losing vertical ties to a higher authority and found an immediate increase in the growth rates of local GDP and government revenue.
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The Elusive Pursuit of Incentive Systems: Research on the Cadre Management Regime in Post-Mao China
TL;DR: The authors reviewed recent scholarship on four key components of the post-Mao party state's cadre management regime, including the nomenklatura system, cadre performance evaluation system, bianzhi, and the Party school system, and found that findings of each group of studies are clouded by a great deal of uncertainty due to the complexity and secrecy of the Chinese bureaucratic structure and politics.
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The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Chinese Dual-Pension Regimes in the Era of Labor Migration and Labor Informalization:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that local officials attempt to balance multiple, conflicting, conflicting welfare systems in Chinese local government by including informal workers in their welfare systems while others exclude them.
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TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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State Capacity and Local Agent Control in China: CCP Cadre Management from a Township Perspective
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Coercive accountability: the rise of audit culture in higher education
Cris Shore,Susan Wright +1 more
TL;DR: One of the questions raised in the introduction to this volume is how one recognizes epochal change, particularly when one is in the midst of it as mentioned in this paper, and the rapid and relentless spread of coercive technologies of accountability into higher education is a case in point.