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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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Decoding the Chinese puzzle: Rapid economic growth and social development despite a high level of corruption
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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.