Patricia M Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 185185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia M Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9532-1293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Frame of Steel to Iron Cage
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its centenary, its expanding role in penetrating, regulating, and reshaping social organisations (社会组织, shehui zuzhi) seemed to signal a decisive shift in not only the arrangement, but also the balance, of power between the state, the voluntary sector, and the party in favour of the latter. Beginning with the recent reform “decoupling” professional associations and chambers of commerce (行业协会商会, hang…
Mao's Ordinary People
The latest in a string of recent books on the Cultural Revolution focuses on the experience at the grassroots, where violent upheaval unexpectedly ended in the return of capitalism
The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial
The Anthropocene is rooted in the proposition that human activity has disrupted earth systems to the extent that it has caused us to enter a new geological age. We identify three popular discourses of what the Anthropocene means for humanity's future: the Moral Jeremiad admonishes the transgression of planetary boundaries and advocates reductions to live sustainably within Earth's limits; the Technofix Earth Engineer approach depicts the Age of H…
The New Life of the Party
While the 2004 introduction of a Party-organized trade union in Wal-Mart's mainland China-based stores was widely reported, far less is known about official Party branches and committees in the non-state-owned sector. Well over 3.5 million Party members now work in “non-publicly owned enterprises”, a sector of the economy in which the Party has continued to expand. The Party is experimenting with new organizational arrangements and remaking its s…
Collective Resistance in China
From liberating production to unleashing consumption
Crisis and Governance
Political Machine
An urban political machine is a partisan organization that mobilizes its members to vote primarily through the dispersion of material incentives and other forms of preferential treatment, including favoritism based on political criteria in personnel decisions, contracting, and the administration of laws. While the degree and scope of political machines varied, both from city to city as well as over time, they were widely perceived as organization…
Corruption by Design
China's Democratic Future
Insinuation, Insult, and Invective
Decades after the Chinese Communists successfully ousted their Nationalist Party rivals and radically remolded the political economy of the countryside, an elderly resident of Guangdong's Zhongshan municipality recounted the onerous burden of taxes imposed under Nationalist rule. In addition to the twenty-six types of taxes exacted from residents by central state authorities, and the twenty excises collected by the provincial administration, he r…
Cadres and Corruption
Journal Article Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party Get access Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party by Xiaobo Lü. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2000. 368 pp. $55.00; paper, $19.95. Patricia M. Thornton Patricia M. Thornton Trinity College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
The Role of Local Groups in Trunk-Road Consultation
Crisis and Governance
The New Life of the Party
While the 2004 introduction of a Party-organized trade union in Wal-Mart's mainland China-based stores was widely reported, far less is known about official Party branches and committees in the non-state-owned sector. Well over 3.5 million Party members now work in “non-publicly owned enterprises”, a sector of the economy in which the Party has continued to expand. The Party is experimenting with new organizational arrangements and remaking its s…
The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial
The Anthropocene is rooted in the proposition that human activity has disrupted earth systems to the extent that it has caused us to enter a new geological age. We identify three popular discourses of what the Anthropocene means for humanity's future: the Moral Jeremiad admonishes the transgression of planetary boundaries and advocates reductions to live sustainably within Earth's limits; the Technofix Earth Engineer approach depicts the Age of H…
From liberating production to unleashing consumption
Insinuation, Insult, and Invective
Decades after the Chinese Communists successfully ousted their Nationalist Party rivals and radically remolded the political economy of the countryside, an elderly resident of Guangdong's Zhongshan municipality recounted the onerous burden of taxes imposed under Nationalist rule. In addition to the twenty-six types of taxes exacted from residents by central state authorities, and the twenty excises collected by the provincial administration, he r…
The Role of Local Groups in Trunk-Road Consultation
Cadres and Corruption
Journal Article Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party Get access Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party by Xiaobo Lü. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2000. 368 pp. $55.00; paper, $19.95. Patricia M. Thornton Patricia M. Thornton Trinity College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
Insinuation, Insult, and Invective
Decades after the Chinese Communists successfully ousted their Nationalist Party rivals and radically remolded the political economy of the countryside, an elderly resident of Guangdong's Zhongshan municipality recounted the onerous burden of taxes imposed under Nationalist rule. In addition to the twenty-six types of taxes exacted from residents by central state authorities, and the twenty excises collected by the provincial administration, he r…
China's Democratic Future
Corruption by Design
Political Machine
An urban political machine is a partisan organization that mobilizes its members to vote primarily through the dispersion of material incentives and other forms of preferential treatment, including favoritism based on political criteria in personnel decisions, contracting, and the administration of laws. While the degree and scope of political machines varied, both from city to city as well as over time, they were widely perceived as organization…
Crisis and Governance
From liberating production to unleashing consumption
Collective Resistance in China
The New Life of the Party
While the 2004 introduction of a Party-organized trade union in Wal-Mart's mainland China-based stores was widely reported, far less is known about official Party branches and committees in the non-state-owned sector. Well over 3.5 million Party members now work in “non-publicly owned enterprises”, a sector of the economy in which the Party has continued to expand. The Party is experimenting with new organizational arrangements and remaking its s…
The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial
The Anthropocene is rooted in the proposition that human activity has disrupted earth systems to the extent that it has caused us to enter a new geological age. We identify three popular discourses of what the Anthropocene means for humanity's future: the Moral Jeremiad admonishes the transgression of planetary boundaries and advocates reductions to live sustainably within Earth's limits; the Technofix Earth Engineer approach depicts the Age of H…
Mao's Ordinary People
The latest in a string of recent books on the Cultural Revolution focuses on the experience at the grassroots, where violent upheaval unexpectedly ended in the return of capitalism
From Frame of Steel to Iron Cage
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its centenary, its expanding role in penetrating, regulating, and reshaping social organisations (社会组织, shehui zuzhi) seemed to signal a decisive shift in not only the arrangement, but also the balance, of power between the state, the voluntary sector, and the party in favour of the latter. Beginning with the recent reform “decoupling” professional associations and chambers of commerce (行业协会商会, hang…
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