Who Serves the Party on the Ground? Grassroots Party Workers for China’s Non-Public Sector of the Economy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12422189
AutoresHan Zhang (0000-0002-5265-7659, The University of International Business and Economics, China, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume27
Fascículo110
Páginas244-260
Data de publicação2017-10-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2018.1389022
OpenAlexW2767129091
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) needs to recruit and incentivize two categories of grassroots party workers, namely, grassroots party secretaries and full-time party workers, to take on party work for the non-public sector of the economy. Three general strategies of recruitment have been developed: adaptation, reactivation and cooptation. Using these strategies, the CCP sets in motion the flow of human resources between the public and the non-public sectors. The CCP provides three general incentives to its grassroots party workers: material incentives, status incentives and the incentives of identity. Full-time party workers are careerists who ‘live off’ the Party and expect material incentives, while part-time grassroots party secretaries are believers who ‘live for’ the Party and expect status incentives and the incentives of identity

Business · China · Communism · Economics · Grassroots · Incentive · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sector · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Public Administration