Go East, Young Cadre
Experiments in Inter-Provincial Training of Party and State Managers in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4886844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Lee (0000-0001-8252-9538), Xiaobin He (0000-0002-5600-3513) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329-352 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12085 |
| OpenAlex | W1859006973 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
This article situates China's local policy experimentation in the broader context of policy experiments in decentralized political systems, through a case study which represents a local state response to China's transition to a market economy. With growing regional and urban-rural inequalities evident after the initial reform period (1978-1994), local party leaders of inland provinces devised strategies for addressing these inequalities and encouraging public-private sector mobility among party officials. County and township-level leaders pursued local policy experiments in which they selected and sent officials to find private-sector work in China's booming coastal cities. Initiated in the 1990s and peaking in the 2000s, these policy experiments and inter-provincial transfers demonstrate the discretion that local officials possess to conduct programmatic/policy experiments in a unitary political system and show how officials resort to extra-institutional strategies in order to bridge perceived knowledge gaps. The ultimate demise of these programmes illuminates the challenges to extra-institutional policy innovations in transitioning states
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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China
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Decentralization and Veiled Corruption under China’s “Rule of Mandates”
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State and Society in China
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |