Mass Political Organizations in Communist China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9764292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Doak Barnett (United States Information Service in Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 277 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-88 |
| Publication date | 1951-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271625127700109 |
| OpenAlex | W2054703036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
T HE Chinese Communists have developed a pattern of political organization, modeled on that in the Soviet Union, which has been a major factor in their successful achievement of power. This pattern, which they are now attempting to establish as the institutional foundation of their regime, has been exceptionally effective in arousing, activating, and mobilizing, as well as in controlling, coercing, and intimidating, large numbers of the Chinese people. One of the top priority aims of the present Chinese Communist regime is complete reorganization of the Chinese body politic according to the Communist pattern, and this aim remains constant despite periodic redefinition of the party's other policies and programs and occasional reorientation of other elements in the party's ideological line. In short, political organization per se is both a basic instrument of Chinese Communist power and a primary objective of Chinese Communist policy. The central pillar in the structure of political organization under the Chinese Communist regime is the Communist Party itself, a fairly large but welldisciplined hard core of professional revolutionaries, and the direct rule of the party is exercised through two principal chains of command: the army and the government. Chinese Communist Party members comprise a numerical minority of both the Liberation Army and the Government, but these two bureaucracies function effectively under Communist direction as the military and civil props of party rule. In addition to these three pillars of political power, however, the Chinese Communists are energetically constructing a fourth: Mass People's Organizations
Bureaucracy · China · Communism · Communist state · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2023 (70) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |