The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China
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Resumo: | The transformation of China’s political elite provides important insights into the nation’s political metamorphosis and the changes in cadre selection criteria. The current literature explains the composition of Chinese political elites by referencing cross-sectional biographic data and describing how the revolutionary veterans stepped down and were replaced by the technocrats who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. However, explanations for the rise of the technocrats have largely been limited to socioeconomic factors. By analyzing the longitudinal data of Chinese provincial leaders during the period of 1990–2013, this article shows the rise of technocrats in Chinese politics in the 1990s but also provides an explanation for it from the perspectives of individuals’ career paths and the contemporaneous political and policy landscapes. These explanations were drawn from analyses of the expansion of higher education and faculty restructuring in the 1950s, graduate job assignments, the recruitment and promotion of young and middle-aged cadres, and the cadre policy known as the Four Modernizations of the early 1980s. This article presents the interactions among individuals’ career opportunities, group composition characteristics, and socioeconomic and macropolitical dynamics. It also reveals how the Chinese Communist Party legitimizes its ruling power and maintains state capacity and political order through elite recruitment. |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of ChinaChina; education reform; elites; Four Modernizations; technocratsThe transformation of China’s political elite provides important insights into the nation’s political metamorphosis and the changes in cadre selection criteria. The current literature explains the composition of Chinese political elites by referencing cross-sectional biographic data and describing how the revolutionary veterans stepped down and were replaced by the technocrats who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. However, explanations for the rise of the technocrats have largely been limited to socioeconomic factors. By analyzing the longitudinal data of Chinese provincial leaders during the period of 1990–2013, this article shows the rise of technocrats in Chinese politics in the 1990s but also provides an explanation for it from the perspectives of individuals’ career paths and the contemporaneous political and policy landscapes. These explanations were drawn from analyses of the expansion of higher education and faculty restructuring in the 1950s, graduate job assignments, the recruitment and promotion of young and middle-aged cadres, and the cadre policy known as the Four Modernizations of the early 1980s. This article presents the interactions among individuals’ career opportunities, group composition characteristics, and socioeconomic and macropolitical dynamics. It also reveals how the Chinese Communist Party legitimizes its ruling power and maintains state capacity and political order through elite recruitment.Cogitatio2020-11-25info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3328oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3328Politics and Governance; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): Leadership and Political Change in Asia-Pacific; 157-1672183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3328https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3328https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3328/3328Copyright (c) 2020 Rongrong Linhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLin, Rongrong2022-10-21T16:03:03Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3328Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:13:44.630987Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China Lin, Rongrong China; education reform; elites; Four Modernizations; technocrats |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China |
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Lin, Rongrong |
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Lin, Rongrong |
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Lin, Rongrong |
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China; education reform; elites; Four Modernizations; technocrats |
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China; education reform; elites; Four Modernizations; technocrats |
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The transformation of China’s political elite provides important insights into the nation’s political metamorphosis and the changes in cadre selection criteria. The current literature explains the composition of Chinese political elites by referencing cross-sectional biographic data and describing how the revolutionary veterans stepped down and were replaced by the technocrats who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. However, explanations for the rise of the technocrats have largely been limited to socioeconomic factors. By analyzing the longitudinal data of Chinese provincial leaders during the period of 1990–2013, this article shows the rise of technocrats in Chinese politics in the 1990s but also provides an explanation for it from the perspectives of individuals’ career paths and the contemporaneous political and policy landscapes. These explanations were drawn from analyses of the expansion of higher education and faculty restructuring in the 1950s, graduate job assignments, the recruitment and promotion of young and middle-aged cadres, and the cadre policy known as the Four Modernizations of the early 1980s. This article presents the interactions among individuals’ career opportunities, group composition characteristics, and socioeconomic and macropolitical dynamics. It also reveals how the Chinese Communist Party legitimizes its ruling power and maintains state capacity and political order through elite recruitment. |
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