Abstract
Though Studies of China’s political elites have made substantial gains since the 1990s, most of the existing literature on local Chinese leadership has concentrated on provincial leaders, and few have attempted to analyze local leaders at lower levels. There are even fewer studies on China’s county leaders, a group of cadres that manage about 3,000 county-level units in China. This paper attempts to serve as a prolegomenon to the study of China’s county leaders as a group. It begins with a survey of cadres in a top-down approach and see how far up a county leader can go in the Chinese political system. It then focuses on a case study of county leaders in one coastal province, Jiangsu, in both a top-down approach and a bottom-up approach. It draws some tentative conclusions from this case study and highlights some issues for further investigation.
Highlights
Studies of China’s political elites have made substantial gains since the 1990s
This paper attempts to serve as a prolegomenon to the study of China’s county leaders as a group.1. It begins with a survey of cadres in a top-down approach and see how far up a county leader can go in the Chinese political system
Other cities that have more than 50 percent of party leaders with county management experience include Changzhou (54.5 percent), Nanjing (53.8 percent), and Suqian (50 percent)
Summary
Studies of China’s political elites have made substantial gains since the 1990s. have we learned much more about national political elites and their interactions, including their demographic and social characteristic as well as their institutional and factional affiliations and their political dynamics (Unger, 2002; Bo, 2007), but we have managed to crack open the black box of local leadership and uncover the inner workings of local governance and the correlation between performance and political mobility (Huang, 1996; Bo, 2002). There are even fewer studies on China’s county leaders (an exception is Guo, 2007), a group of cadres that manage about 3,000 countylevel units in China. This paper attempts to serve as a prolegomenon to the study of China’s county leaders as a group.. This paper attempts to serve as a prolegomenon to the study of China’s county leaders as a group.1 It begins with a survey of cadres in a top-down approach and see how far up a county leader can go in the Chinese political system. It focuses on a case study of county leaders in one coastal province, Jiangsu, in both a top-down approach and a bottom-up approach. It draws some tentative conclusions from this case study and highlights some issues for further investigation
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