Training the Party
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Training the Party

Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-era China

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Training the Party

Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-era China

About this book

Charlotte P. Lee considers organizational changes taking place within the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP), examining the party's renewed emphasis on an understudied but core set of organizations: party-managed training academies or 'party schools'. This national network of organizations enables party authorities to exert political control over the knowledge, skills, and careers of officials. Drawing on in-depth field research and novel datasets, Lee finds that the party school system has not been immune to broader market-based reforms but instead has incorporated many of the same strategies as actors in China's hybrid, state-led private sector. In the search for revenue and status, schools have updated training content and become more entrepreneurial as they compete and collaborate with domestic and international actors. This book draws attention to surprising dynamism located within the party, in political organizations thought immune to change, and the transformative effect of the market on China's political system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 The organizational landscape: Party schools’ development and organization
  11. 3 Managing the managers: Party schools as a pipeline to higher office
  12. 4 Fusing party and market: Introducing market-based incentives to the party school system
  13. 5 The entrepreneurial party school: Party school responses to reforms
  14. 6 Adaptation measured: Content analysis of party school training
  15. 7 Conclusion: Risks and limits to party school reforms
  16. Appendix A: Number of party schools, by locale and national share of leading cadres
  17. Appendix B: Note on sources and research methods
  18. Appendix C: Central Party School organization
  19. Appendix D: City Z training allocations, 2008
  20. Appendix E: Descriptive statistics and robustness tests of PSM presented in Chapter 3
  21. Appendix F: Central Party School Mid-Career Cadre Training Classes descriptive data
  22. Appendix G: International partnerships, central and provincial-level party schools
  23. Appendix H: Categories for coding training syllabi
  24. References
  25. Index