Political Selection in China - Couverture souple

Manion, Melanie

 
9781009327114: Political Selection in China

Synopsis

Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office - and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The evidence favors democratic elections as the selection institution that produces high governance quality. Yet authoritarian China, where a communist party monopolizes the selection of all officials of importance, presents a sophisticated and, by some measures, successful contrast to liberal democratic versions of political selection. Understanding how and how much the preferences of the few at the political center in Beijing systematically shape the composition and actions of the tens of thousands of leaders who manage politics, society, and the economy across China is foundational to understanding China. This Element critically reviews the literature on political selection in China to better structure our knowledge on this important question. It clarifies sources of greatly disparate findings in statistical studies and identifies major descriptive challenges to these studies in rich qualitative and quantitative evidence.

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9781009454193: Political Selection in China: Rethinking Foundations and Findings

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ISBN 10 :  1009454196 ISBN 13 :  9781009454193
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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