Political mobility of Chinese regional leaders : performance, preference, promotion / Liang Qiao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qiao, Liang (Assistant professor of political science), author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local officials and employees--Selection and appointment--China.

Local officials and employees.

Local government--China.

Local government.

Local officials and employees--Selection and appointment.

China.

China--Administrative and political divisions.

Administrative and political divisions.

Physical Description:

ix, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public. The professional trajectories of Chinese regional leaders are mysterious in many ways. Their promotions and demotions can be "predictable" in terms of their age, gender, nationality, education, factions, and previous engagements in the political system. Yet, speaking of their capability, performance, opportunities and arrangements, their future can also be "unexpected". Such arrangements are always originated from the Organization (zuzhi) which represents the Chinese Communist Party. What are the factors the organization considers in order to make its final decisions on nominating and appointing a regional leader? Today's regional leaders of China will very likely become the central leaders of China in the future. By making an empirical analysis of Chinese regional leaders' political mobility, Qiao establishes a descriptive political mobility model that reveals leadership trajectories in Chinese politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138205512

1138205516

OCLC:

975370195