Afterword and Reflections
In: China: CIJ ; an international journal, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 136-140
ISSN: 0219-8614
In: China: CIJ ; an international journal, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 136-140
ISSN: 0219-8614
In: The China quarterly, Band 250, Heft 1, S. 486-508
ISSN: 1468-2648
This article analyses the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the corporate governance of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including a case study of a central-level SOE holding group. Relying on official documents, secondary literature and interviews with enterprise managers, government officials and academics, the article documents how the CCP has actively formalized its role in Chinese business by embedding itself in the corporate governance structure of SOEs. Through the application of Chinese indigenous administrative corporate governance concepts such as "bidirectional entry, cross appointment" and "three majors, one big," the CCP has consolidated its dominance of enterprise decision-making procedures and personnel appointment and created a hybrid, Party-led model of corporate governance. While this hybrid model can secure enterprise compliance, communication with higher state and Party organs, as well as long-term development planning, it is unlikely to help solve SOE efficiency problems and may even undermine other SOE reforms. (China Q/GIGA)
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In: The China quarterly, Band 250, S. 486-508
ISSN: 1468-2648
AbstractThis article analyses the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the corporate governance of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including a case study of a central-level SOE holding group. Relying on official documents, secondary literature and interviews with enterprise managers, government officials and academics, the article documents how the CCP has actively formalized its role in Chinese business by embedding itself in the corporate governance structure of SOEs. Through the application of Chinese indigenous administrative corporate governance concepts such as "bidirectional entry, cross appointment" and "three majors, one big," the CCP has consolidated its dominance of enterprise decision-making procedures and personnel appointment and created a hybrid, Party-led model of corporate governance. While this hybrid model can secure enterprise compliance, communication with higher state and Party organs, as well as long-term development planning, it is unlikely to help solve SOE efficiency problems and may even undermine other SOE reforms.
Leading cadres in China are subject to rotation. An interesting form of rotation takes place between big business and the political world. That means one fifth of China's governors and vice governors have a business background as heads of one of China's large State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). How this takes place and which qualifications the involved business leaders possess are shrouded in mystery. Based on prosopographical studies of Chinese business leaders who have participated in the Chinese Executive Leadership Program (CELP), this article attempts to open the black box. The study examines the career pathways of CELP participants in Party, government and business positions. The study shows that 84 of the 261 CELP SOE participants (2005-2018) were subsequently promoted, and 20 of these promotions were from SOEs to leading Party and government positions. In some cases, former business leaders became Party secretaries in important provinces or ministers in key ministries. The article also argues that Chinese business leaders have managed to keep their administrative ranking in the Chinese nomenklatura system. In fact, Chinese business leaders are quasi officials (zhun guan) and form an important recruitment base for leadership renewal. As such, the article suggests that the rotation of cadres within the 'Iron Triangle' of Party–government–business constitutes the main unifying and stabilising factor in the Chinese political system.
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In: China: CIJ ; an international journal, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 107-122
ISSN: 0219-8614
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In: China policy series 59
Part I: Overview -- The Chinese Communist Party: An Interpretation / Zheng Yongnian -- China's Communist Party: From Mass to Elite Party / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Part II: Organizational and Ideological Integration -- Managing Human Resources to Sustain One-Party Rule / Lance L P Gore -- Party Chiefs, Formal and Informal Rules and Institutions / Wang Zhengxu and Dragan Pavlicevic -- Party Spirit: Producing Communist Belief in Contemporary China / Frank N. Pieke -- Part III: Elite Politics in the Reform Era -- What is a Faction? / Joseph Fewsmith -- Politics of Anti-corruption Campaign / Chen Gang -- Part IV: The Party in State, Society and Economy -- The Party/Army-State in Great Transformation / You Ji -- The Party in the Legislature and the Judiciary / Wang Jiangyu -- The Party in Grassroots Governance / Zhao Litao -- China's Central State Corporatism: the Party and the Governance of Centrally Controlled Businesses / Li Chen -- Part V: The Party and Foreign Policy -- International Department and China's Foreign Policy / Lye Liang Fook -- The Chinese Communist Party and Restructuring National Security Policymaking / Hu Weixing
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In: The China quarterly, Band 237, S. 261-263
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: China: CIJ ; an international journal, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 1-17
ISSN: 0219-8614
In: China policy series 44
Revisiting fragmented authoritarianism in China's central energy administration / Nis Grünberg -- "Fragmented authoritarianism" or "integrated fragmentation"? / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Tobacco control in China : institutions, bureaucratic noncompliance and policy ineffectiveness / Jiwei Qian -- Unorthodox approaches to public participation in authoritarian regimes : the making of China's recent healthcare reforms / Yoel Kornreich -- Private interests in Chinese politics : a case study on health care sector reforms / Daniele Brombal -- Bargaining science : negotiating earthquakes / Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen -- "When one place is in trouble, help comes from all sides" : fragmented authoritarianism in post-disaster reconstruction / Christian Sorace -- Urban climate change politics in China : fragmented authoritarianism and governance innovations in Hangzhou / Jørgen Delman -- The domestic politics of China's financial reform / Yang Jiang -- Catalysts to the fragmented party control of the gun : is it hollowed from inside-out? / You Ji.
In: Critical readings
Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- The Chinese Communist Party /Tony Saich -- The Evolving Party System /Andrew Walder -- China's Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience /Andrew J. Nathan -- Where Does Correct Party History Come From? The Construction of a Maoist Party History /Tony Saich -- In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th-Century Chinese History /Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- From Individual to Organization /Yongnian Zheng -- The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from the Inside /Kenneth Lieberthal -- The Party Domination of the State /Yongnian Zheng -- The ccp Central Committee's Leading Small Groups /Alice Miller -- Lifting the Veil of the ccp's Mishu System: Unrestricted Informal Politics within an Authoritarian Regime /Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Nicola Dean -- China's "Quiet Diplomacy": The International Department of the Chinese Communist Party /David Shambaugh -- Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China's Public Employment /Yuen Yuen Ang -- Management of Party Cadres in China /Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Remaking the Communist Party-State: The Cadre Responsibility System at the Local Level in China /Maria Edin -- Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China /Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li -- The Cadre Evaluation System at the Grass Roots: The Paradox of Party Rule /Susan H. Whiting -- The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System as a Leadership Selection Mechanism /John P. Burns -- Politics and Business Group Formation in China: The Party in Control? /Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Cadre Personnel Management in China: The Nomenklatura System, 1990–1998 /Hon S. Chan -- China's Central Party School /Ignatius Wibowo and Liang Fook Lye -- Marketization, Centralization and Globalization of Cadre Training in Contemporary China /Frank N. Pieke -- Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite, 1949–1996 /Bobai Li and Andrew G. Walder -- Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China /Victor Shih , Christopher Adolph and Mingxing Liu -- China's Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy /David Shambaugh -- Guiding Hand: The Role of the ccp Central Propaganda Department in the Current Era /Anne-Marie Brady -- Remaking the ccp's Ideology: Determinants, Progress, and Limits under Hu Jintao /Heike Holbig -- The Communist Party of China and Ideology /Kerry Brown -- Norms, Values and Cynical Games with Party Ideology /Børge Bakken -- A Factionalism Model for ccp Politics /Andrew J. Nathan -- The 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Formal Institutions and Factional Groups /Zhiyue Bo -- The Chinese Communist Party: Recruiting and Controlling the New Elites /Cheng Li -- Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation /Bruce J. Dickson -- Political Reform and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China /Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert -- The Communist Party and Social Management in China /Frank N. Pieke -- Bringing the Party Back In: The ccp and the Trajectory of Market Transition in China /Alexei Shevchenko.
In: China policy series, 44
This book explores how far the concept of fragmented authoritarianism remains valid as the key concept for understanding how the Chinese political process works. It contrasts fragmented authoritarianism, which places bureaucratic bargaining at the centre of policy-making, arguing that the goals and interests of the implementing agencies have to be incorporated into a policy if implementation is to be secured, with other characterisations of China's political process. Individual chapters consider fragmented authoritarianism at work in a range of key policy areas, including energy issues, climate change and environmental management, financial reform, and civil-military relations. The book also explores policy making at the national, provincial, city and local levels; debates how far the model of fragmented authoritarianism is valid in its current form or whether modifications are needed; and discusses whether the system of policy making and implementation is overcomplicated, unwieldy and ineffective or whether it is constructive in enabling widespread consultation and scope for imagination, flexibility and variation.
In: Brill China studies volume 38
The book is based on the hypothesis that a systematic analysis of the Chinese economic discourse is necessary in order to understand the underlying logic of Chinese economic development. The majority of works on the subject see China's economic development as a linear process of marketization or "growing out of the plan". In contradistinction to the prevailing paradigm, this book underlines that basic economic issues such as over-investment and unbalanced development continue to frame economic policy-making. The book is also unique in basing the narrative on a rich collection of Chinese language material.
In: The China quarterly, Band 225, S. 254-256
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 75, S. 210-212
ISSN: 1835-8535