Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party: An introduction to China's cadre management
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Julia Marinaccio graduated with a BA and an MA in Chinese Studies from the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. After her graduation she pursued further studies in Taiwan and completed an additional MA in Political Science at the National Chengchi University in 2013. Upon her return to Austria she embarked on a PhD project on capacity building in the Chinese bureaucracy. She is currently holding a research and teaching position at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on cadre management and environmental governance in China, and social movements in Taiwan.
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Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party - Julia Marinaccio
Julia Marinaccio
Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Cadres in China
Power relations inside the Party-state
Taking control of cadres
Conclusion
References
Credits
Julia Marinaccio
Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party
An introduction to China's cadre management
Introduction
The cadre management system is a set of formal rules that regulate the various matters of personnel affairs of public employees in the Chinese party-state, ranging from career path training, salary, selection and appointment, retirement and more. Informal practices such as factionalism, patron-client relations, and corruption pervade the system of formal cadre management, in particular in matters of recruitment, promotion and appointment.
China's cadre management system is an intriguing research field in international scholarship. Students of Chinese politics have tackled the issue using diverse approaches from disciplines including Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Management. They shed light on institutions, structures, and mechanisms of the Chinese cadre management system and its influence on various aspects of Chinese politics. Studies have employed qualitative and quantitative approaches, using data ranging from career background data drawn from databases, newspaper articles, interviews, and official documents.
This ebook does not present any original research conducted by the author herself, but rather summarizes important findings of scholarship in this field, focusing on the issue of power and control in the Chinese party-state. It should serve as an introduction to the main aspects of China's cadre management with regard to the institutional mechanisms that allow the Chinese Communist Party (zhongguo gongchandang 中国共产党) (CCP) to exercise power and control over its personnel. The ebook employs a historical comparative approach touching upon the historical continuities and discontinuities of the basic structures and processes in selection and appointment, and cadre training as a means to Leninist thought unification (tongyi sixiang 统一思想).
In order to provide a better understanding of the system as a whole and its role in Chinese politics, the paper starts with a discussion of the concept of cadres and introduces fundamental aspects about the political system in which cadre management in China takes place. The ebook reduces the scope of discussion by using a narrow definition of cadres as public employees. Hereafter the terms cadre
or official
are used interchangeably, as both are understood as public employees who work in party organs (dang 党), government departments (jiguan 机关or xingzheng danwei 行政单位), and their subsidiaries (shiye danwei 事业单位) (Ang 2012: 680).
Cadres in China
Before touching upon the specific components the cadre management system is comprised of, we first focus our discussion on the subjects and objects of management: cadres. In this chapter, we delve deeper into the historical development of the concept and its meaning in the Chinese political context. Following this, the cadre system is outlined, with a focus on internal hierarchical structures.
THE CONCEPT OF THE CADRE IN ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
The word cadre, in Chinese ganbu (干部), employs different meanings in different social and political contexts. Under communist single party rule, the term refers back to the Russian Revolution, during which cadres were considered the leaders of the revolution, while the masses were their followers (Brødsgaard 2012: 71). In this sense, the concept bears a social distinction based on the qualification of a person to assume a leadership