Training the party : party adaptation and elite training in reform-era China /

Training the party : party adaptation and elite training in reform-era China /

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Author / Creator:	Lee, Charlotte P., 1969- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Zhongguo gong chan dang. Zhongguo gong chan dang. Politics and government. China -- Politics and government -- 1949- China.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398505

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ISBN:	9781316358368 1316358364 9781316109175 1316109178 9781316364765 1316364763 9781316363768 1316363767 9781107462793 1107462797 9781107090637 1107090636
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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. -- Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Lee, Charlotte P., 1969- Training the party. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107090637

Table of Contents:

The organizational landscape : party schools' development and organization
Managing the managers : party schools as a pipeline to highter office
Fusing party and market : introducing market-based incentives to the party school system
The entrepreneurial party school : party school responses to reforms
Adaptation measured : content analysis of party school training
Risks and limits to party school reforms.