Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China
Victor Shih; Christopher Adolph; Mingxing Liu · 2012 · American Political Science Review
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Abstract (excerpt)
Spectacular economic growth in China suggests the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has somehow gotten it right. A key hypothesis in both economics and political science is that the CCP's cadre evaluation system, combined with China's…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1017/s0003055411000566