Journal article
The over-cascading system of cadre evaluation and China's authoritarian resilience
Rui Qi, Chenchen Shi, Mark Wang
CHINA INFORMATION | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2020
Abstract
China’s cadre evaluation system – the personnel management system used to assess the performance of government officials in the party-state – is considered an important tool for upper-level governments to supervise and regulate lower-level agents. This system is one of the key factors contributing to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian resilience. Deficiencies of this system are exemplified by the ‘blind pursuit of GDP’, selective implementation, gaming, collusion, and data fabrication. The CCP has been reforming this system to strengthen its monitoring and political control over local government cadres, especially at the county level, and it is a crucial component in the step-..
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Awarded by Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund
Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Awarded by Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education of China
Awarded by Open Fund of the Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences
Awarded by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was financially supported by the Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund (grant no. 14CKS014); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 718041067); the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (grant no. 17YJC630028); the Open Fund of the Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences (grant no. H2014008A); and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant no. CUG170624). The authors would like to thank Jon Barnett for providing insightful suggestions to this article. We are also grateful to the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their careful reviews and helpful comments.