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3 - The Communist Party’s Governance Challenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2019

Daniel C. Mattingly
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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This chapter introduces the challenge of political control that faces the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in rural China. Local CCP officials face a governance dilemma. They must control protest and implement unpopular policies such as land expropriation and relocation, or family planning quotas. Yet, as an original experiment shows, CCP cadres are seen as less trustworthy than the leaders of local community groups like lineages or neighborhood associations. The remainder of the book illustrates the resourceful ways that party cadres use these social ties to their advantage.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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