Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:2726Hits:21009615Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID123961
Title ProperOnly the party manages cadres
Other Title Informationlimits of Local People's Congress supervision and reform in China
LanguageENG
AuthorAlmen, Oscar
Publication2013.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article joins the debate on the increasingly consultative nature of Chinese politics by adding the role of the Local People's Congress (LPC). In contrast to previous research on LPCs that emphasizes their increasing importance and improved capacity, this article shows that the central Party leadership, in order to uphold its monopoly of the cadre management system, has reduced LPC standing committees' (LPCSC) influence over cadres. The article analyses the consequences of the People's Congress Standing Committee Supervision Law passed in 2006 and the policy of appointing the first Party secretary as LPCSC chairperson. A case study of the changes over a ten-year period (1998-2009) in a county People's Congress (PC) in Zhejiang illustrates how the change in leadership and the implementation of the Supervision Law effectively stopped previously initiated reforms to strengthen the LPC and crippled the LPCSCs' capacity to supervise government cadres. The article concludes that the policies adopted in order to strengthen Party control over LPCSCs have resulted in a decrease of horizontal accountability and confirm the image of an emerging consultative authoritarian political system.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Contemporary China Vol. 22, No.80; Mar 2013: p.237-254
Journal SourceJournal of Contemporary China Vol. 22, No.80; Mar 2013: p.237-254
Key WordsLocal People's Congress ;  Central Party Leadership ;  Cadre Management System ;  Congress Standing Committee Supervision Law ;  China