| ID | 159823 |
| Title Proper | Political Mobility of China's Central State-Owned Enterprise Leaders |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Leutert, Wendy |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Extensive research on the political mobility of Chinese officials at central, provincial, municipal and county levels has yet to fully consider an important group of elites – the leaders of China's core central state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper presents the first systematic analysis of their political mobility between 2003 and 2012 using an original biographical dataset with 864 leader-year observations. Under the Hu Jintao administration, these leaders emerged as a distinctive group within China's top political elite: increasingly well-educated but lacking experience beyond state-owned industry, with both lengthening leadership tenures and years of previous work in their companies. Instead of a “revolving door” through which these individuals rotate routinely between state-owned business and the Party-state to positions of successively higher rank, a top executive posting was most often a “one-way exit” to retirement. Of those who advanced politically, virtually all were transferred laterally along three career pathways with little overlap: to other core central SOEs; provinces; and the centre. This paper underscores the theoretical importance of disaggregating types of lateral transfer to research on Chinese officials’ political mobility and the cadre management system. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Quarterly Vol. 233 ; Mar 2018: p.1-21 |
| Journal Source | China Quarterly No 233 |
| Key Words | State-Owned Enterprises ; Elite Mobility ; Nomenklatura ; Cadre Management ; Lateral Transfer |