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Central Control and Local Discretion in China - Leadership and Implementation during Post-Mao Decollectivization (Hardcover)
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Central Control and Local Discretion in China - Leadership and Implementation during Post-Mao Decollectivization (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Contemporary China
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This book analyses the decollectivization reform in China during
the early 1980s in order to gauge the impact of post-Mao
decentralization on central control and provincial discretion. The
volume challenges the notion that the decision to decentralize
administrative authority ipso facto produces local discretion
properly keyed to local conditions. In fact, outcomes often differ
from the intended goals. While, generally, local interests and
central-local clientilistic networks determine the policy responses
of the provinces, bureaucratic careerism also plays a crucial role.
In the case of post-Mao decollectivization, national-level analyses
suggest that a majority of provinces adopted household farming
neither too quickly nor too slowly, since both 'pioneering' and
'resisting' entailed potentially enormous political risks. Once
Beijing's preference appeared firmly fixed, however, they all
quickly bandwagoned by popularizing the policy as swiftly as
possible. Three detailed case studies of Anhui as a pioneer,
Shandong as a bandwagoner, and Heilongjiang as a resister further
highlight the evolutionary process in which provincial variations
came to be replaced by uniform compliance imposed by Beijing.
Theoretically, this study contends that the overall scope of local
discretion is circumscribed by the dominant norms and incentive
relations embedded in the implementation dynamics.
Methodologically, the book employs a combination of aggregate
analyses and comparative case studies. Empirically, on the basis of
newly available materials (including classified documents) and
interviews, it challenges the 'peasant-power' school which has
somehow allowed local governments to evaporate in its descriptions
of post-Mao decollectivization.
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