Political Recruitment

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Political Recruitment

• The rise of technocrats

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Political recruitment

• The process by which citizens are selected for
  involvement in politics
• Party system is the most important mechanism of
  political recruitment

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2 levels of recruitments

• Recruitment of power elite
• Party and government cadres
• Recruitment at the grassroots
• CCP membership

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Recruitment of cadres

• Rehabilitation of millions of cadres after
  Cultural Revolution
• The Partys new agenda of economic construction
• Retirement of these cadres
• Recruitment of younger and better educated cadres

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1982-84 Reforms
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The technocrats

• Higher education in engineering
• Disillusion with Maoist excesses
• Little commitment to ideology
• Pragmatic problem-solvers
• Not interested in Western values

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Recruitment at grassroots
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Political screening
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Class labels in Maoist years

• In countryside
• Landlords
• Rich peasants
• Middle peasants
• Poor peasants
• Farm hands

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Role of education
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Party membership
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Party members 2005 and 2010
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Composition of Members 2003
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Composition of Members 2004
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Composition of Members 2010
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New recruits in 2005 and 2010
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