PSCI252 Lecture Notes - Sinopec, Making Money, Beijing Consensus
30 Apr 2014
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China: party state and market reforms: communist party of china, from moaism to market reforms, reforming china"s agriculture and industry, china in the global economy. In r the com. party lost political power and then the gov"t impelemented market reform. In c. market reforms came from within the communist party. Politiburo - standing committee only 5 or 6 people, 20 member. General secretary is selected from standing committee. The way that leaders are selected in kind of mystery to the outside world. What is taken into account is such things as seniority, connections, general influence, For some time, there has been a lot of talk of incorporating internal democracy. The selection of the politburo which hold a consierable amount of power has been said to need more transperancy, more competititon, etc. Party state: china"s legislature, executive and judiciary are controlled by cpc through a system of interlocking directorships (same person holds many important posistions, different from liberal seperation of powers.
