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Article: Eating, Drinking, and Power Signaling in Institutionalized Authoritarianism: China’s Antiwaste Campaign Since 2012
Title | Eating, Drinking, and Power Signaling in Institutionalized Authoritarianism: China’s Antiwaste Campaign Since 2012 |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10670564.asp |
Citation | Journal of Contemporary China, 2016, v. 26 n. 105, p. 337-352 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Immediately after Xi Jinping assumed the position of party secretary general (PSG), he launched a large-scale top-down antiwaste campaign amongst the Chinese cadre corps. Compared with similar policies announced by Xi’s predecessors, this campaign has distinct features that entail substantial political risk for the PSG. Why did Xi choose this politically risky strategy? Drawing on recent literature on authoritarian regimes, we argue that, amongst all possible objectives, an authoritarian leader such as Xi can use this type of policy campaign to demonstrate his power. In particular, the inherent importance of informal politics, the recent developments in Chinese politics, and Xi’s personal background have increased his incentive and capacity to signal power by implementing such a campaign. A comparison with Xi’s two predecessors, interviews, and statistical analyses support this argument. Our theoretical framework also sheds light on the literature on the power sharing of authoritarian political elites. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/228739 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.707 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhu, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Q | - |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Z | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T14:06:48Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T14:06:48Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Contemporary China, 2016, v. 26 n. 105, p. 337-352 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1067-0564 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/228739 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Immediately after Xi Jinping assumed the position of party secretary general (PSG), he launched a large-scale top-down antiwaste campaign amongst the Chinese cadre corps. Compared with similar policies announced by Xi’s predecessors, this campaign has distinct features that entail substantial political risk for the PSG. Why did Xi choose this politically risky strategy? Drawing on recent literature on authoritarian regimes, we argue that, amongst all possible objectives, an authoritarian leader such as Xi can use this type of policy campaign to demonstrate his power. In particular, the inherent importance of informal politics, the recent developments in Chinese politics, and Xi’s personal background have increased his incentive and capacity to signal power by implementing such a campaign. A comparison with Xi’s two predecessors, interviews, and statistical analyses support this argument. Our theoretical framework also sheds light on the literature on the power sharing of authoritarian political elites. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10670564.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Contemporary China | - |
dc.rights | Postprint: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [Eating, Drinking, and Power Signaling in Institutionalized Authoritarianism: China’s Antiwaste Campaign Since 2012] on [2016], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10670564.2016.1245899 | - |
dc.title | Eating, Drinking, and Power Signaling in Institutionalized Authoritarianism: China’s Antiwaste Campaign Since 2012 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhu, J: zhujn@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhu, J=rp01624 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10670564.2016.1245899 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84994087007 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 260186 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 105 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 337 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 352 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000400197700002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1067-0564 | - |