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The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine

KUNG, JAMES KAI-SING, CHEN, SHUO·2011·American Political Science Review
DOI 10.1017/s0003055410000626
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A salient feature of China's Great Leap Famine is that political radicalism varied enormously across provinces. Using excessive grain procurement as a pertinent measure, we find that such variations were patterned systematically on the political career incentives of Communist Party officials rather than the conventionally assumed ideology or personal idiosyncrasies. Political rank alone can explain 16.83% of the excess death rate: the excess procurement ratio of provinces governed by alternate members of the Central Committee was about 3% higher than in provinces governed by full members, or there was an approximate 1.11‰ increase in the excess death rate. The stronger career incentives of alternate members can be explained by the distinctly greater privileges, status, and power conferred only on the rank of full members of the Central Committee and the “entry barriers” to the Politburo that full members faced.

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Authors
KUNG, J. K.-S., & CHEN, S.
Venue
American Political Science Review
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-02
Volume
105
Issue
1
Pages
27-45
ISSN
  • 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5943
DOI
10.1017/s0003055410000626
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298
References
53
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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KUNG, J. K.-S., & CHEN, S. (2011). The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055410000626

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