Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58189 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 184
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
China's national leaders see restructuring and diversification away from resourcebased, energy intensive industries as central goals in the coming years. This paper argues that the high turnover of leading cadres at the local level may hinder state-led greening growth initiatives. Frequent cadre turnover is intended to keep local Party secretaries and mayors on the move in order to curb localism and promote compliance with central directives. Yet, with average term lengths of between three and four years, local leaders' short time horizons can have the perverse effect of discouraging them from taking on comprehensive restructuring, a costly, complex and lengthy process. On the basis of extensive fieldwork in Shanxi province during 2010 and 2011, the paper highlights the salience of frequent leadership turnover for China's green growth ambitions.
Subjects: 
Local state
China
policy implementation
governance
cadre rotation
JEL: 
D78
D73
O18
R58
Q48
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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