{"product_id":"cadres-and-corruption-9780804739580","title":"Cadres and Corruption","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, \u003ci\u003eCadres and Corruption\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the long history of the party's inability to maintain a corps of committed and disciplined cadres. Contrary to popular understanding of China's pervasive corruption as an administrative or ethical problem, the author argues that corruption is a reflection of political developments and the manner in which the regime has evolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on a wide range of previously unpublished documentary material and extensive interviews conducted by the author, the book adopts a new approach to studying political corruption by focusing on organizational change within the ruling party. In so doing, it offers a fresh perspective on the causes and changing patterns of official corruption in China and on the nature of the Chinese Communist regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy inquiring into the developmental trajectory of the party's organization and its cadres since it came to power in 1949, the author argues that corruption among Communist cadres is not a phenomenon of the post-Mao reform period, nor is it caused by purely economic incentives in the emerging marketplace. Rather, it is the result of a long process of what he calls organizational involution that began as the Communist party-state embarked on the path of Maoist \"continuous revolution.\" In this process, the Chinese Communist Party gradually lost its ability to sustain officialdom with either the Leninist-cadre or the Weberian-bureaucratic mode of integration. Instead, the party unintentionally created a neotraditional ethos, mode of operation, and set of authority relations among its cadres that have fostered official corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xiaobo Lü","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48297293873403,"sku":"9780804739580","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780804739580.jpg?v=1772482441","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/cadres-and-corruption-9780804739580","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}