Training the Party : Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-Era China (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. The organizational landscape; 3. Managing the managers; 4. Fusing party and market; 5. The entrepreneurial party school; 6. Adaptation measured; 7. Conclusion: risks and limits to party reforms; Appendices: A. Number of party schools, by locale and national share of leading cadres; B. Note on sources and research methods; C. Central Party School organization; D. City Z training allocations, 2008; E. Descriptive statistics and robustness tests of PSM presented in Chapter 3; F. Central Party School Mid-Career Cadre Training Classes descriptive data; G. International partnerships, central and provincial-level party schools; H. Categories for coding training syllabi.