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- Title
Institution, network and elites' political attitudes: An analysis of the "Wen Jiabao Phenomenon".
- Authors
Sangkuk Lee
- Abstract
Unlike China's other top leaders, Premier Wen Jiabao has presented his political views after the 17th CCP Congress. Wen's assertive attitude for further political reform has attracted attention from international as well as domestic media. This article utilizes both institutionalism and network analysis to explain this uncommon political phenomenon, while it illuminates the drawback of the attribute perspective which has been used popularly to infer the attitudes of China's political elites. This study argues that Wen's attitude with personality has been produced by some institutional and network factors, They include: the decline of a powerful rival, different functions of the party and state in China's policymaking and implementation, division of policy work among Politburo Standing Committee leaders.
- Subjects
CHINA; WEN, Jiabao, 1942-; CHINESE Communist Party; CHINESE politics &; government; MASS media; POLITICAL elites; HU, Jintao, 1942-; ZENG Qinghong; HUANG Ju; JIA Qinglin; CHINESE politics &; government, 2002-
- Publication
Communist & Post-Communist Studies, 2012, Vol 45, Issue 1/2, p105
- ISSN
0967-067X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.02.008