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- Title
Signal Left, Turn Right: Central Rhetoric and Local Reform in China.
- Authors
Huang, Haifeng
- Abstract
How have local governments in China been able to break through central policy restrictions in a unitary and authoritarian political system? Why is China’s official discourse in the reform era often so conservative and unfavorable to reform? The author argues the two issues are components of a signaling game between China’s central government and local officials, in which local officials know that the center may be reformist, but the reformist center imitates the rhetoric of a conservative center to control the pace of local liberalization. The result is a gradualist reform of “signaling left, turning right,” with glaring incongruity of speech and actions in the process.
- Subjects
CHINA; POLITICAL reform -- Social aspects; CHINESE politics &; government, 2002-; LOCAL government; DECENTRALIZATION in government; RHETORIC &; politics; CONSERVATISM
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2013, Vol 66, Issue 2, p292
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1065912912443874