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SUMMARY:Sitting Pretty: Local Representation in China's Party Leadership B
 odies - Dr Kyle Jaros\, Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Ch
 ina\, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies\, Lady Margaret Hall\, Univ
 ersity of Oxford.
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CONTACT:Shuai Eddie WEI
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nWithin the Leninist hierarchy of China's Communis
 t Party\, the practice of assigning some local leaders seats on higher-lev
 el leadership bodies presents a puzzle. Not only do provincial leaders hol
 d seats in China's central Politburo\; it is common for city-level leaders
  to hold seats in the provincial party standing committees (PPSCs) that ru
 n China's regions. Whereas some scholars understand the concurrent appoint
 ments of local leaders to higher-level decision-making bodies as a mode of
  top-down control and co-optation\, other work sees such representation as
  a channel for the assertion of local interests and autonomy. In this pape
 r\, we aim to adjudicate between these different views empirically by anal
 yzing the representation of city leaders on China's PPSCs. We develop a ty
 pology of territorial representation that differentiates "control"\, "co-o
 ptation"\, "coordination"\, and "concession"\, and we use quantitative and
  qualitative evidence to assess how closely the actual dynamics of local g
 overnance and resource allocation in China's provinces fit these different
  models. Our analysis suggests that local representation serves varying pu
 rposes\, but we find little evidence that concurrent appointments harm loc
 al interests.\n\n \n\nBio\n\nDr Jaros’s research looks at the politics o
 f subnational development and central-local relations in contemporary Chin
 a. Prior to joining the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at Oxford
 \, he was a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy
  School’s Ash Center\, and I earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from 
 the Department of Government at Harvard. He also hold an A.B. in Public an
 d International Affairs and a Certificate in Chinese Language and Culture 
 from Princeton University\, and a Graduate Certificate in Chinese Studies 
 from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.
LOCATION:Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road\,
  CB3 9DT
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