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Signal Left, Turn Right: Central Rhetoric and Local Reform in China
Ist Teil von
Political research quarterly, 2013-06, Vol.66 (2), p.292-305
Ort / Verlag
Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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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.