演讲人：Chen Shuo （复旦大学经济学院，香港科技大学社会科学部）

地点：清华大学明斋136室
时间：3/15日上午十点


题目：The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives andPolitical Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine （精英政治的悲剧：大跃进时期的职业激励与激进 ）

本文发表于American Political Science Review（《美国政治学评论》）（2011年2月号）


摘要：

A salient feature of China’s Great Leap Famine is that political radicalism varied enormouslyacross provinces. Using excessive grain procurement as a pertinent measure, we find that suchvariations were patterned systematically on the political career incentives of Communist Partyofficials rather than the conventionally assumed ideology or personal idiosyncrasies. Political rank alonecan explain 16.83% of the excess death rate: the excess procurement ratio of provinces governed byalternate members of the Central Committee was about 3% higher than in provinces governed by fullmembers, or there was an approximate 1.11‰ increase in the excess death rate. The stronger careerincentives of alternate members can be explained by the distinctly greater privileges, status, and powerconferred only on the rank of full members of the Central Committee and the “entry barriers” to thePolitburo that full members faced.


该文是内地学者首次在《美国政治科学评论》上发文，也是该期刊40年来第5篇基于中国的研究。《美国政治科学评论》是美国政治科学协会会刊，也是整个政治学领域最高期刊。此外，两位作者均为经济学背景。