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Cadre Parents and Their Entrepreneurial Children? the Dual-Track Intergenerational Reproduction of State and Market Elites in China: 1978-2010
been influencing the hazard rate of their children’s status attainment in four certain elite positions (administrative elite,
technocratic elite, entrepreneurial elite, and managerial elite), and whether these patterns have shown varieties during
three different historical times from 1978-1992, 1993-2002, to 2003 -
2010. Based on merged data from CSS 2006 and 2011, by using event history analysis,
we find that although parent’s advantaged position has a persistent effect for children’s status attainment, its function
in general still does not break the ‘dual trajectory reproduction model’ that state elite and market elite tend to reproduce
itself without revolving access; it is only after 2003 when individuals whose parents are state elites shows more likelihood
to become market managerial elites. We explains these findings, and further reveals that, by using mechanism analysis, the
mechanisms that produce this ongoing structural reproduction, however, have been constantly changing in different historical times,
especially for the increasingly diversified market elites. These changing mechanisms have been reflecting the macro transformation of
China’s sociopolitical and economic environment in the past thirty decades.