Grassroots political reform in contemporary China
edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman
- Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces / Richard Levy
- The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China / John James Kennedy
- Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences / Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai
- Direct township elections / Lianjiang Li
- The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China / Lily L. Tsai
- Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read
- Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights / Yongshun Cai
- "Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC / Mary E. Gallagher
- Is labor a political force in China? / Ching Kwan Lee
- Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China / Xi Chen
- In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan / Ralph Litzinger
- Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials / Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan.
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- Languages:
- English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397).
- Physical Description:
- vi, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- JQ1516 .G73 2007
- ISBNs:
- 9780674024854 (cloth, alk. paper)
0674024850 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780674024861 (pbk., alk. paper)
0674024869 (pbk., alk. paper) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2007002992
- OCLC Numbers:
- 80360244