Grassroots political reform in contemporary China / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman.

• Superior document: Harvard contemporary China series ; 14
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Perry, Elizabeth J.; Goldman, Merle.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard contemporary China series ; 14.
• Physical Description: vi, 402 p.
• Other title: Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China /; Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces /; The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China /; Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences /; Direct township elections /; The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China /; Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods /; Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights /; "Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC /; Is labor a political force in China? /; Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China /; In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan /; Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397).
• ISBN: 9780674024854 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674024850 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780674024861 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0674024869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman.