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

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Superior document:Harvard contemporary China series ; 14
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Harvard contemporary China series ; 14.
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Physical Description:vi, 402 p.
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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.