Format:
Online-Ressource (416 p)
ISBN:
9780674024861
Series Statement:
Harvard Contemporary China Ser v.14
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Historical Reflections on Grassroots Political Reform in China -- 2. Village Elections, Transparency,and Anticorruption: Henan and Guangdong Provinces -- 3. The Implementation of Village Elections andTax-for-Fee Reform in Rural Northwest China -- 4. Fiscal Crisis in China's Townships:Causes and Consequences -- 5. Direct Township Elections -- 6. The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions of Accountability in Rural China -- 7. Inadvertent Political Reform via Private Associations: Assessing Homeowners' Groups in New Neighborhoods -- 8. Civil Resistance and Rule of Law in China:The Defense of Homeowners' Rights -- 9. "Hope for Protection and Hopeless Choices":Labor Legal Aid in the PRC -- 10. Is Labor a Political Force in China? -- 11. Between Defiance and Obedience:Protest Opportunism in China -- 12. In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Politics in Northwest Yunnan -- 13. Public Opinion Supervision: Possibilities and Limits of the Media in Constraining Local Officials -- Notes -- Contributors.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674042056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674024861
Additional Edition:
Print version Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
Language:
English
Keywords:
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