num_pages: 368
description: This book examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in rural China. In authoritarian and transitional systems, formal institutions for holding government officials accountable are often weak. The answer, Lily L. Tsai found, lies in a community's social institutions. Even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
language: English
title: Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
titlecomplete: Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
genres: Nonfiction, China, Political Science
ratings_count: 21
series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
publisher: Cambridge University Press