Grassroots political reform in contemporary China
By: edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman.
Contributors: Perry, Elizabeth J.; Goldman, Merle.
Series: Harvard contemporary China series -- 14
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780674024854; 9780674024861
Subjects: Political participation -- China; Local government -- China; Protest movements -- China; China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China -- Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman; title: Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces -- Richard Levy; title: The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China -- John James Kennedy; title: Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences -- Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai; title: Direct township elections -- Lianjiang Li; title: The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China -- Lily L. Tsai; title: Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods -- Benjamin L. Read; title: Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights -- Yongshun Cai; title: "Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC -- Mary E. Gallagher; title: Is labor a political force in China? -- Ching Kwan Lee; title: Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China -- Xi Chen; title: In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan -- Ralph Litzinger; title: Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials-- Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan.