Political Trust and Petitioning in the Chinese Countryside
In: Comparative politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 209-226
ISSN: 2151-6227
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In: Comparative politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 209-226
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: Comparative politics, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 209-226
ISSN: 0010-4159
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In: Comparative Politics, Band 40, Heft 2
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In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 340-341
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 105, Heft 692, S. 250-254
ISSN: 1944-785X
Beijing may wish to keep the rural population as apolitical and passive as possible, but it must understand that this is fast becoming an impossible task.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 105, Heft 692, S. 250-254
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 105, Heft 652, S. 250-254
ISSN: 0011-3530
In: The China quarterly, Band 177, S. 216-217
ISSN: 1468-2648
Bernstein and Lü present a powerful argument that the problem of "peasant burdens" cannot be resolved unless rural taxpayers are included as fully-fledged polity members whose interests are represented in both policy making and policy implementation. They do so by addressing two important puzzles. In chapters two to four, the authors examine the paradoxical combination of light central taxation and onerous local extraction that has haunted rural China for centuries. They attribute this problem to two major institutional tensions. One is that Chinese peasants remain essentially subjects without political rights vis-à-vis the state (p. 38); the other is that subordinates in the bureaucracy have no right to disagree and negotiate with their superiors (pp. 41–42, 91–95). The authors show that these long-standing facts of life induce local officials to increase levies and taxes while the central state works hard but often fruitlessly to contain these same burdens (p. 90, pp. 109–114). In the end, all three parties involved in rural taxation lose out. The centre suffers because the public loses confidence in its ability to control local officials (pp. 51–56); local officials see their popular support drain away when they try to meet their "unfunded mandates," such as compulsory basic education (p. 56, p. 88); peasants, especially the poorer ones, lose most, as they not only lose a substantial portion of their income but are also often bullied or subjected to physical force by enforcers of unlawful extraction (pp. 60–61; 78–80).
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 177, S. 216
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: Asian survey, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 648-662
ISSN: 1533-838X
This article shows that Chinese villagers feel a higher level of political efficacy after their first free and fair village election because they can now remove unresponsive cadres. It concludes that enhanced efficacy may lead to more active participation, which in turn may affect political restructuring in Chinese villages.
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 648-662
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: The China quarterly, Band 171, S. 704-723
ISSN: 1468-2648
Based on archival sources and interviews, this article relates the untold story behind several township elections. It shows that these experiments were largely the result of a discursive opening on expanding grassroots democracy, and efforts by local leaders to promote their careers by taking the lead in initiating electoral reforms. It suggests that over two decades of post-Mao reform may have encouraged a belief among some local officials that history is on the reformers' side. It also suggests that the current cadre management system may enable mid-level leaders to introduce political reforms at a lower level without seeking prior approval from their superiors. The article argues that succession politics may re-open the door for further electoral reform and that the international community can offer protection to local initiatives by pressing the Chinese government to improve its human rights record.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 171, S. 704-723
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
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In: Asien: the German journal on contemporary Asia, Band 84, S. 56-58
ISSN: 0721-5231