Lily Lee Tsai

Accountability Without Democracy

Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China

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Produktbeschreibung

How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9780521871976
• ISBN-10: 0521871972
• Artikelnr.: 21096941

Autorenporträt

Lily L. Tsai is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her research for this book received the Best Field Work Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Comparative Democratization in 2005. She has written articles in Comparative Economic and Social Systems (Jingji Shehui Tizhi Bijiao) and The China Quarterly. Two of her articles are forthcoming in edited volumes by Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman and by Lei Guang. Professor Tsai is a graduate of Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and distinction in English literature and international relations. She received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Governance and informal institutions of accountability
2. Decentralization and local governmental performance
3. Local governmental performance: assessing village public goods provision
4. Informal accountability and the structure of solidary groups
5. Temples and churches in rural China
6. Lineages and local governance
7. Accountability and village democratic reforms
8. The limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions
9. Conclusion.