Jie Lu

Varieties of Governance in China (eBook, PDF)

Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages

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Produktbeschreibung

It is well understood that "good institutions" are essential for good governance. But even institutions that follow similar designs vary significantly with regard to performance across countries and even across regions within the same country. Following China's abolishment of the Commune system to accommodate market-oriented reforms in the 1980s, decentralized, grassroots democracy was introduced in rural China in order to improve the quality of local governance. In this book, Jie Lu looks at variance among local governance institutions in China to examine under what conditions indigenously cultivated institutions or externally imposed institutions are able to succeed, particularly under pressures of economic modernization. Lu argues that any governance institution can perform effectively as long as it can produce collective action and accountability, but the relative effectiveness of institutions is contingent upon the social environment in which they are embedded. When economic conditions prompt outward migration, social environments are reshaped such that rules-based formal institutions will trump relation-based indigenous forms. In identifying the optimal social conditions for the effective performance of different governance institutions and theorizing the effects of social change on these institutions, Lu deepens understanding of how institutions, particularly in developing countries, change, and under what conditions institutional modernization or engineering may succeed or fail.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199378753
• Artikelnr.: 41660872

Autorenporträt

Jie Lu is Assistant Professor of Government at American University. Lu studies local governance, the political economy of institutional change, public opinion, and political participation. Lu's work has appeared or will appear in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Political Psychology, Politics & Society, Political Communication, Journal of Democracy, China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1. Introduction
* Chapter 2. Local Governance in Transformed Communities
* Chapter 3. Evolution of China's Rural Governance and Rural-Urban
Migration
* Chapter 4. Local Publi Goods Provision, Institutional Performance,
and Rural-Urban Migration in Chinese Villages
* Chapter 5. Transformed Social Foundations of Governance in Rural
China: Rural-Urban Migration and Social Environments in Chinese
Villages
* Chapter 6. Rural-Urban Migration and Contextualized Institutional
Choices in Rural China
* Chapter 7. Conclusion
* Chapter 8. Epilogue: New Opportunities for Rural China's Governance?
* Chapter 1 Appendix: 2008 Asia Barometer Survey Mainland China Survey
(ABSMCS) and 2008 National Village Survey (NVS)
* Chapter 4 Appendix: Multivariate Probit Regression (MPR)
* Chapter 5 Appendix
* Chapter 6 Appendix
* Notes
* Reference List
* Index