Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China Tapa dura - 2007

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 state often lacks sufficient resources to monitor its officials closely, and citizens are limited in their power to elect officials they believe will perform well and to remove them when they do not. 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.

Detalles

• Título Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
• Autor Lily Lee Tsai
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Páginas 368
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Cambridge University Press
• Fecha de publicación 2007-08-27
• Features Bibliography, Index
• ISBN 9780521871976 / 0521871972
• Peso 1.15 libras (0.52 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.1 x 6 x 1 pulgadas (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
• Temas
  • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
• Library of Congress subjects China - Rural conditions, Social institutions - China
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006035959
• Dewey Decimal Code 320.840