Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages

by Jie Lu

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199378746
• ISBN13: 9780199378746
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"