1st Edition
The Politics of Rural Reform in China State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s
By Christian Göbel
Copyright 2010
240 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also known as the "Third Revolution in the Countryside". The aim of the tax was to improve social... Read more
1. ‘Peasant Burden‘ and the Dynamics of Rural Reform and Development 2. Bureaucratic Sprawl, Government Debt and ‘Peasant Burden’: How Serious? 3. The Institutional Sources of Peasant Burden 4. The Limited Agendas: Peasant Burden and Rural Fiscal Reforms 5. From Innovation Networks to Competition under Hierarchy 6. Reform Implementation and Ad-Hoc Policy Innovation 7. Impacts and Outcomes: The Case of Anhui Province 8. Why the ‘Third Rural Revolution’ Failed
Biography
Christian Göbel is a researcher of Political Science at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, where he also teaches Comparative Politics.
