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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    27 August 2007
    ISBN:
    9780511800115
    9780521871976
    9780521692809
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800115
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.612kg, 368 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.54kg, 368 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    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.

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    'Lily Tsai has written an elegant book to explain variations in the government provision of public goods in rural China through a model of informal accountability. … This inspiring piece of work will be required reading for students of Chinese politics and those interested in governance in developing polities.'

    Source: The China Journal

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