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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Grassroots political reform in contemporary China / / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9780674042056"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0674042050"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (416 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Harvard contemporary China series ; ; 14"]
[null,null,"Classificazione",null,"MH 50086"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"320.951"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Political participation - China"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Local government - China"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Protest movements - China"]
[{"$nulls":4},"China Politics and government 1949-"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397)."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman -- Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces / Richard Levy -- The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China / John James Kennedy -- Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences / Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai -- Direct township elections / Lianjiang Li -- The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China / Lily L. Tsai -- Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read -- Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights / Yongshun Cai -- \"Hope for protection and hopeless choices\" : labor legal aid in the PRC / Mary E. Gallagher -- Is labor a political force in China? / Ching Kwan Lee -- Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China / Xi Chen -- In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan / Ralph Litzinger -- Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials / Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Observers often note the glaring contrast between China's economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots efforts--initiated "]
[{"$nulls":4},"by the state and society alike--to restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities. While the authors offer varying views on the larger significance of these developments, their case studies point to a more dynamic Chinese political system than is often acknowledged."]