Rural tax reform in China : policy process and institutional change / / Linda Chelan Li

• Autore: Li Linda Chelan
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 336.200951/091732
• Soggetto topico: Taxation - China; Peasants - Taxation - China; Rural population - Economic aspects - China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Rural Tax Reform in China; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Path creation? Processes and networks: how the Chinese rural tax reform began; 2. Differentiated actors: central-local politics in reform evolution; 3. Embedded institutionalization: sustaining reform effects; 4. State and market in public service provision: opportunities and traps; 5. Path dependence, agency and implementation in local administrative reform; 6. Working for the peasants: strategic interactions and unintended consequences; Conclusion ; Appendix: a chronology of major events and actorsNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China. How can some changes be sustained, whilst others cannot? How can a longstanding administrative practice be changed or even terminated, especially when previous attempts at change have failed?Using extensive interview data with local and central bureaucrats, Li's findings highlight the role of parallel developments and agency in the change process, as well as the prevalence of contingency and uncertainty. It also elegantly blends the narrative
• Titolo autorizzato: Rural tax reform in China
• ISBN: 1-136-61781-7; 0-203-57480-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451758903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies on China in transition ; ; 41.