Challenging, complementing or assuming 'the Mandate of Heaven'? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China | |
Tao R. | |
2009 | |
关键词 | Social organizations Local governance Political distrust Rural China civil-society public-goods migration trust participation institutions communities governance democracy states |
英文摘要 | The emergence of self-governing social organizations is one of the most significant yet unexplored developments in rural China. By conducting a nationwide village-level survey, we find that these organizations are playing an important role in the provision of local public goods and services. To explain villagers' participation rates in these organizations, we specify and estimate two simultaneous equations and find that the level of villagers' distrust in township leaders exerts a significant and positive influence on the participation rates. We argue that, when distrusting local government officials, largely for their unwillingness or inability to provide public goods and services, villagers might attempt to participate in autonomous social organizations to serve their own and community's interests independently from the local Party-state. We also find that lineage structure and relations and labor out-migration have significant impacts on villagers' participation in such social organizations. Journal of Comparative Economics 37 (1) (2009) 151-168. Department of Financial & Management Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK; Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. (C) 2008 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
出处 | Journal of Comparative Economics |
卷 | 37 |
期 | 1 |
页 | 151-168 |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
ISSN号 | 0147-5967 |
内容类型 | SCI/SSCI论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/23207] |
专题 | 地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tao R.. Challenging, complementing or assuming 'the Mandate of Heaven'? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China. 2009. |
个性服务 |
查看访问统计 |
相关权益政策 |
暂无数据 |
收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。
修改评论