Accountability without Democracy
Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:27th Aug '07
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How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China.
Examines 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. This book explores how social institutions influence government officials.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.
'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.' The China Journal
ISBN: 9780521692809
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
Weight: 540g
368 pages