Accountability Without Democracy Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China 1st edititon by LILY L TSAI ISBN 0521692806 ‎ 978-0521692809

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ISBN 10: 0521692806 ‎ 
ISBN 13:  ‎ 978-0521692809
Author: LILY L. TSAI 

This book 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 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.

Accountability Without Democracy Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China 1st Table of contents:

1 Governance and Informal Institutions of Accountability

Local Governance and Public Goods Provision

Explaining the Performance of Local Governments

Solidary Groups and Informal Accountability

Overview of the Book

Data

2 Decentralization and Local Governmental Performance

The Basic Structure of Village Government

The Provision of Local Public Goods in Rural China

Decentralization and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Unfunded Mandates and Informal Institutions of Local Public Finance

Informal Institutions of Public Finance at the Village Level

Reassessing Decentralization

A Darker Picture of Decentralization

Decentralization and Local Governmental Debt

Bureaucratic Inflation and Corruption

Conclusion

3 Local Governmental Performance: ASSESSING VILLAGE PUBLIC GOODS PROVISION

Rural Public Goods Provision in Historical Perspective

Roads

Rural Education

Rural Water Provision

Measuring Village Governmental Provision of Public Goods

Variation in Village Governmental Provision of Public Goods

Village Government Investment in Public Projects

Roads and Paths

Village School Facilities

Village Water Delivery

Public Goods Provision and Economic Development

Findings from the Survey

Provincial-Level Variation

Understanding Local Governmental Public Goods Provision in Rural China

4 Informal Accountability and the Structure of Solidary Groups

The Benefits of Moral Standing

The Awarding of Moral Standing

Encompassing and Embedding Solidary Groups

Moral Standing as Political Leverage

Solidary Groups in Rural China

Solidary Groups in the Early Twentieth Century

Solidary Groups in the Maoist Period

Solidary Groups and Rural Governance in the Reform Period

Moral Standing as a Political Resource for Local Officials

Moral Standing as a Political Resource for Citizens

The Awarding of Moral Authority

Shared Moral Obligations and Ethical Standards

Public Fulfillment of Obligations and Conferral of Moral Standing

Conclusion

5 Temples and Churches in Rural China

The Structure of Temples and Churches in Rural China

Findings from the Survey Data

Measuring the Dependent Variable

Measuring the Explanatory Variable

Control Variables

Analysis and Findings

Villages with Both Temples and Churches

Village Case Studies

Case 1: West Gate Village – Temple Councils and Moral Authority

Case 2: Yang Hamlet – Temple Festival Associations and Moral Authority

Case 3: South Bend Village – Church Institutions Substituting for Village Government

Conclusion

6 Lineages and Local Governance

Lineage Groups in Rural China

Findings from the Survey Data

Measuring the Explanatory Variable

Analysis and Findings

Villages with Multiple Types of Solidary Groups

Causal Mechanisms

Evaluating Alternative Causal Mechanisms

Informal Accountability and Confidence in Officials

Structured Comparison of Case Studies

Villagewide Lineage Groups and Governmental Performance

Subvillage Lineage Institutions and Governmental Performance

Intervillage Lineage Institutions

Conclusion

7 Accountability and Village Democratic Reforms

Grassroots Democratic Reforms in Rural China

The Case of River Bridge Village

Structured Comparisons of Case Studies

Fujian Village Case Studies: River Bridge and West Gate

Hebei Village Case Studies: Yang Hamlet and South Bend

Jiangxi Village Case Studies: High Mountain and Li Settlement

Measuring the Implementation of Democratic Institutions

Preelection Institutions

Voting Institutions

Villagers’ Representative Assemblies

Measuring Democratic Institutions in Multiple Ways

Analysis and Findings

Looking at Preelection, Voting, and Representative Assemblies Separately

Interactions between Village Democratic Institutions and Village Solidary Groups

The Limitations of Village Democratic Reforms

Lack of Leverage

Lack of Information

Elections and Civic Values

Conclusion

8 The Limitations of Formal Party and Bureaucratic Institutions

Formal Accountability at the Village Level

Formal Party Institutions of Accountability

Formal Bureaucratic Institutions of Accountability

The Limitations of Top-Down Control

Decentralization and Lack of Leverage

Decentralization and Lack of Incentives

Lack of Information

Findings from the Survey

Party Institutions of Accountability

Bureaucratic Institutions of Accountability

Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Findings

Informal Institutions and Governmental Performance

Informal Accountability and the Structure of Social Groups

Informal Accountability and Political Transitions

Understanding Governance and Development

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