Full Description
Based on an in-depth investigation of different regions of China's vast countryside, Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China vividly describes rural governance mechanisms against the background of China's rapid urbanization. China's rural areas vary greatly from region to region with respect to the pace and mode of change. Rural governance in China is decided by how the state transfers resources to villages, and by the linkage between the transfer style and the specific situation of each village. Only when grassroots governance is based on rural democracy (with peasants as the core) can villages become more harmonious.
Contents
Series Editor's Note
Preface
PART 1
Who Can Be a Village Cadre? The Capable, the Ruthless, or the Rich?
1 Plutocratic Village Governance and Openness in Village Politics
2 The Wealthy as Representatives of the People
3 Plutocratic Village Governance in Central Shandong Province
4 Vote-Buying in Developed Areas
5 How the Village Cadres of Southern Jiangsu Province Became Mobile
6 Plutocratic Village Governance in Mei County, Shaanxi Province
7 The Income of Village Cadres in Southern Jiangxi Province
8 The Salary and Professionalization of Village Cadres
9 Village Doctors, Village Teachers, and Village Governance
10 People with Few Family Obligations Become the Mainstay of Village Governance in the Central and Western Regions
11 The Evolution of Village Cadres in Agricultural Areas
PART 2
Village Politics and Peasant Participation
12 Uncivil People
13 Why Are There Trouble-Makers
14 Being Reasonable and Being Ruthless
15 Conflicts Unavoidable in Maintaining Stability
16 Farmland Reallocation and Good Village Governance in Central Shandong Province
17 Convening a Peasants' Assembly to Reach Consensus
PART 3
State Resources to the Countryside and Peasant Participation
18 Offering Job Opportunities Instead of Sheer Relief
19 Peasant Participation in Rural Land Consolidation Projects
20 Emphasis on Peasants' Participation in the Transfer Payment Process
21 How Financial Resources Should Be Allocated to Villages
22 The Integration of Funds in the Villages of Qingyuan City
23 Village Debt
24 The Failure of Transfer Payments to Generate Vitality in Hollow-Shell Villages
PART 4
Exploring the Village Governance System
25 The Paradox between Small Government and Convenient Service Platforms
26 Low Probability Events and Dilemmas of Grassroots Governance
27 The More Interests Are Involved, the More Complicated the Rural Governance System
28 Supervision Mechanisms in the Grassroots Governance of Central Western Villages
29 The Secret of Building Happy Villages
30 The Necessity of Low-Cost Grassroots Governance
31 Village Governance by the Capable in Southern Jiangsu Province and Types of Chinese Village Governance
32 Village Governance in Shanghai
An Outlier Village Type
PART 5
The Social Foundation of Village Governance: Class, Faction, and Clan
33 How Peasant Differentiation Affects Village Governance
34 From the Rural Community of Interests to Profit-Sharing Order
35 Land Expropriation and Demolition Breed Factional Politics
36 The Unaffordability of Village Governance for Poor Village Collectives
37 Clan Power and Village Governance in Southern Jiangxi Province
38 The Downward Shift of Villagers' Autonomy in Qingyuan Village
39 Small Kinship Groups and Village Politics in Central Shandong Province
PART 6
The Drivers of Village Governance
40 The Need for More Varied Modes of Village Governance in China
41 Endogenous and Exogenous
The Driving Forces in Two Types of Village Governance
42 Superior and Subordinate
The Asymmetrical Distribution of Responsibility, Power, and Benefits
43 Grassroots Innovation Created the Chinese Miracle
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