TY  - BOOK
AU  - He,Xuefeng
TI  - Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China
T2  - The Social Sciences of Practice Series
SN  - 9789004448285
AV  - JS7353.A8 .H4 2021 
U1  - 320.80951 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Local government-China
KW  - Villages-China
KW  - China-Rural conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Series Editor's Note -- Preface -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Part 1 Who Can Be a Village Cadre? The Capable, the Ruthless, or the Rich? -- Chapter 1 Plutocratic Village Governance and Openness in Village Politics -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 2 The Wealthy as Representatives of the People -- Chapter 3 Plutocratic Village Governance in Central Shandong Province -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 4 Vote-Buying in Developed Areas -- 1 A Village Cadre Worth 10 Million Yuan -- 1.1 The 2008 Villagers' Committee Election: A Case in Luge Village -- 1.2 The 2011 Villagers' Committee Election -- 1.3 The 2011 Village Party Branch Elections -- 1.4 Village Representative Elections -- 2 The Motivation for Vote-Buying -- 2.1 -- 2.2 -- 2.3 -- 3 A Consensus on Plutocratic Village Governance -- 4 Villages Dominated by Wealth and Power -- Chapter 5 How the Village Cadres of Southern Jiangsu Province Became Mobile -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 6 Plutocratic Village Governance in Mei County, Shaanxi Province -- 1 -- 2 -- 2.1 The Gujiabao Village (古家堡村) Party Branch Secretary -- 2.2 The Gucheng Village (古城村) Party Branch Secretary -- 2.3 The Hengqu Village Party Branch Secretary -- 2.4 The Fengchi Village (凤池村) Party Branch Secretary -- 2.5 The Sunjiayuan Village (孙家园村) Party Branch Secretary -- 2.6 The Shimali Village (石 李村) Party Branch Secretary -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Chapter 7 The Income of Village Cadres in Southern Jiangxi Province -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 8 The Salary and Professionalization of Village Cadres -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Chapter 9 Village Doctors, Village Teachers, and Village Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 10 People with Few Family Obligations Become the Mainstay of Village Governance in the Central and Western Regions -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6; Chapter 11 The Evolution of Village Cadres in Agricultural Areas -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Part 2 Village Politics and Peasant Participation -- Chapter 12 Uncivil People -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Chapter 13 Why Are There Trouble-Makers? -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 14 Being Reasonable and Being Ruthless -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 15 Conflicts Unavoidable in Maintaining Stability -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 16 Farmland Reallocation and Good Village Governance in Central Shandong Province -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 17 Convening a Peasants' Assembly to Reach Consensus -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Part 3 State Resources to the Countryside and Peasant Participation -- Chapter 18 Offering Job Opportunities Instead of Sheer Relief -- Chapter 19 Peasant Participation in Rural Land Consolidation Projects -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 20 Emphasis on Peasants' Participation in the Transfer Payment Process -- Chapter 21 How Financial Resources Should Be Allocated to Villages -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 22 The Integration of Funds in the Villages of Qingyuan City -- Chapter 23 Village Debt: An Ulcer on Village Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 24 The Failure of Transfer Payments to Generate Vitality in Hollow-Shell Villages -- Part 4 Exploring the Village Governance System -- Chapter 25 The Paradox between Small Government and Convenient Service Platforms -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 26 Low Probability Events and Dilemmas of Grassroots Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Chapter 27 The More Interests Are Involved, the More Complicated the Rural Governance System -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 28 Supervision Mechanisms in the Grassroots Governance of Central Western Villages -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Chapter 29 The Secret of Building Happy Villages -- 1 -- 2 -- Chapter 30 The Necessity of Low-Cost Grassroots Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3; Chapter 31 Village Governance by the Capable in Southern Jiangsu Province and Types of Chinese Village Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- Chapter 32 Village Governance in Shanghai: An Outlier Village Type -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 5.1 Village Governance Centered on the Allocation of Financial Resources -- 5.2 Why There Is No Vote-Buying in Shanghai's Villages -- 5.3 Village Cadre as a Profession -- 6 -- Part 5 The Social Foundation of Village Governance: Class, Faction, and Clan -- Chapter 33 How Peasant Differentiation Affects Village Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 34 From the Rural Community of Interests to Profit-Sharing Order -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 35 Land Expropriation and Demolition Breed Factional Politics -- Chapter 36 The Unaffordability of Village Governance for Poor Village Collectives -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 37 Clan Power and Village Governance in Southern Jiangxi Province -- 1 Family Planning in Southern Jiangxi Province -- 1.1 -- 1.2 -- 1.3 -- 1.4 -- 2 Peasant Burden and Cadre-masses Relationship in Southern Jiangxi -- 2.1 -- 2.2 -- 2.3 -- Chapter 38 The Downward Shift of Villagers' Autonomy in Qingyuan Village -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 39 Small Kinship Groups and Village Politics in Central Shandong Province -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Part 6 The Drivers of Village Governance -- Chapter 40 The Need for More Varied Modes of Village Governance in China -- 1 -- 2 -- Chapter 41 Endogenous and Exogenous: The Driving Forces in Two Types of Village Governance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Chapter 42 Superior and Subordinate: The Asymmetrical Distribution of Responsibility, Power, and Benefits -- 1 -- 2 -- Chapter 43 Grassroots Innovation Created the Chinese Miracle -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Index
N2  - 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
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