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Varieties of Governance in China - Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages (Hardcover)
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Varieties of Governance in China - Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages (Hardcover)
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It is well understood that "good institutions" are essential for
good governance. But even institutions that follow similar designs
vary significantly with regard to performance across countries and
even across regions within the same country. Following China's
abolishment of the Commune system to accommodate market-oriented
reforms in the 1980s, decentralized, grassroots democracy was
introduced in rural China in order to improve the quality of local
governance. In this book, Jie Lu looks at variance among local
governance institutions in China to examine under what conditions
indigenously cultivated institutions are able to succeed,
particularly under pressures of economic modernization.
Lu argues that any governance institution can perform effectively
as long as it can produce collective action and accountability, but
that the relative effectiveness of institutions is contingent upon
the social environment in which they are embedded. When economic
conditions prompt outward migration, social environments are
reshaped such that rules-based national institutions will trump
indigenous forms. In identifying the optimal social conditions for
the good performance of different governance institutions and
theorizing the effects of social change on these institutions, Lu
deepens understanding of how institutions, particularly in
developing countries, change, and under what conditions
institutional modernization or engineering may succeed or fail.
Varieties of Governance in China is the first book to use a
coherent framework to simultaneously examine various aspects of
rural China's governance-including public goods provision, conflict
resolution, disaster and crisis relief, and raising modest credit
and small loans-covering both formal and informal institutions. It
is also the first book to systematically examine how community
structural transformation, primarily driven by rural-urban
migration, affects the performance and change of institutions in
rural China, as well as their implications for Chinese villages'
decentralized governance.
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