Footnote:
In: Comparative Politics, Volume 46, Number 4 (July 2014): pp.459-482
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2013 erstellt
Description:
Based on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we argue that: 1) autonomous or quasi-independent organizations play a very important role in collective action, but one that is perhaps different from what other scholars have emphasized; 2) the presence of such groups may well foster good governance and help contain the scale of contention, but they likely increase the frequency of contention and are not a prerequisite for good governance as measured by expenditures or development goal attainment; 3) the mechanism of quasi-independent organizations disciplining the local state appears to be regionally bounded, with a much different set of relationships and incentives shaping state-society relations outside of Fujian Province; and 4) this alternative amounts to a symbiotic relationship between local governments and non-state violent actors, providing a contrast that carries broad implications for the study of China and subnational governance more generally