Tax reform in rural China : revenue, resistance, and authoritarian rule

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Tax reform in rural China : revenue, resistance, and authoritarian rule

Title remainder

revenue, resistance, and authoritarian rule

Statement of responsibility

Hiroki Takeuchi

Creator

• Takeuchi, Hiroki

Subject

• Fiscal policy -- China
• Rural development -- China
• Rural population -- China
• Taxation -- China

Language

eng

Summary

"How does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms? This book analyzes this puzzle by offering a systematic analysis of the central-local governmental relationship in rural China, focusing on rural taxation and political participation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese local officials and villagers, and combining them with game-theoretic analyses, it argues that the central government uses local governments as a target of blame for the problems that the central government has actually created. The most recent rural tax reforms, which began in 2000, were a conscious trade-off between fiscal crises and rural instability. For the central government, local fiscal crises and the lack of public goods in agricultural areas were less serious concerns than the heavy financial burdens imposed on farmers and the rural unrest that the predatory extractive behavior of local governments had generated in the 1990s, which threatened both economic reforms and authoritarian rule"--

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Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography