Accountability without Democracy
内容简介
This book examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in rural China. In authoritarian and transitional systems, formal institutions for holding government officials accountable are often weak. The answer, Lily L. Tsai found, lies in a community's social institutions. Even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
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作者简介
Lily L.Tsai is an assistant professor of political science at MIT, she got her PhD from Department of government in Harvard University in 2005.
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目录
1. Governance and informal institutions of accountability
2. Decentralization and local governmental performance
3. Local governmental performance: assessing village public goods provision
4. Informal accountability and the structure of solidary groups
5. Temples and churches in rural China
6. Lineages and local governance
7. Accountability and village democratic reforms
8. The limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions
9. Conclusion.
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