Principal, Agent or Bystander? Governance and Leadership in Chinese and Russian Villages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21116136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fumiki Tahara (0000-0002-4950-4707, The University of Tokyo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-101 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Europe Asia Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-8136 • E-ISSN: 1465-3427 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09668136.2012.717367 |
| OpenAlex | W2084412208 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
What does ‘local self-governance’ mean in post-communist Russia and China? In order to answer this question, the article focuses on village-level governance in both countries by employing a four-fold typology of village leadership in public affairs. In both countries, the withdrawal of state power from local communities and the introduction of legislative ‘self-government’ has not brought autonomy to the local and community levels. The findings here suggest that the single ‘state agent’ category of village leadership that emerged under the communist regime is shifting to become one of the remaining three types, ‘principal’, ‘local agent’ and ‘bystander’. There was a growing tendency towards a non-autonomous type of ‘bystander’-style leadership in China and the ‘local agent’ type in Russia. This article suggests that the development of these local governance styles should not be attributed to a common transitional process departing from the communist past, but is the outcome of four factors that influence village leaders in two countries: administrative distance between local and village level, village social structure, fiscal arrangements and electoral relationships
China · Communism · Corporate governance · Economics · Leadership style · Legislature · Local government · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
Rural China Takes Off
Accountability without Democracy
From the Tax-for-Fee Reform to the Abolition of Agricultural Taxes
Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style
Revolution and the People in Russia and China
Village China Under Socialism and Reform
Traumatized Political Cultures
Local Elites Under Transition
Prospects for Managed Democracy in Russia
State and Peasant in Contemporary China
Machine Politics in Transition
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
Authoritarian Versus Democratic Diffusions
Chinese Village, Socialist State
Collectivization in china
BlatandGuanxi
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |