The Heterodoxy of Governance under Decentralisation
Rent-Seeking Politics in China's Tobacco Growing Areas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3986267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yi-Wen Cheng (Leiden University), Tak-Wing Ngo, Tak‐wing Ngo (University of Macau) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-240 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2013.874846 |
| OpenAlex | W1976474963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper questions the categorisation of good/bad governance and argues that such a stylised conception fails to capture the ambivalence of responsibilities and accountabilities in a political system characterised by multiple layers of authorities. Using a case study of the tobacco monopoly in China, the paper shows the contradictory goals and outcomes in different modes of operation that defy a stylised categorisation. A vigorously enforced regulatory regime with a higher level of transparency and bureaucratic accountability raised the national revenue and put tobacco production in accordance with the national plan. Yet it has severely impaired the welfare and livelihood of tobacco peasants. Conversely, a regulatory regime captured by parochial interests and sabotaged by rent-seeking politics rendered bureaucratic authority arbitrary and opaque, and at the expense of the state plan and national interests. Nonetheless it protected the welfare of peasants, improved local production and helped develop the local economy. The paper argues that the pathways to good governance are not only multi-linear, but also heterodox and unpredictable
Accountability · Bureaucracy · Centralized government · Corporate governance · Decentralization · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rent-seeking · Welfare · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |