Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China
By Shuna Wang, Yang Yao. 2007
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Summary This paper studies the impacts of village elections on the accountability of the village committee, local fiscal sharing, and state taxation in rural China using data of 48 villages for the period of 1986–2002. Elections are found to substantially increase the share of public expenditures in the village budget, but reduce the shares of administrative costs and income handed to the township government. These findings suggest that elections have enhanced the accountability of the village committee, but weakened local fiscal sharing and the state’s grip. No strong evidence is found that state taxation is affected by elections, nor is it found that the role of a more competitive election is different from that of a closed election.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations
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- Political Order and One-Party Rule (2010, background): “…propensities to participate and augment their expectations of government accountability (Pei 1995, Shi 1999, Li 2003, Lindberg 2006a,b, Birney 2007, Wang & Yao 2007); result in gradual institutional transformations that prepare for the eventual victory of the democratic opposition (Eisenstadt…”