Elections and Power: The Locus of Decision-Making in Chinese Villages*

By Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle. The China Quarterly, 2000

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Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China (2007, background): “Studies frequently find that people in villages of higher income with a larger collective economy are more likely to participate in village elections, presumably because stakes are high in these villages (Hu, 2005; Oi & Rozelle, 2000).”
Elections, fiscal reform and public goods provision in rural China (2007, background): “Specifically, when examining a number of papers on China’s local elections, it can be seen that there are a great number of different ways that communities have used to produce the slate of candidates (Oi, 1989; Oi et al., 2000; Chan et al., 1992; Potter and Potter, 1990; Ho, 1994; Kelliher, 1997).”
Local governance and public goods provision in rural China (2004, background): “Among the published English papers , O ' Brien and Li ( 2000 ) , Oi and Rozelle ( 2000 ) , Paster and Tan ( 2000 ) , and Xiang ( 2000 ) have described the evolution and performance of village elections in great detail .”
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China (2014, background): “The real power of village (representative) assembly is questionable, however, given its infrequent meetings and its tendency to be controlled by village cadres (Oi and Rozelle, 2000).”