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标题：Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China
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作者：Shuna Wang ; Shuna Wang ; Yao Yang 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：5
页码：7164-7180
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.05.069
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThis 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. Those 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 it is found that the role of a more competitive election is different from that of a closed election.
关键词：grassroots democracy;local governance;village elections;Asia;China