Supply and Support for Grassroots Political Reform in Rural China

Kennedy, John James

doi:10.1007/s11366-010-9096-0

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“…In post-authoritarian regimes, the performance of institutions is vital “inasmuch as citizens can assess it by comparison with a predecessor regime” (Rose and Mishler, 2011: 120). Citizens are likely to value political institutions that perform consistently and hence will be perceived as trustworthy (Kennedy, 2010; Rose and Mishler, 2011).…”

Section: Measuring Institutional Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authoritarian values and institutional trust: Theoretical considerations and evidence from the Philippines

Pernia

2021

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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Studies on authoritarian values, which have mostly focused on authoritarian regimes and on democracies with spells of authoritarianism, suggest trust in public institutions. However, limited empirical evidence has been carried out in the Philippines where cycles of regime change and authoritarian leadership have characterized its post-authoritarian landscape. Examining multiple public opinion data from the Asian Barometer Survey, this study found that regardless of the political leadership across different regimes, Filipino citizens expressed attitudinal dispositions, i.e. conforming, anti-political pluralism, and support for strong leaders, that constitute authoritarian political values. But instead of a destabilizing effect, estimates from ordinary least squares indicate that Filipino citizens’ authoritarian tendencies enhance institutional trust—seen as an indicator of support for the political system. The findings of this study empirically challenge the view of democratization in the Philippines by foregrounding its ‘populist-authoritarian’ dimension. In addition, they provide evidence of a growing scholarship in comparative political studies that claims that courting confidence for political institutions and regime support does not necessitate a ‘liberal-democratic’ model.

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Section: Measuring Institutional Trustmentioning

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Authoritarian values and institutional trust: Theoretical considerations and evidence from the Philippines

Pernia

2021

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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“…In an authoritarian state like China, opening up elections in rural areas are likely to be regarded as a "gift" from the central government, which in return wins ruling legitimacy for the CCP. For instance, Kennedy suggests that the CCP offers political rights to vote as a bargain for social stability [30]. Similarly, Wilking and Zhang also argue that the Chinese government offers political rights to impoverished regions as compensation to their economic dissatisfaction [31].…”

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Sustainable Rural Governance: How Rural Elections in China Lead to Long-Term Social Stability?

Wen

2019

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Government inspections are a typical approach that the Chinese government adopts in executing its policy agenda and propagating its ideological ideals. However, top-down administrative imperatives as such tend to be consuming in resources and less effective in actual governance. They are not necessarily the most sustainable means to ensure efficient governance in the long term. Bottom-up self-governance in rural China, on the other hand, provides the essential mechanism for sustainable governance. In this paper we study one of these bottom-up self-governance approaches in China—rural elections. We propose that, via three distinctive mechanisms, rural elections in China serve as a stabilizer for the entire state and fill the loopholes that top-down government inspections potentially allow. Specifically, we argue that individuals with electoral experiences are less likely to engage in protests, or other forms of collective actions, than those without. This effect holds in that, first, elections improve public goods provision in rural China; second, voters’ personal experience in elections changes their perception of the Chinese regime from being authoritarian to being benevolent and caring; third, elections expose the Chinese regime to emerging social dissent in a timely fashion that allows for self-correction. This theoretical prescription receives strong empirical, statistical analysis using the latest Asian Barometer Survey (ABS 2014) dataset.

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“…When promoting the non-agricultural employment of rural labor, the high cost "bottleneck" of agricultural production cost caused by imperfect transportation facilities is resolved. In order to ensure increased investments in transportation infrastructures, the government departments could increase the budgetary funds, and appropriately guide private capital [20].…”

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Rural Road Improvement and Farmland Circulation: The Production Cost Perspective

Wu¹

2018

AJIBM

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This paper comprehensively investigates the impact of rural road infrastructure improvement on farmland transfer from the perspective of agricultural production costs. Based on a theoretical analysis framework, this paper builds a theoretical model of supply and demand for the village farmland transfer and discusses the trend of the equilibrium point between supply and demand before and after the improvement of rural road infrastructures. This is taken as the starting point for the theoretical analysis to discuss the impact of the improvement of rural road infrastructures on village farmland transfer. According to the analysis, the corresponding research hypothesis is proposed. Moreover, by employing 2018 survey data on a village in the Anhui Province, the research conclusions are obtained. Specifically, the Tobit regression model analysis highlights that the increase in rural road infrastructures does have a significant impact on agricultural land transfer.

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Supply and Support for Grassroots Political Reform in Rural China

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Authoritarian values and institutional trust: Theoretical considerations and evidence from the Philippines

Authoritarian values and institutional trust: Theoretical considerations and evidence from the Philippines

Sustainable Rural Governance: How Rural Elections in China Lead to Long-Term Social Stability?

Rural Road Improvement and Farmland Circulation: The Production Cost Perspective

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