MCLC: sources on local governance (1)

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: H. Christoph Steinhardt <hcsteinhardt at gmail.com>
Subject: sources on local governance (1)
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These are not on Miao regions, but provide a starter on village and local
people's congress elections in China. Hope this helps.

Christoph

Cho, Young Nam. 2008. Local People’s Congresses in China: Development and
Transition. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

He, Junzhi. 2010. “Independent Candidates in China’s Local People’s
Congresses: a typology.” Journal of Contemporary China 19 (64): 311-333.

Landry, Pierre F., Deborah Davis, and Shiru Wang. 2010. “Elections in Rural
China: Competition Without Parties.” Comparative Political Studies 43 (6)
(March 8): 763–790. doi:10.1177/0010414009359392.

Li, Lianjiang. 2002. “Elections and Popular Resistance in Rural China.”
China Information XVI (1): 89-107.

Li, Lianjiang. 2003. “The Empowering Effects of Village Elections in
China.”
Asian Survey XLIII (4): 648-662.

Li, Lianjiang. 2002. “The Politics of Introducing Direct Township Elections
in China.” The China Quarterly 171: 704–723. doi:10.1017/S0009443902000438.

Manion, Melanie. 2008. “When Communist Party Candidates Can Lose, Who Wins?
Assessing the Role of Local People’s Congresses in the Selection of Leaders
in China.” The China Quarterly 195: 607-630.

O’Brien, Kevin J., and Rongbin Han. 2009. “Path to Democracy? Assessing
village elections in China.” Journal of Contemporary China 18 (60):
359-378.

O’Brien, Kevin J., and Lianjiang Li. 2000. “Accommodating ‘Democracy’ in a
One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China.” The China
Quarterly (162): 465–489.

Schubert, Gunter, and Xuelian Chen. 2007. “Village Elections in
Contemporary
China: New Spaces for Generating Regime Legitimacy? Experiences from Lishu
Country.” China Perspectives (3): 12–27.

Shi, Tianjian. 1999. “Village Committee Elections in China:
Institutionalist
Tactics for Democracy.” World Politics 51 (3): 385–412.

Tsai, Lily. 2010. “Governing One Million Rural Communities: Are China’s
Village Elections Improving?” In Growing Pains: Tensions and Opportunity in
China’s Transformation, edited by Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle, and Xueguang
Zhou, 117–142. Stanford: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research
Center;
Brookings Institution [distributor].