IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rcejxx/v11y2018i3p259-283.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

China’s rural institutions and governance since the beginning of the rural reform

Author

Listed:
  • Liu Shouying
  • Xiong Xuefeng

Abstract

This paper looks at how China governs its vast rural territories. The structure of rural governance relies not only on the extent and form of the state’s authority, but also on the principal–agent relationship between the state and local stakeholders, as well as the role of the informal institutional arrangements that serve as the foundation for rural governance. China’s 40 years of reform and opening have led to the transformation of rural China into urban and rural China. The rules and order of informal institutions have evolved and changed significantly, and the cost-benefit structure of formal state governance has been amended. The appropriate rural governance system for village transformation improves the performance of the country’s direct governance and the entrustment–agent system for village governance. Further, the rural governance system balances formal and informal institutions to achieve an effective institutional arrangement.

Suggested Citation

  • Liu Shouying & Xiong Xuefeng, 2018. "China’s rural institutions and governance since the beginning of the rural reform," China Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 259-283, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcejxx:v:11:y:2018:i:3:p:259-283
    DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2018.1512541
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17538963.2018.1512541
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17538963.2018.1512541?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rcejxx:v:11:y:2018:i:3:p:259-283. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rcej .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.