Representation without Taxation:Political Changes in Chinese Authoritarian Regimes
It still remains largely unsolved that some authoritarian regimes choose to incorporate institutions of democracy such as village election into its governing.Besides, the determinants why there is variation in launching local democracy in a certain authoritarian regime across time are still unconclnded.As a typical case of resilient authoritarian state which implements democracy in its villages, China provides an invaluable case for researchers to study.The current theories focus on the influence of political elites and rural forces separately.Insightful as they are, they are invalid in explaining the variation of local governance in China across time and thus beeome incomplete.It should be recognized that central fiscal strategies have great effects on local governance.Specifically, if the central government largely relies upon rural taxation, it has to expand its bureaucracy to the countryside to extract revenue.If on the other way, the central government will establish local democracy in the countryside.This hypothesis is historically reflected in the authoritarian regimes led by Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China.Opposed to the familiar story about representation through taxation, the logic of representation without taxation seems to be the truth in the case of China.
Authoritarian Regime Village Democracy Fiscal Strategy China
YE Jing
University of International Business and Economics
国际会议
The 1st Chinese Conference on Comparative Political Economy (第一届比较政治经济学国际学术会议)
北京
英文
154-167
2013-09-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）