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How does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms? This book analyzes this puzzle by offering a systematic analysis of the central-local governmental relationship in rural China, focusing on rural taxation and political participation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese local officials and villagers, and combining them with game-theoretic analyses, it argues that the central government uses local governments as a target of blame for the problems that the central government has actually created. The most recent rural tax reforms, which began in 2000, were a conscious trade-off between fiscal crises and rural instability. For the central government, local fiscal crises and the lack of public goods in agricultural areas were less serious concerns than the heavy financial burdens imposed on farmers and the rural unrest that the predatory extractive behavior of local governments had generated in the 1990s, which threatened both economic reforms and authoritarian rule.

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Rural population --- -Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Hallands lan (Sweden) --- -Population, Rural --- -Hallands lan (Sweden) --- Hallands län (Sweden) --- Rural conditions. --- Agricultural population --- Hallands län (Sweden) --- Halland, Sweden (Province) --- Halland (Sweden : Län) --- Halland County (Sweden)

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In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world. Much has been written by social scientists about the actors and structures underpinning these transformations and the effects on particular social groups, organizations and industries. Yet, to date much less attention has been given to the specific global processes that are fundamental to contemporary rural change. Rural Change and Global Processes provides a systematic analysis of the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges they raise as well as opportunities created. The book will be of particular relevance to researchers, graduate students, and policy-makers interested in the implications of global processes for rural people and livelihoods.

Sociology, Rural. --- Rural sociology --- Sociology --- Globalization --- Rural population. --- Social Science --- Rural communities. --- Economic aspects. --- Rural. --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural