To browse Academia. Christian Goebel. From a vantage point of policy implementation instruments, it examines the uneven implementation of the rural tax reform that preceded the recent Construction of a Socialist New Countryside jianshe shehuizuhyi xin nongcun.
Conversely, it prompted a great number of localities to circumvent or even sabotage the reform, thereby forcing the central government to make repeated financial concessions and eventually to centralize the provision of rural public services.
By focussing more on processes than on end results, the article demonstrates how different experiences in local policy implementation can contribute to the overall development of a policy. Alexander F Day. In , the Chinese central government abolished the agricultural tax. This came after several years of intense focus on the growing rural crisis, sparking a new debate on the shape of rural society.
Putting these contemporary debates in the context of years of rural governance reforms, this paper argues that contemporary rural advocates find themselves in a situation similar to that of the first half of the twentieth century, and their reimagination of rural governance draws on the ideas of that time as well.
Twentieth Century China November , pp. Patricia M. Abstract: Local tax practices during the Republican period and the post-Mao reform era have shaped popular views of the Chinese state in particular ways.
