The financial burden imposed upon the Chinese farmer by local taxes has become a major source of discontent in the Chinese countryside and a worrisome source of

This book provides the first, in-depth English study of the tax burden problems farmers face in China.

This book develops an informational theory to account for the coexistence of China’s exceptionally resilient authoritarianism and its high decentralization. T

Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying