Village elections, public goods investments and pork barrel politics, chinese-style

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 662-684

  Luo, Renfu ^a   Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Huang, Jikun ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DATA SET; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMETRICS; ELECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC GOODS; SERVICE PROVISION; VILLAGE;

CHINA;

EID: 77952519910     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380903318061     Document Type: Article

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