Democratic participation, fiscal reform and local governance. Empirical evidence on Chinese villages.

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-97

  Meng, Xiangyi ^a   Zhang, Li ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

China; Democracy; Fiscal reform; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951676660     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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