Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-72

  Dimitrov, Martin K ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Communist autocracies; Corruption; Information gathering; Petitions; Policy implementation; Protests; Quality of governance; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940004356     PISSN: 00393606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12116-014-9170-2     Document Type: Article

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