Tsai, Lily L.,  1975- <br/><br/>
Accountability without democracy :  solidary groups and public goods provision in rural China / 
Lily L. Tsai 
 - New York, NY :  Cambridge University Press,  c2007 
 - xvi, 347 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in comparative politics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index 
<br/><br/>Governance and informal institutions of accountability -- Decentralization and local governmental performance -- Local governmental performance : assessing village public goods provision -- Informal accountability and the structure of solidary groups -- Temples and churches in rural China -- Lineages and local governance -- Accountability and village democratic reforms -- The limitations of formal party and bureaucratic institutions 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521871976 (hardback) 9780521692809 (pbk.)  RM315.02 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Municipal services--China<br/>Social institutions--China
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Rural conditions