TY - JOUR
T1 - Support for anti-corruption campaigns in rural China
AU - LI, Lianjiang
N1 - Lianjiang Li is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. For generous financial support, he would like to thank the Asia Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. For helpful comments on earlier drafts, he thanks Thomas Bernstein, Bruce Dickson, Melanie Manion, Kevin O’Brien, Michael Schoenhals, Tianjian Shi, Herbert Yee, and two anonymous referees. He would also like to thank Nancy Hearst for her excellent editorial assistance.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Based on data collected in a survey conducted in six Chinese provinces at the end of 1997 and early 1998, this article offers a preliminary analysis of why some peasants wished to see Mao-style anti-corruption campaigns. It shows that the support for campaigns is negatively correlated with the respondents' evaluation of local officials' performance in governing by law, their confidence in the equality before the law, and their assessment of the effectiveness of lawful participation. It concludes that popular support for mass mobilization could contribute to rural instability as Chinese farmers become increasingly impatient with the regime's failure to control corruption.
AB - Based on data collected in a survey conducted in six Chinese provinces at the end of 1997 and early 1998, this article offers a preliminary analysis of why some peasants wished to see Mao-style anti-corruption campaigns. It shows that the support for campaigns is negatively correlated with the respondents' evaluation of local officials' performance in governing by law, their confidence in the equality before the law, and their assessment of the effectiveness of lawful participation. It concludes that popular support for mass mobilization could contribute to rural instability as Chinese farmers become increasingly impatient with the regime's failure to control corruption.
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U2 - 10.1080/10670560120075019
DO - 10.1080/10670560120075019
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
AN - SCOPUS:0035161099
SN - 1067-0564
VL - 10
SP - 573
EP - 586
JO - Journal of Contemporary China
JF - Journal of Contemporary China
IS - 29
ER -