Primary-Level Government

Jing Zhang is Professor of Sociology at Peking University. Zhang received her BA from Sichuan University, MA from Nankai University and Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Zhang specializes in political sociology, and her representative publications include: The State and the Society (chief editor), The Institutionalization of Interests and Its Organizational Embodiment: Case Studies of Corporate Employee Delegation, Corporatism, Identification: Beliefs, Attitudes and Justifications (chief editor), China in Transition: Ideas of Social Justice (chief editor), Structural Origins of Social Conflicts, Social Organizing: Case Studies (chief editor).

• .- Chapter One  Background: The Source(s) of Rural Political Power and Authority..- Chapter Two  Role Conflict: Public Service Provision and Operational Monopoly..- Chapter Three  Village Rule and Governance: The Role of Covenants and Conventions..- Chapter Four  Rural Fiscal and Taxation Systems and their Political Implications..- Chapter Five  Personnel Changes and Organizational Support..- Chapter Six  Observations on Rural Politics..- Chapter Seven  The Personal versus the Public: The Mixed Permutation of Two Types of Relationship..- Chapter Eight  Compartmentalized Jurisdiction..- Chapter Nine  Rural Residents and the State..- Chapter Ten  Issues in Rural Governance.