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Chinese Rural Bribery: The Plight of Rural Grass-Root Democratic Autonomy
Jinan University Public Management School, Guangzhou, China
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Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies·Volume 04 (2016)·Pages 337–345·Published 21 October 2016·DOI10.4236/jhrss.2016.44032
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Abstract
Rural autonomy is playing an important part in the rural grass-root democratic construction. Rural bribery is becoming one of the main barriers in new Socialist Countryside Construction, which gets the grass-root democratic autonomy in puzzledom. The paper is based on the experience of two different villages—G village in Inner Mongolia and Y village in Shanxi province, inducing and organizing the explanatory reasons and solving projects of rural bribery by researchers in recent years in doctrinal angle, discussed separately from the perspectives of institution study, economics and social capital theory. It tries to compare the advantages and disadvantages of various ways to establish a comprehensive governance framework for rural bribery.
KeywordsRural BriberyGrass-Root DemocraticThe Plight of Construction
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