The Impact of Antipoverty-Stricken Policies on the Operation of Rural Grassroots Democracy ─ The Case of China’s Yunnan Province
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Lin, Hong-Yu
Abstract
Since the 1980s, the rural grassroots democracy has begun to implement in China, and many scholars have put the research on this topic. Investigating the impact of economy development on the running of rural grassroots democracy has become the research approach taken by many scholars, while taking the economically developed rural areas of eastern provinces as the research target but the economically backward rural areas of western. In recent years, with the implementation of antipoverty-stricken policies in western inland provinces of China, there is rapid economy growth in western rural areas. Therefore, the author take the case of Yunnan province that implement antipoverty-stricken policies as main rural policies as the research target, probing the impact of rural economic growth led by antipoverty-stricken policies on the operation of rural grassroots democracy.
This thesis based on the modernization theory and the political and economy research in rural areas of eastern provinces to make the assumption that antipoverty stricken policies improve the rural economy, and predicting that the problem of expanding clan force and the outflow of young population can be solved. Furthermore, this thesis established a number of political and economic indicators, and taking the methods of literature review and in-depth interview to prove the correctness of the assumption. In addition, by comparing the rural development between Yunnan, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang summarize the characteristic of rural grassroots democracy in China.
The research results show that is a big gap between formulation and implementation of the Yunnan’s antipoverty-stricken policies, but the implementation of antipoverty policies actually improve the rural economy. Hence, the distribution of economic interest increases the villagers’ participation in villagers committee and public affairs, thereby improving the problem of outflow of young people. There is no problem of expanding clan force in Yunnan. On the other side, good relation among villagers committee, township government and communist party or not may also affect the development of rural economy.
Subjects
Economy Development
Rural Grassroots Democracy
Antipoverty-Stricken Policies
Modernization Theory
Villagers Committee
Type
thesis
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