Rural Fee Reform and the Changing Relationship between State and Peasant

• Authors: Zhou Feizhou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is exploring the Rural Fee Reform from 2002 and its effect on the relationship between state and peasant. Based on the studies in 12 townships, 6 counties, the author found that the basis of local government finance had been transformed from rural fees and taxes to inter-governmental transfers and debts. This may cause some fundamental changes in state–peasant relationship: the ties between local government and peasant are becoming loose and the state power might start to retreat from rural societies.

Keywords

EN

Rural Fee Reform; state–peasant relationship; local government finance

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 167
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 373-398

Dates

published

2009-09-29

Contributors

author

Zhou Feizhou

• Beijing University