Pesqué-Cela, Vanesa; Tao, Ran; Liu, Yongdong; Sun, Laixiang - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 37 (2009) 1, pp. 151-168
The emergence of self-governing social organizations is one of the most significant yet unexplored developments in rural China. By conducting a nationwide village-level survey, we find that these organizations are playing an important role in the provision of local public goods and services. To...