 Elizabeth
J. Remick, The Significance of Variation in Local States: The Case of
Twentieth Century China Variations
in local state structure and practice have been neglected by political
scientists, but they can cause uneven implementation of central policy and
variation in state-society relations that can affect the power and
sometimes even survival of the central state. Regardless of regime type,
local state variation is shaped by superordinate levels of the state,
local social contexts, and local officials'
preferences and ideologies. Two regions in Republican and post-Mao China
illustrate the causes of local state variation and demonstrate how the
differences in local state structure and practice affected state-society
relations, policy implementation, and state capacity in public finance and
taxation. |