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Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China
Changdong Zhang
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Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic liberalization can lead to political instability and the collapse of authoritarian regimes. Despite experiencing all of these unprecedented changes in the past forty years, China under the Chinese Communist Party's leadership has so far successfully transformed and improved both its governance capacity and its ruling capacity. Governing and Ruling addresses this regime resilience puzzle by examining the political logic of its taxation system, especially the ways in which taxation helps China handle three governance problems: maneuvering social control, improving agent discipline, and eliciting cooperation. Changdong Zhang argues that a taxation system plays an important role in sustaining authoritarian rule, in China and elsewhere, by combining co-optation and repression functions. The book collects valuable firsthand and secondhand data; studies China's taxation system, intergovernmental fiscal relationships, composition of fiscal revenue sources, and tax administration; and discusses how each dimension influences the three governance problems.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Fiscal Sociological Theory of Regime Resilience
Chapter 2. Tax-State Transition
Chapter 3. Fiscal Decentralization, Bureaucratization, and Economic Growth
Chapter 4. Explaining Regional Variations in Governance Quality
Chapter 5. Representation through Taxation?
Chapter 6. Forbearance and Rule by Fear
Chapter 7. Conclusion and Theoretical Implications
Figure 1.3. Dilemmas and mechanisms for how taxation matters for authoritarian resilience. Solid arrows refer to alleviating the dilemma, and dashed arrows refer to worsening the dilemma.
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