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Rising central spending on public security and the dilemma facing grassroots officials in China
Die Steigerung der Ausgaben für öffentliche Sicherheit und die Dilemmata der bodenständigen Institutionen in China
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Abstract In response to worsening social instability in China, among grassroots communities
in the poorer central and western provinces in particular, the Chinese central government
has made budgetary arrangements, since 2003, to increase investment at the grassroots
level to improve the... view more
In response to worsening social instability in China, among grassroots communities
in the poorer central and western provinces in particular, the Chinese central government
has made budgetary arrangements, since 2003, to increase investment at the grassroots
level to improve the capacity of local governments to maintain social order. However,
this action by central government has created a dilemma for local cadres: how to perform
their duty to maintain social stability while also balancing a heavy fiscal burden
caused in part by the receipt of insufficient additional budgetary subsidies from
higher government. This paper is an account of and an analysis of how local cadres
in China perform their official duties when faced with this dilemma.... view less
Keywords
law and order; social stability; expenditures; political stability; domestic security; financial reform; China
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
stability preservation; weiwen; public security
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 79-109
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42 (2013) 2
Issue topic
Preserving stability: process, dimensions and ideological exercise
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works