Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China Zhang Changdong
Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China Zhang Changdong Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic…
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Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China Zhang Changdong
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. Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China 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. 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.
Changdong Zhang argues that a taxation system plays an important role in sustaining authoritarian rule, in China and