Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman
Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces / Richard Levy
The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China / John James Kennedy
Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences / Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai
Direct township elections / Lianjiang Li
The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China / Lily L. Tsai
Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read
Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights / Yongshun Cai
"Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC / Mary E. Gallagher
Is labor a political force in China? / Ching Kwan Lee
Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China / Xi Chen
In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan / Ralph Litzinger
Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials / Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan.
Grassroots political reform in contemporary China. ISBN 9780674024861. Published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.