Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by
Dr. Jie Lu,
Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China"
The Multicultural Center Lounge, Bryan CenterDuke West Campushttp://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 3, 2008, Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.
Bio:Jie Lu is a graduate student of political science at Duke University studying comparative politics -- more specifically, the political economy of institutional change, local governance, political opinion and behavior in non- and new-democracies. He is also interested in the application of statistical modeling and survey methods in political analysis. Before coming to the US for graduate studies, Jie Lu got a master's degree in IR and a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at Tsinghua University of China.
Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural ChinaThis project investigates the varied institutional foundations of local governance in rural China with central emphasis on the role of communal structures and rural-urban migration. Instead of treating indigenously developed institutions (IDIs) and externally imposed institutions (EIIs) as competing variables as in most other contemporary research on local governance, I develop a theoretical framework exploring the interaction between the two types of institutions in sustaining local governance as well as analyzing how communal structural features shape this interaction and influence their respective effectiveness in ensuring local governance. With the help of a nationally representative survey, a local non-representative survey, and carefully selected case studies, I document how IDIs and EIIs sustain local governance in rural China respectively, scrutinize the impact of transformed communal structure (driven by rural-urban migration) on the operation and performance of IDIs and EIIs, and explain the existence of varying institutional foundations of local governance in rural China.
Dr. Jie Lu,
Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China"
The Multicultural Center Lounge, Bryan CenterDuke West Campushttp://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 3, 2008, Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.
Bio:Jie Lu is a graduate student of political science at Duke University studying comparative politics -- more specifically, the political economy of institutional change, local governance, political opinion and behavior in non- and new-democracies. He is also interested in the application of statistical modeling and survey methods in political analysis. Before coming to the US for graduate studies, Jie Lu got a master's degree in IR and a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at Tsinghua University of China.
Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural ChinaThis project investigates the varied institutional foundations of local governance in rural China with central emphasis on the role of communal structures and rural-urban migration. Instead of treating indigenously developed institutions (IDIs) and externally imposed institutions (EIIs) as competing variables as in most other contemporary research on local governance, I develop a theoretical framework exploring the interaction between the two types of institutions in sustaining local governance as well as analyzing how communal structural features shape this interaction and influence their respective effectiveness in ensuring local governance. With the help of a nationally representative survey, a local non-representative survey, and carefully selected case studies, I document how IDIs and EIIs sustain local governance in rural China respectively, scrutinize the impact of transformed communal structure (driven by rural-urban migration) on the operation and performance of IDIs and EIIs, and explain the existence of varying institutional foundations of local governance in rural China.
