标题: [china:] Duke China Forum Invites You to a Talk “Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China” (Oct 3)

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 Center
Duke West Campus
http://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 China
This 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.

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