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  title info:
    title: Community, leadership, and mass-elite relations
    sub title: an investigation into political leadership in the Chinese villages in the reform era
  name:
    name part: Shan, Wei.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Harmel, Robert
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: What is the role of political leadership in the mechanisms that bind general masses and political elites behind a certain policy program? And what factors account for the changes in political leadership? The mechanisms connecting citizens and elites are crucial for regime stability. The malfunction of such mechanisms, for instance, the absence of citizen-elite agreement on policy issues, or low levels of public trust in elites, undermines political support and legitimacy of the existing regime. Focusing on rural communities in China, this dissertation attempts to examine how leader-follower relations in the grassroots communities influence mass-elite interactions, and how the community contextual factors shape those leader-follower relations. Existing studies tend to focus on the patron-client connections between peasant villagers and local officials, but largely to the neglect of other kinds of social relations. Based on fieldwork interviews and panel survey data from China, I show that informal social relations, like leadership, have a significant impact on mass-elite opinion connections and public trust in local elites. By leadership or leadership relations, I refer to the mutuality of leader-follower connection that is based on either authoritative or non-authoritative, but largely non-coercive influence by both sides. An element of non-authoritative quality that binds a group of people (i.e. followers) behind a leader is especially important. For this reason, leadership tends to be significant in a local community setting, such as in a village, that is thick with interpersonal relations. My study finds how formal elections and leadership relations in local communities co-determine the direction of opinion influence between the local elite and ordinary citizens, and how leadership facilitates citizens⁰́₉ belief that their local leaders are trustworthy. Further, my analysis shows that as market activities and state control penetrate into village communities, lead…
  note: by Wei Shan.
  note: "Major Subject: Political Science"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2586
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major political science
  subject:
    topic: Chinese politics
  subject:
    topic: mass-elite relations
  subject:
    topic: leadership
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2586
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100423
    record change date: 20151201120051.0
    record identifier: in00002588975