Township Politics

Township Politics
Author: Mzwanele Mayekiso
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0853459657

A collection of unabridged articles on accounting theory from the British quarterly journal, Accounting Research, published between 1948 and 1958. Topics include the classification of assets; theory of foreign branch accounts; cost and cost accounting; the economic and accounting concepts of profit; revenue and revenue accounts; costing terminology; and the formal principles of public company accounting. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa

Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa
Author: Mzwanele Mayekiso
Publisher: UJ Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 177642428X

This insider’s account of an extraordinary period of national political transition is also a primer on a new radical philosophy, the street–smart Marxism that developed in South Africa’s sprawling townships between 1985 and 1995 and rendered them ungovernable for the apartheid state. Mzwanele Mayekiso, a young leader of the “civics”—as South Africa’s popular community organizations are called—spent almost three years in prison as a result of the civics’ militant organizing. Here, he interlaces his personal story with caustic assessments of apartheid’s hand–picked township leaders, with rebuttals of armchair academics, and with impassioned but self–critical analyses of the civics’ struggles and tactics. He ends with a vision of an international urban social movement that, he argues, must be a crucial component of any emancipatory project.

Township Government

Township Government
Author: Township Officials of Cook County
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1999
Genre: Local government
ISBN:

Local Government and Politics in China

Local Government and Politics in China
Author: Yang Zhong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131746589X

After over a decade of administrative and economic reform in mainland China, the center has become increasingly remote and less important for many localities. In many ways, the mobilization capacity of the central government has been weakened. Central government policies are often ignored and local officials are often more interested in personal projects than in centrally directed economic plans. In this study of local government and politics in China, the author explores when and why local government officials comply with policy directives from above. Drawing on interviews with government officials in various municipalities and a review of county records and other government documents, he provides the first in-depth look at policy implementation at the county and township levels in the PRC. The book examines the impact of the Chinese cadre system on the behavior of local officials, local party and government structure, relationships among various levels of Chinese local government, policy supervision mechanisms at local levels, village governance of China, and more.

Rural Politics in Contemporary China

Rural Politics in Contemporary China
Author: Emily T. Yeh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317661753

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China into conversation with the traditions and concerns of peasant studies scholarship. It provides both an introduction to those unfamiliar with Chinese politics, as well as in-depth, new research for experts in the field. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Quietly at Work

Quietly at Work
Author: Monica Dwyer Abress
Publisher: Specialty Press (MN)
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The book defines township by origin, size and establishing. Chain of command is explained. Also does comparisons between states.

The Politics of Peasants

The Politics of Peasants
Author: Shukai Zhao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811043418

This book is an analysis and exploration of the relationship between peasants and policies within the process of reform in China. After examining the long term rural policies, either before or after the reform, it was found that all these polices have been expected to promote peasants’ interests and claimed to take enhancing peasants’ happiness as their goal. Nonetheless, the history and current reality of rural development have demonstrated that the same policy starting point had lead to very different policy designs. Even today, quite a few institutional arrangements with good intentions have ended up with opposite results and have even become bad policies that do harm to people. This book argues that the reason for such serious deviation, between political intentions and institutional arrangements, as well as between policy goals and its results is: as a political force, the peasantry itself has not effectively engaged with the political process of the country.