Following the Money: Corruption, Conflict, and the Winners and Losers of Suburban Land Acquisition in China

doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12158

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	Following the Money: Corruption, Conflict, and the Winners and Losers of Suburban Land Acquisition in China
	Song, Yanan 1; Wang, Mark Yaolin 2; Lei, Xiaoting 1
刊名	GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
	2016-02
卷号	54 期号:1 页码:86-102
关键词	land acquisition money flow corruption conflict suburban area China
ISSN号	1745-5863
DOI	10.1111/1745-5871.12158
英文摘要	Land acquisition in suburban China is not merely the administrative means through which land is transferred from collectively owned rural land to state-owned urban land; it is also a process of unlawful profit grabbing by rent-seeking stakeholders. This licentiousness has been the source of intense controversy in recent years, becoming a major source of social unrest in contemporary China. Although standards of compensation are legally governed by strict policies, these standards are rarely followed as prescribed. As a result, we know very little about how revenue from land acquisition is shared in practice. This is because, as a contentious political issue rife with corrupt practices, accurate data are extremely difficult to obtain. This paper aims to address this vast empirical gap by tracing the flow of profit proliferation and distribution in a land acquisition case, using a suburban village in Shandong province, China, as an example. To expedite the drawn-out acquisition process, the local government permits the corrupt behaviour of the village party secretary, who exploits his position to amass a great personal fortune. In contrast to previous research, which emphasises low compensation standards or excessive profit grabbing by local government, we find that villagers' protests are triggered by the corrupt practices of the village party secretary.
WOS研究方向	Geography
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000369980700006
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/1364]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Wang, Mark Yaolin
作者单位	1.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Finance & Econ, 777 Guoding Rd, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Melbourne, Sch Geog, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, Vic 3010, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Song, Yanan,Wang, Mark Yaolin,Lei, Xiaoting. Following the Money: Corruption, Conflict, and the Winners and Losers of Suburban Land Acquisition in China[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH,2016,54(1):86-102.
APA	Song, Yanan,Wang, Mark Yaolin,&Lei, Xiaoting.(2016).Following the Money: Corruption, Conflict, and the Winners and Losers of Suburban Land Acquisition in China.GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH,54(1),86-102.
MLA	Song, Yanan,et al."Following the Money: Corruption, Conflict, and the Winners and Losers of Suburban Land Acquisition in China".GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH 54.1(2016):86-102.