 Strategies for Agricultural Cooperation in Contemporary ChinaQiao Li, Jianhua Wang and Patrick H. Mooney Journal of Rural Cooperation, 2013, vol. 41, issue 01, 18 Abstract: A movement is emerging in rural China for a new type of cooperation that is more oriented toward democratic participation. Analytically distinguishing these cooperatives is important for the evluation of their success as economic enterprises and their role in building a more democratic China. We identify them as community-based cooperatives, as opposed to other types of cooperatives that tend to be grounded in private (“dragon head”) enterprises or Party/State programs. The absence of reliable, consistent data at the national level makes comparative analysis difficult across this diverse nation. Hence, most of the work on Chinese cooperatives tends to be provincial-level case studies. We propose a set of criteria to guide these case studies toward comparative analysis in several dimensions: specialization, organizational structure, substance, geographic scope, the role of elites, and farmer/member differentiation. We briefly examine data in a case study of Shaanxi Province in terms of these variables. Keywords: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:jlorco:249613 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Rural Cooperation from Hebrew University, Center for Agricultural Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC. |
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