Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman
Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces / Richard Levy
The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China / John James Kennedy
Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences / Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai
Direct township elections / Lianjiang Li
The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China / Lily L. Tsai
Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read
Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights / Yongshun Cai
"Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC / Mary E. Gallagher
Is labor a political force in China? / Ching Kwan Lee
Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China / Xi Chen
In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan / Ralph Litzinger
Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials / Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan.