Differentiated Actors: Central—Local Politics in China's Rural Tax Reforms.

The article presents a study which discusses the specific roles of central and local officers qua co-participants in reform decisions, utilizing observations acquired through archival research and interviews on the shifting designs of China's rural tax-for-free reform. It is a national reform to address the intriguing question of excessive state extraction and state to society relations in the country. This paper has identified and analyzed the differentiated roles of these officers.