Implementation of State Family Planning Programmes in a Northern Chinese Village

Zhang, Weiguo

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“…6 For an illuminating early-1990s case study of such negotiations, illustrating the increasing strength of "weapons of the weak" in circumventing birth planning dictates and the ambivalent role of village-level cadres, see Zhang (1999).…”

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Policy Lessons of the East Asian Demographic Transition

McNicoll

2006

Population & Development Review

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The usual lessons drawn from East Asia's striking experience of health and fertility transition concern the efficacy of well-designed government programs catering to an existing or ideationally stimulated demand. An alternative interpretation sees the demographic change-and the uptake of services-as a byproduct of social and economic development together with, in some cases, strong government pressures. This article probes more deeply into this experience, seeking to identify common features of development design and administration that underlay it. The broad sequence entailed, initially, establishment of an effective, typically authoritarian, system of local administration, providing (sometimes incidentally) a framework for promotion and service delivery in health, education, and family planning. Subsequent economic liberalization offered new opportunities for upward mobility-and greater risks of backsliding-but along with erosion of social capital and the breakdown or privatization of service programs. The study is mainly focused on seven countries: Taiwan and South Korea ("tiger" economies), Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia ("second wave" countries), and China and Vietnam ("market-Leninist" economies). The period is roughly from the 1960s to the 1990s. Copyright 2006 The Population Council, Inc..

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Policy Lessons of the East Asian Demographic Transition

McNicoll

2006

Population & Development Review

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“…Much birth planning work in rural China has been carried out through seasonal campaigns, for example IUD inspections in spring, collecting fines in summer, third-trimester terminations for third births in autumn (Greenhalgh 1994;Zhang 1999). Increasingly, such campaigns have targeted daughteronly households, thereby reinforcing the perception that these households are particularly prone to hardship and misfortune.…”

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Fertility and Distorted Sex Ratios in a Rural Chinese County: Culture, State, and Policy

Murphy

2003

Population & Development Rev

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This article explores how gender bias in population policies interacts with local culture to reinforce distortions in sex ratios among infants and young children in rural China. It argues that population policies introduce new sources of inequality into local culture while, conversely, gender inequalities embedded in local culture influence formal population policy and practice. Applying an institutional approach to the study of an agricultural county in Jiangxi province, southeast China, the analysis identifies four ways in which an interplay between gender bias in policy and culture produces gendered fertility outcomes: (1) the creation of gendered official categories such as "daughter-only households"; (2) a male bias embedded in local government; (3) the use of local gender norms in state pedagogy; and (4) the reworking or subverting of official norms in ways that reinforce gender inequalities in local reproductive culture. The article concludes that despite indications of contestation of village patriarchy, discrimination against daughters is likely to persist. Copyright 2003 by The Population Council, Inc..

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Bureaucratic capacity and state-society relations in China

Huang

Yang

2002

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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Implementation of State Family Planning Programmes in a Northern Chinese Village

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Policy Lessons of the East Asian Demographic Transition

Policy Lessons of the East Asian Demographic Transition

Fertility and Distorted Sex Ratios in a Rural Chinese County: Culture, State, and Policy

Bureaucratic capacity and state-society relations in China

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