When will the street lamps enter China’s villages? case study in Majia village

Yang, Yong-Zhong and Lin, Ming-Hua (2011): When will the street lamps enter China’s villages? case study in Majia village.

Abstract

Based on the angle of institution, this paper takes internal institutions and external institutions as the analysis framework. When study the case of the street lamps supply in Majia Village, the paper finds internal institutions will have an important impact on the multi-protagonists supply mode option of rural public goods. As a result, external institutions has certain mandatory, but if lack of internal institutions support, it can’t be put in practice effectively. On this basis, the paper, at the level of regional economic development, further analyzes the desirability that current multi-protagonists supply public goods. It presents a concept that is ‘dual quasi-public goods’. With reference to multi-dimensional trigger, centrobaric trigger and coordinated trigger, the paper conducts a discussion about the trigger mode of the multi-protagonists supply of the public goods.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: rural public goods; multi-protagonists supply; internal institutions and external institutions; trigger mode
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H41 - Public Goods

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