Ballot box China : grassroots democracy in the final major one-party state /
Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood, experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. This book looks at the history of the elections, how they arose, what they have ach...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2011
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Series: | Asian arguments.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- A brief history of elections, democracy and civil society in modern China
- Democracy ... with Chinese characteristics
- The village election process
- The great debate: where is Chinese village democracy going?
- The big picture: elections as part of the dynamics of a society in change.