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 650,000 villages in China, with over one million elections, 300,000 officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards Democracy with Chinese characteristics. But to many involved in these elections, they have been mired by corruption, vote rigging, and cronyism. This book looks at the history of these elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the specific experience of elections by those who have taken part in them -- the villagers in some…
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Weitere Autoren: French, Paul (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84813-820-9
- EAN: 9781848138209
- Produktnummer: 11044554
- Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.8 cm 253 g
- Gewicht: 253
Über den Autor
Kerry Brown is Senior Fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House, London, and Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is author of The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party (2006), Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century (2007), The Rise of the Dragon (2008) and Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China. (2009). His book China 2020 is forthcoming. He is currently working on a political biography of Hu Jintao.
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