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Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State

By Kerry Brown

Book information

Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Year
2011
ISBN
9781350218598, 9781848138209
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1819933 bytes)
Pages
\188
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 23:04:53

Description

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections 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 of the most deprived areas of China.

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