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A Mixed Bag of Results: Village Elections in Contemporary China
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- While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development and bought great impact not only on different rural political institutions, but also on common mass villagers, as well as changes to the local governance.While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development and bought great impact not only on different rural political institutions, but also on common mass villagers, as well as changes to the local governance. But at the same time, the limitations of the factual effectiveness of these elections can hardly be underestimated and such aspects as the standardization of electoral procedures are still to be further improved. Moreover, given the wide variations across Chinese countryside and the strong oppositions from all levels, the future of China’s village elections remain hard to gauge.…
Autor(en): | Hang Lin |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-68684 |
Dokumentart: | Artikel / Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift |
Institute der Universität: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens |
Graduate Schools / Graduate School of the Humanities | |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
Originalveröffentlichung / Quelle: | Asian Culture and History (2011) 3:1, 14-22 |
Allgemeine fachliche Zuordnung (DDC-Klassifikation): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Normierte Schlagworte (GND): | China; Politik |
Freie Schlagwort(e): | Chinese politics; Local governance; Rural politics; Village election |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 23.05.2013 |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |