Grassroots Elections in China

Herausgeber: O'Brien, Kevin; Zhao, Suisheng

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of Chinaa (TM)s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly transformed how power is exercised in the countryside? What methods are researchers employing to study elections and how have scholars from different disciplines contributed to our knowledge of grassroots politics in China? This book carefully examines the implementation and effects of Chinaa (TM)s village, township, and peoplea (TM)s congress elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations. The chapters in this book have been published across several issues of the Journal of Contemporary China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415571579
• ISBN-10: 041557157X
• Artikelnr.: 30537175

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. O'Brien is Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Suisheng Zhao is Editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, and Professor and Executive Director at the Center for China-US Cooperation, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: China's Grassroots Elections Kevin J. O'Brien Part 1:
Assessing Village Elections 2. Path to Democracy? Assessing Village
Elections in China Kevin J. O'Brien and Rongbin Han 3. How to Assess
Village Elections in China Melanie Manion 4. Studying 'Democratic'
Governance in Contemporary China: Looking at the Village is Not Enough
Gunter Schubert 5. Legitimacy with Chinese Characteristics: 'Two Increases,
One Reduction' John James Kennedy 6. Institutionalizing Village Governance
in China Bjorn Alpermann 7. Building Democratic Infrastructure: Village
Electoral Institutions Qingshan Tan Part 2: Studies of Village Elections
8. Power to the People? Villagers' Self-Rule in a North China Village from
the Locals' Point of View Zongze Hu 9. Village Elections and Governance: Do
Villagers' Care? Qingshan Tan and Xin Qiushui 10. Women's Political
Participation in China: In Whose Interest Elections? Jude Howell 11. The
Impact of Elections on the Village Structure of Power: The Relations
between Village Committees and the Party Branches Guo Zhenglin and Thomas
Bernstein Part 3: Elections and the Local Economy 12. Elections, Democratic
Values, and Economic Development in Rural China David Zweig and Chung Siu
Fung 13. Economic Development and the Implementation of Village Elections
in Rural China Rong Hu 14. Economic Development and Village Elections in
Rural China Tianjian Shi Part 4: Township and People's Congress Elections
15. Direct Township Elections in China: Latest Developments and Prospects
Dong Lisheng 16. Independent Candidates in China's Local People's
Congresses: A Typology He Junzhi