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01-03-2015 | Book Review

Gunter Schubert and Anna L. Ahlers, Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots: Chinese Village Elections in Perspective

(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 242p. $85 hardback; $84.99 eBook

Author: Xinsong Wang

Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science | Issue 1/2015

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The study of Chinese village elections has gone through various stages in the past two decades or so, but one issue that scholars have been grappling with is what these elections really mean to Chinese political development. For example, the question of whether village elections would create momentum or motivation for both the center and the citizens to push democratic elections one level above in towns/townships, has been resolved. In recent years, scholars have paid more attention to the contribution of village elections to the changing state-society relations and local political dynamics by looking at the issues of political values and trust, contentious politics, post-election administration, and so forth. …

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Title: Gunter Schubert and Anna L. Ahlers, Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots: Chinese Village Elections in Perspective
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 242p. $85 hardback; $84.99 eBook
Author: Xinsong Wang
Publication date: 01-03-2015
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1080-6954
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6357
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-015-9333-7

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