Giving the people a voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
He, Baogang and Thøgersen, Stig 2010, Giving the people a voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China, Journal of contemporary China, vol. 19, no. 66, pp. 675-692.
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Giving the people a voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These practices stabilize and strengthen authoritarian rule, leading to deliberative authoritarianism, an advanced form of consultative authoritarianism. This paper discusses two experiments—deliberative polling at Zeguo, Zhejiang, and a township election in Ya'an, Sichuan. Through these two cases we examine the direction which the development of consultative authoritarianism is presently taking, and the potentials and limitations of such input mechanisms in an authoritarian setting.
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eng
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160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
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940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified