NDLI: Village Elections in China: Cooperation between the State and the Peasantry

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Author	Chen, Weixing
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	Village elections, as a policy response to developmental problems in rural China in the 1980s, were not designed to promote democracy in China. The process of village elections, however, has served as a new form of cooperation between the state and the peasantry over the last decade. To understand why an authoritarian regime introduced an electoral process to its countryside and why this electoral process of village elections has served as a new form of cooperation between the state and the peasantry over the last decade, we should try to understand where the congruence between the state and the peasantry was in this form of cooperation, what the role of the state was in this process, and what the implications of this electoral process for democracy were in China. The process of village elections might eventually have a benign result that was not originally envisioned by its sponsor, but little progress has been made in that direction over the last decade. Putting village elections in such perspective, this paper examines the economic, political and democratic dimensions of this electoral process of village elections as a new form of cooperation between the state and the peasantry.
Starting Page	63
Ending Page	81
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10806954
Journal	Journal of Chinese Political Science
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746357
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	1999-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations

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