Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State

by Kerry Brown

Book Overview

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected.

The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections have been mired by corruption, vote-rigging and cronyism.

This book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848138202
• ISBN13: 9781848138209
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"