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Article: Village Elections, Grassroots Governance and the Restructuring of State Power: An Empirical Study in Southern Peri-urban China
Title | Village Elections, Grassroots Governance and the Restructuring of State Power: An Empirical Study in Southern Peri-urban China |
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Keywords | election public participation governance state intervention urbanization |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press for School of Oriental and African Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQY |
Citation | The China Quarterly, 2020, v. 241, p. 22-42 How to Cite? |
Abstract | China's urbanization has revitalized grassroots governance under which millions of villagers have become increasingly keen to participate in grassroots elections and influence decision making in their village affairs. To maintain its political legitimacy over a rapidly transforming society, the authoritarian party-state has progressively promoted open, competitive grassroots elections in response to the increasing demand by villagers for more public participation. Based on in-depth field research in urbanizing villages in southern China, this article provides an empirical analysis of how the local state has adopted different interventionist strategies in elections to support villagers’ active participation while sustaining its direct leadership over daily village governance. Our findings explain why the recent development of open and transparent grassroots elections is reinforcing the ruling capacity of the socialist state rather than enhancing self-governance and grassroots democracy, although villagers now have more opportunities to defend their economic and social rights through elections. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/277142 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.716 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, SW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tang, BS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-20T08:45:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-20T08:45:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The China Quarterly, 2020, v. 241, p. 22-42 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-7410 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/277142 | - |
dc.description.abstract | China's urbanization has revitalized grassroots governance under which millions of villagers have become increasingly keen to participate in grassroots elections and influence decision making in their village affairs. To maintain its political legitimacy over a rapidly transforming society, the authoritarian party-state has progressively promoted open, competitive grassroots elections in response to the increasing demand by villagers for more public participation. Based on in-depth field research in urbanizing villages in southern China, this article provides an empirical analysis of how the local state has adopted different interventionist strategies in elections to support villagers’ active participation while sustaining its direct leadership over daily village governance. Our findings explain why the recent development of open and transparent grassroots elections is reinforcing the ruling capacity of the socialist state rather than enhancing self-governance and grassroots democracy, although villagers now have more opportunities to defend their economic and social rights through elections. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press for School of Oriental and African Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQY | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The China Quarterly | - |
dc.rights | The China Quarterly. Copyright © Cambridge University Press for School of Oriental and African Studies. | - |
dc.rights | This article has been published in a revised form in [Journal] [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | - |
dc.subject | election | - |
dc.subject | public participation | - |
dc.subject | governance | - |
dc.subject | state intervention | - |
dc.subject | urbanization | - |
dc.title | Village Elections, Grassroots Governance and the Restructuring of State Power: An Empirical Study in Southern Peri-urban China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Tang, BS: bsbstang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Tang, BS=rp01646 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0305741019000808 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85082918642 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 305853 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 315660 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 241 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 22 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 42 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000524938300002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0305-7410 | - |