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This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization. It explains how three key factors - township, economy and kinship - shape vil

Unlike the election models in other Asian countries, rural elections in China were created from the grassroots level by farmers before they were officially and

Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in