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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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Journal of contemporary ChinaVolume
19Issue
66Pagination
675 - 692Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Oxon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1067-0564eISSN
1469-9400Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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