Beschreibung:
By Zaijun Yuan
The scope of the book is political science and China studies with a focus on China's local politics. Based on analyzing the data and facts from various sources, the book answers such key questions in China studies as whether China will be democratized in the near future and whether China's political system will continue into the future.
Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: "Direct Elections" for Township Executives Chapter 3: "Inner-Party Democracy" and the Experiments of Direct Elections for Township Party Secretaries Chapter 4: Another Form of "Inner-Party Democracy": The Party Congress Reform Chapter 5: The Experiments with "Deliberative Democracy" Chapter 6: A Reform Instigated from the Outside of the Bureaucratic System: Independent Candidates in China's Local Congress Elections Conclusion Bibliography Index