Explanation of the process of casting votes in the villagers' committee election, early 1990s
March 28: Participation, Legitimacy, and (Socialist) Democracy
Explanation of the process of casting votes in the villagers' committee election, early 1990s
Blecher, ch. 7 ("Politics")
Chapters by Shue (Legitimacy), Wright (China Democracy Party), and Gries (Nationalism), in Gries and Rosen.
Merle Goldman, "Introduction," From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China (2006,), pp. 1-16 (top). LINK [Note: The link leads to excerpts from the Introduction and Chapter 1: print out only through page 16.]
Thomas P. Bernstein,"Village Democracy and Its Limits," AISEN 99: (April 2006), 29-41. LINK
"Buildingof Political Democracy in China," Information Office of the StateCouncil of the People's Republic of China, October 2005. LINK [Note: Read the Preface, Chapter I, and Conclusion]
And one of the following:
Zhang Ye, "China's Emerging Civil Society," CNAPS Working Paper, Brookings Instiution, August 2003. LINK
SusanneBrandtstädter, Gunter Schubert, "Democratic Thought and Practice inRural China," Democratization, Volume 12, Number 5/December 2005,801-819. IN "OTHER READINGS" FOLDER
JudeHowell, "Women's Political Participation in China: in whose interestselections?", Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 15, Number49/November 2006, 603-619. LINK
Jude Howell, "Women's Political Participation in China: Struggling to Hold Up Half the Sky,"Parliamentary Affairs 2002 55: 43-56. LINK
TianjianShi, "Cultural Values and Democracy in the People's Republic of China,"China Quarterly, No. 162 (June 2000), pp. 540-559 (ER)
Brantly Womack "Democary and the Governing: A TheoreticalPerspective," Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 10, no. 1,April 2005, 23-43. IN "OTHER READINGS" FOLDER
Stephen C. Angle, "Decent Democratic Centralism," Political Theory 2005 2005; 33; 518-546. IN "OTHER READINGS" FOLDER [Note: This is a political theory/political philosophy article that looks a the possibilility of a reformedsystem of democratic centralism, which is what the Chinese says is partof the socialist democracy that they are currently "building," could besuperior to liberal democracy as a form of government.]