Over the past 30 years, the Chinese policy of village self-governance has promoted a
system of democratically elected autonomous committees to wield authority at the village …

Village self-governance in China, of which election of the village committee members is the
most salient feature, has attracted much attention in the recent decade. Originally …

Initiated after the implementation of the Reform and Opening-Up Policy, autonomous village
rule is a relatively new phenomenon in China. Beginning in the late 1970s, early rural …

This article explores the changes in village self‐governance in the reform period. It reflects
upon the potential of village self‐governance to contribute towards a broader …

Some theories of deliberative democracy go beyond representative democracy's focus on
electoral participation to advocate for the inclusion of popular deliberation in processes of …

Since 1988, China has gradually implemented a village self-governance system, which has
recently started to attract attention among students of the social, political, and economic …

There is no obvious and direct correlation between the provincial level of economic
development and democratic level of village elections. There is a great disparity in the level …

This paper is based on a field trip to Hunan Province in 1996, as part of a research project I
am undertaking on how the introduction of village self‐government and direct elections at …

The Chinese government points to village elections as proof of its support for grassroots
democracy and political reform. Yet despite a decade of village democracy, questions …

This research report examined the implementation of villager self-governance in China, of
which the election of village leader is the most distinct feature. Unlike previous studies of …