This chapter focuses on a speech by Xi Jinping from late 2021, concerning “whole process
people's democracy”. The speech was initially delivered at a CPC Central Committee …

Since the 1990s, new views and forms of democracy have emerged. A number of countries
have redefined democracy in ways that differ from Western multiparty democracy. Political …

Abstract The concept of Whole-Process People's Democracy (WPPD) represents the latest
articulation of democracy in China in the new era, with people's democracy at its core …

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the grassroots practice of the “whole-process
people's democracy”(WPD) raised by the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping …

Where does democracy happen? How is it legitimately expressed? What is its principal
marker in the construction of democratic political institutions? The West has developed an …

I first addressed the whole Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the autumn of 2007. I stated that the …

University, with cross-appointments at Fudan and Shanghai Jiaotong, among other
institutions. He is often identified as one of the main representatives of new authoritarianism …

Chinese socialist democracy has seven components: elections; consultation; grassroots
democracy; minority nationalities policy; rule of law; Communist Party leadership; and …

Given outside observers' fragmentary knowledge of contemporary China, Yu's book is both
ambitious and helpful in providing a systematic, inclusive and wellbalanced outline of post …

In the course of their modern history, the Chinese people have waged unre-lenting struggles
and made arduous explorations in order to win their democratic rights. But only under the …