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“Orderly Political Participation” in China

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This chapter provides an in-depth examination of Chinese “orderly political participation” so as to develop an understanding of how political participation in China is developed, regulated, and governed, how various forms of political participation function, and the critical issues that political participation currently faces. It selects and examines the three official-sanctioned forms of political participation, that is, village elections, consultative and deliberative forums, and participatory budgeting (PB). It also discusses increasingly citizen-initiated political spaces or non-sanctioned forms of political participation. Finally it briefly investigates the interaction and conflict between the official and citizen forms of political participation and speculates on the future development of political participation in China.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In this section, I have used some material from He (2007).

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    The author’s interviews in Hangzhou and Shanghai in 2003 and 2005.

  3. 3.

    I was invited to a closed-door meeting to discuss these documents in 2010 in Beijing.

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  1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, VIC, Australia

    Baogang He

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  1. School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Jianxing Yu

  2. Department of Political Science, and Center for US-China Policy Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sujian Guo

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He, B. (2019). “Orderly Political Participation” in China. In: Yu, J., Guo, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2799-5_17

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