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From Village Election to Village Deliberation in Rural China: Case Study of a Deliberative Democracy Experiment

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Village democracy in China has expanded from village elections to the institution of village deliberation. This transformation would necessarily involve a number of trial studies on village deliberation. The paper examines one village deliberative democracy experiment in Bianyu village, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province. It provides a basic background to Bianyu village, discusses the design of the experiment, and examines its outcomes. The paper concludes with an assessment of the prospects for village deliberative democracy in rural China.

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  1. cf. Lilly Tsai [8]

  2. Ibid.

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

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The author would like to express sincere thanks for the various assistance from Wang Chunguang, David Kelly, Matt Hood, Xu Qunfens, and Zhao Y. Vista.

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He, B. From Village Election to Village Deliberation in Rural China: Case Study of a Deliberative Democracy Experiment. J OF CHIN POLIT SCI 19, 133–150 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-014-9286-2

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