Mutual empowerment of state and peasantry: Grassroots democracy in rural China

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1431-1442

  Wang, Xu ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Asia; China; Democratization; Empowerment state; Peasantry

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; SELF-GOVERNMENT; STATE-PEASANT RELATIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 0031409905     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00047-8     Document Type: Article

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