Rising class politics and its impact on China's path to democracy

Democratization

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-162

  Chen, An ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; COMMUNISM; DEMOCRACY; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL CHANGE; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 0038199709     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714000126     Document Type: Article

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