Building institutional rules and procedures: Village election in China

Policy Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Tan, Qingshan ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; RURAL POLITICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 3342939789     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:OLIC.0000035451.83055.15     Document Type: Article

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