Intra-party democracy: A revisionist perspective from below

The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 192-209

  Baogang, He ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 37049005453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203099285     Document Type: Chapter

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2. See T. Saich and X. D. Yang, "Innovation in China's Local Governance: 'Open Recommendation and Selection'," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2003;
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29. I have discussed China's search for the mixed regime, see Baogang He, "The Theory and Practice of Chinese Grassroots Governance: Five Models," Japanese Journal of Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2003), pp. 293-314.
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