Legitimacy with Chinese characteristics: 'two increases, one reduction'

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 18, Issue 60, 2009, Pages 391-395

  Kennedy, John James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ELECTION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL CHANGE; RURAL POLITICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 70449672604     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560902770230     Document Type: Article

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2. This is similar to Melanie Manion's pocket of institutional change' within a single party system.
3. See Melanie Manion, 'How to assess village elections in China', Journal of Contemporary China 18(60), (June 2009).
4. Gunther Schubert, 'One-party rule and the question of legitimacy in contemporary China: preliminary thoughts on setting up a new research agenda', Journal of Contemporary China 17(54), (February 2008), pp. 191-204.
5. Also see Gunther Schubert, 'Studying "democratic" governance in contemporary China: looking at the village is not enough', Journal of Contemporary China 18(60), (June 2009)
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18. Björn Alpermann shows that a number of provincial level implementation regulations for the 1998 Organic Law focus on public accounting and transparency in village financial matters.
19. See Björn Alpermann, 'Institutionalizing village governance in China', Journal of Contemporary China 18(60), (June 2009).
20. Loren Brandt and Matthew A. Turner, 'The usefulness of imperfect elections: the case of village elections in rural China', Economic and Politics 19(3), (November 2007), pp. 453-479.