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Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots - Chinese Village Elections in Perspective (Hardcover): Gunter Schubert, Anna... Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots - Chinese Village Elections in Perspective (Hardcover)
Gunter Schubert, Anna L. Ahlers
R2,552 Discovery Miles 25 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China's political system. It draws on comparative fieldwork conducted in six villages in two counties in Jiangxi and Jilin Provinces and one district in Shenzhen between 2002 and 2005, producing data from some 140 in-depth interviews of villagers and local officials up to the prefectural level. The major objective of this book is as much a critical assessment of the research literature of Chinese village elections published over the last fifteen years as to sharpen the reader's sight for the scope and limits of this important reform to generate regime legitimacy in the local state, an issue which has so far been neglected in the study of Chinese village elections. It hence contributes to our understanding of the nexus between political participation and cadre accountability at the grassroots, and highlights a number of factors ensuring the persistence of one-party rule in contemporary China.

The Great Smog of China - A Short Event History of Air Pollution (Paperback): Anna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, Rune... The Great Smog of China - A Short Event History of Air Pollution (Paperback)
Anna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, Rune Svarverud
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems i - Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness (Paperback): Anna L. Ahlers,... Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems i - Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness (Paperback)
Anna L. Ahlers, Damien Krichewsky, Evelyn Moser, Rudolf Stichweh
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the radical novelty of modern polities in a functionally differentiated world society. Premodern states were at the apex of a stratified, hierarchical society. They dominated society and all its groups and strata. Modern polities have to be understood through the ecology of relations among different function systems. They have to find and incessantly redefine their place in society. They produce decisions that are collectively binding, but in preparing these decisions experience constraints and knowledge deficiencies that are related to the complexity of a functionally differentiated society. The book concentrates on six analytical perspectives that reflect how modern polities are embedded into 21st century society. These perspectives are: the concept of inclusion and the inclusion revolution constitutive of modern polities; the internal differentiation of polities that endows them with an unprecedented complexity; the fact that polities do not know anything about society and the ways in which they compensate for this; representation and responsiveness as strategies to reconnect with society; the self-restriction of some polities that brings about ever new autonomous expert organizations; the symmetrical rise of autocracies and democracies as the two modern variants of political regimes.

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