Democratic development in China's urban communities

Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20000145
Title:
Democratic development in China's urban communities
Creator:
Ngeow, Chow Bing (Author)
Contributor:
Ogden, Suzanne (Advisor)
Horn, Denise M. (Denise Marie) (Committee member)
Hua, Shiping, 1956- (Committee member)
Publisher:
Boston, Massachusetts : Northeastern University, 2010
Date Accepted:
January 2010
Date Awarded:
May 2010
Type of resource:
Text
Genre:
Dissertations
Format:
electronic
Digital origin:
born digital
Abstract/Description:
Since mid-1990s, the Chinese government has been promoting a policy of community construction (shequ) in urban areas. One of the main focuses of this policy is to build up the democratic infrastructure and institutions at the grassroots level in the cities. As a result, political and institutional reforms to make grassroots governance more democratic have been experimented and implemented in many cities. Members of the residents' committee, the "mass-organization" entrusted to governance the communities (shequ), are now to be democratically elected. The administration of the communities has to adhere to the principles of democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision. The grassroots organs of the ruling Chinese Communist Party have to adapt to the democratic institutions, while non-governmental organizations, especially in the form of the homeowners' committee, also emerges as another channel for urban residents to participate in public affairs. The major aim of this study is to document and analyze these institutional designs and reforms. It also provides an interpretive perspective for these grassroots democratic reforms, arguing that these reforms embody a Chinese model of democratic development.
Subjects and keywords:
China's politics
Chinese communist party
civil society
community construction
democratic development
grassroots elections
Democracy - China
China - Politics and government
Political Science
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17760/d20000145
Permanent Link:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20000145
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