Anna Ahlers: 3 books
Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China
New Socialist Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were increasingly seen as posing a manifest threat to social harmony and economic and political stability. At that time the term "three...
Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots
Chinese Village Elections in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
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...
Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...